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Tapioca in the Province seemed at the beginning of 1913 to be 

 '-extending as it had done in 1912, in spite of a falling price; but the 

 price continued to fall and went so far as to make harvesting unpro- 

 fitable. Such a large drop is rather calamitous, occurring within the 

 growth of one crop, and the more so as the Province is not only 

 not at the stage in its rubber plantations when catch crops can be 

 generally dispensed with, but has a pig industry dependent largely 

 -on the tapioca refuse. 



The following is the acreage returned under Tapioca : — 



1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 



been 



The excess of exports over imports of tapioca from Penang have 



The excess of exports over imports, or the reverse, of tapioca 

 flour and refuse from Penang have been : — 



Flour. 



Refuse. 



So that latterly Penang and the Province Wellesley have used up 

 most, if not all, of the refuse available from the tapioca manufacture. — 

 Moreover the flour, the import of which has never been below 30,000 

 pikuls per annum, has been the more and more worked up into 

 products for human consumption, thereby liberating more and more 

 .refuse for local use. 



