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The acreage under coffee has again considerably decreased 

 and only a few acres have been planted up. A large proportion 

 of coffee acreage has been interplanted with rubber, the former 

 being gradually cut out. 



Prices have remained fairly satisfactory, and were it not for 

 the fact that rubber is considered to the exclusion of all other 

 cultivations, coffee would be increasing instead of gradually being 

 wiped out. Leaf disease on coffee is still with us, and there is 

 httle hope that while coffee remains this pest will cease, but the 

 crops have not been very seriously affected by them. The Native 

 States has produced 22,291 cwts. of coffee from 9,708 acres, an 

 average of about 2\ cwts. per acre, but this acreage includes a 

 K'reat deal of coffee which is growing under rubber of three years 

 and upwards and consequently gives little or no crop. Selangor 

 has nearly four-fifths of the coffee acreage, and the crops in that 

 State work out at an average of a little under 3 cwts. per acre. 



Rubber. 



, The P ositi °n of the rubber planting industry in Malaya at 

 the end of 1906 compared with that at the end of the previous 

 year is remarkable but not unexpected. 



In December, Ig o 5 , the total acreage of rubber planted in the 

 Peninsula was probably less than 50,000 acres ; in December, 

 1900, it was 99,230, practically during the year 1906 the acreage 

 Nas doubled. The number of the trees,' which was probablj 

 under 7,000,000, is now 12,980,756. The output of dry rubber, 

 which was about 150 tons in iqos was in 1906, 412 tonS ' " 

 increase of nearly three times. 



. ™ s resu lt has not been achieved without strenuous effort, 

 and that such an acreage has been felled, cleared hntd n 

 Planted, and with a very few exceptions is now showing a vigour 

 °us growth of healthy rubber trees, is a tribute to the zeal and 

 energy f a body of about 100 planters. 



, Th K, C ° nd u tions under which new land is opened lar e« *j 

 favourable either to vigourous health or enjoyment of 



ovPrr\ a ^ u the u exceIlent work of these P ioneers u 1S a P h0 will 

 overlooked by the proprietors and shareholders at home w» 

 ultimately benefit by it. I n this connection I may be allowed 

 to su g t that as the heaUh of bQth master and coohe is 

 mount importance in the profitable running of an « s ** JJo* 

 expended in building comfortable and even luxurious bung* 

 and lines is a sound investment. The Superintendent >s * 

 " 1 's health if when he finished his days" ble 



has a cool, 



nry and water-tight bungalow 



