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Cloves, however, have latterly had fai 

 has been : — 



[y good ytars, so that trade 



Penang and the Province consume considerably more pepper 

 than the little that they produce. 



The area under rice has been returned as follows :- 



1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 



48.500 

 49.351 



49-351 

 49,368 

 48,478 

 44,456 

 45,808 

 46,274 

 46,138 

 45,200 

 44.950 

 45,977 



Penang. 

 7,700 

 7,690 

 7,660 

 7,660 

 7,650 

 7,450 

 7,530 

 7,567 

 7,120 



6,129 

 6.320 



6,620 



The crop of 1912-1913 was not good; but the crop of 1913- 

 1914 proved excellent. 



Dindings. 



The rubber estates in the Dindings fall into two divisions: one is 

 constituted by the Sandycroft Estate alone; the other consists of 

 four smaller estates near the Lumut river. Sandycroft is celebrated 

 for the large yields that some of its trees used to give, and its land with- 

 in the Dindings is all planted up. The other estates are extending 

 still. They have land to the extent of 6,079 acres, and have planted 

 55 per cent, of it. 



One of these estates has been depending for development on the 

 profit of tapioca as a catch crop ; and that is failing it now. Tapping 

 of young trees was started in 1912 on one estate, but stopped again 

 when price of rubber fell. 



Coconut-groves, land under fruit trees, and garden patches 

 make up about 6,500 acres, nearly half of which is the young, and pro- 

 mising Din iings Coconut Company's Estate on the Bruas river. The 

 seed nuts came from Penang. 



