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COCO-NUT CULTIVATION IN 

 MALAYA. 



MR. T. C. NOCH, Acting Inspector of Coco- 

 nut Plantations, includes the following remarks 

 in his report on coco-nut plantations, in the 

 annual report of the Director of Agriculture, 

 Federated Malay States, for the year 1910 : 



" It seems to have dawned upon the 

 Europeans at last, now so much interested in 

 rubber, that it would be well to have two 

 strings to their bow ; and where could be 

 found, considering the very favourable con- 

 ditions under which coco-nuts grow on the flat 

 alluvial land near the coast, a safer or sounder 

 investment than the cultivation of the ' Consols 

 of the East ' ? 



" The area under coco-nuts in the Federated 

 Malay States, at the end of 1910, I estimate, 

 approximately, at 130,344 acres, and I value 

 the whole at $29,000,000 = $222^ per acre 

 ($i = 2s. 4d.). White ants destroyed about 

 100 trees in the Lower Perak district, whilst 

 squirrels and pigs do a good deal of damage. 

 In the State of Negri Sembilan bears and 

 squirrels were very destructive, the same as in 

 previous years. In Selangor a caterpillar pest 

 made its appearance, but although many of 



