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those who have clearings along a jungle edge know what damage such 

 animals can do. 



Planting. The use of basket plants and shading with cadjans adds 

 about Rs. 5 to Rs. 6 per acre to the cost of planting ; but results prove 

 that this extra expense is well repaid. 



Weeding. This is an item which may very easily exceed the estimate 

 I have given as regards chena lands. The first year's weeding should 

 not, however, in any case cost over Rs. 3 per acre per month, say Rs. 36 

 per acre for the year for the weediest chena lands. It may cost this 

 unless labour is very plentiful. From fourth year the weeding should 

 be reduced in either forest or chena land clearings to an average of 

 7 5 cents per acre. 



Superintendence. Has been estimated for on the supposition that 

 the clearing is being looked after by the manager of an adjoining pro- 

 perty. In the case of an estate of considerable acreage being con- 

 cerned, this item would be chargeable at Rs. 10 per acre per annum 

 all through. 



Buildings. I make no estimate for factory, superintendent's bungalow, 

 &c., though both would be required. Superintendent's bungalow could 

 be built for about Rs. 2,000. It is useless at the present stage of the 

 industry to make an estimate for a factory, as the invention of suitable 

 machinery, which is sure to follow during the next year or two, will 

 revolutionise the curing of rubber. It would probably be safe, however, 

 to allow at the rate of Rs. 50 per acre as the cost of the building only. 



Coast advances I have charged as an ordinary item of expenditure. 

 It is only fair to do so, as it is an item which, though slightly varying 

 in amount, is never absent, and is just as really a charge on the estate 

 as superintendence or any other item, and should be recognised as 

 such. The amount, Rs. 2,400, would probably be exceeded from and 

 after the sixth year on tapping operations commencing. 



E. GORDON REEVES. 

 WILTSHIRE, MATALE, 

 lOt/t October 1905. 



II. RUBBER IN MALAY PENINSULA. 



Subjoined is Mr Arden's estimate applicable to a plantation 

 in the Malay Peninsula : * 



* Report on Hevea brasiliemis in the Malay Peninsula. 



