CHAPTER XV 

 THE MALAY PENINSULA Continued 



'Organization of rubber estates Catch crops Tapping 

 Housing accommodation Discipline ( Dietary Educational 

 facilities Yield of trees Cost of production Analysis of expen- 

 ditureCharges after shipment " All in" costs Past and future 

 production-fFuture development. 



THE organization of a rubber estate in the Malay 

 Peninsula offers no very serious difficulties to an 

 experienced planter. If Government forest land is 

 required, an application for the area in question is 

 submitted to the authorities, and this request will be 

 attended to without undue delay. The land is then 

 surveyed and the fees charged, according to the scale 

 set out in the Land Enactment Act. If the area 

 chosen lies low and near the water-level, under condi- 

 tions such as exist in sections in Malacca, Klang, Teluk 

 Anson, Province Wellesley, and other districts, it must 

 be drained before the timber is felled, otherwise the 

 debris after felling and lopping will not burn. On the 

 undulating forest lands away from the seaboard this 

 preliminary draining work is unnecessary. 



Contractors for felling and cleaning the requisite 

 acreage can be engaged without difficulty, Malay labour 

 doing this work most effectively at a cost of from 

 12 to 15 dollars per acre for felling and lopping, 

 and 7J dollars per acre for the subsequent cleaning 

 up. After the burn has taken place, the work of lining 



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