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and unsatisfactory condition when I arrived the matter appeared 

 utterly hopeless but now some of them are keeping their plantations 

 better and with the conditions it was desired at the recent Residents' 

 Conference in Taiping to impose on newly alienated land I shall 

 endeavour during the current year to do what I can to give them 

 some hints on the subject. My staff too without necessarily inter- 

 fering with their present work might on their rounds perhaps, 

 under my instructions, render some assistance in teaching the 

 natives something about this. 



7. Alluding to para. 8 of Mr. Arden's letter of 19th September, 

 1903, I believe many of the apparently abandoned coffee lands, 

 where there are a few of the coffee trees still to be seen, might be 

 well worth recultivating by the natives ; the ground would not be 

 very difficult to clean, many of the coffee trees could I think be 

 brought into bearing and the sale of the product go a long way to- 

 wards expense of upkeep. Coconuts and other catch crops could 

 also be planted where the useless coffee trees have to be dugout and 

 in other vacant spaces. 



8. In conclusion my further suggestion and one 1 strongly re- 

 commend, is that a system of rewards for some time at least, be 

 introduced and prizes given for well kept plantations as an induce- 

 ment to the natives to take more interest in cultivation generally. 



I have the honour to be, 



Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



L. C. BROWN, 



Inspector of Coconut Trees, 



F. M. S. 



To, 



The Federal Secretary, F. M. S> 

 Kuala Lumpur. 



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NOTE ON JELUTONG 



Mr. Basagoiti, (Assistant Conservator for Selangor) in a report 

 states that at L T lu Langat he found certain Malay rubber collectors, 

 who said that they mixed Jelutong Getah with the bark juice of the 

 Pagarana (Pagar Anak tree) to harden it. This juice is also say 

 they used by fishermen for dyeing nets 



The Pagar Anak tree is Ixonanthes icosandra,oi the order Lines. 



It is a very common tree rarely of large size usually about 30 feet 

 tail, with corymbs of petatlcss green flowers, and small sticky cap- 

 sules. 



