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bathroom to refresh him, instead of a wooden hut, hastily built 

 and full of leaks. The Superintendents' bungalows on most estates 

 give the impression that the rubber industry is in a parlous state, 

 instead of one of the most, if not the most, profitable industn 

 in tropical agriculture. 



The lines, as a general rule, are relatively more comfortable 

 than the Superintendents' houses. Most of them are raised some 

 5 or 6 feet from the ground, and as the space underneath is used 

 by the coolies for their cooking operations the whole of the rooms 



constantly fumigated or insects driven away. 



An interesting and instructive article on coolie sanitation and 

 tne methods to be adopted in various coolie diseases to which is 

 appended plans for lines has been prepared by Dr. Gerrard for 

 the Agricultural Bulletin." It will be useful to planters in Malaya 

 3S a han dbook to the medical treatment of estate coolies. 



Rubber Statistics. Malaya, up to the 

 3ist December, 1906. 



Dry Rubber Per Tree. 



»H k A f Vera S e amount of dry rubber extracted per tn 

 a / e d by the fi gures in the tables gives 1 lb. ~ n* „,r tree 

 e trees in the Federated Malay State 

 g th!" 20glVea - Ood dealr 

 )f Paction. 



Federated 



aW A !u the end of !9Q5 there were in the Federated Malay States 

 • °ut 40,000 acres planted with rubber. At the close of 

 m °re than 85,000 acres.- Between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 

 ing of last vear, and on the 1st Ja 



ic 6 v. is a high one, and if it 

 very large margin of profit over expenses 



r States Rubber Progress. 



tr <*S ; 



ear, anu on uie xsi j°" u "v 

 ions in —»" w »wjo. The output of dry rubber was about 

 reason thV ?" d in J 9° 6 3«5 tons, three times as much 



* while the 



acreage h; 



sm'ore thandoubled the number 



