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experiments into order. It does not take long under Malayan 

 conditions for an experimental, or indeed any, planting to get over- 

 grown with weeds. 



The tapping experiments started at Kuala Lumpur in 1909 were 

 continued. The result for the first year's work are being collected 

 and arranged and will be published in due course. These experi- 

 ments were on too small a scale to form a reliable guide to tapping 

 on plantations, owing to the large individual variations in yield 

 among rubber trees, but they will serve to indicate the lines on which 

 future experiments may be carried out. About four hundred trees 

 planted in 1906 will be ready for tapping next year. 



The experiment in growing Para rubber at varying elevations on 

 Gunong Angsi in Negri Sembilan has been kept in order. Though 

 all the trees are in good condition, those at the higher plots show 

 distinctly the retarding influence of elevation on growth. A fair 

 proportion of the trees in plots I and 3, planted in 1905, will be ready 

 for tapping in 1911. This experiment will probably give interesting 

 results for several years to come. 



The camphor experiments at Batu Tiga and Kuala Lumpur 

 were kept in order and the trees have made good growth at both 

 places. No distillations were made during the year, so that the 

 yield of distilled camphor per acre cannot yc t be given. It, therefore 

 still remains to be proved whether this culiivation will give a profit- 

 able return in Malaya. 



Further details of the experimental work are given in the reports 

 of the Superintendent of Government Plantations and Superintendent 

 of Government Plantations, Perak, which iwe aj)pended. 



I attach also reports by the Acting Inspector of Coconut Planta- 

 tions, Government Entomologist and Mycologist. The Agricultural 

 Chemist was attached for such a brief period, during part of which he 

 was on leave, that he Aras only able to cai ry on routine work and 

 plan future investigations. 



The following bulletins were issued during the year: 



Bulletin No. 7. Coffee Robusta, by W. J. Gallagher. 



„ 8. The Cultivation and Care of the Para Rub- 



ber Tree (in Malay). 



„ 10. A Lecture on the Para Rubber Tree, by 



W. J. Gallagher. 



„ II. Coconut Cultivation, by L. C. Brown. 



Two others are in course of preparation. 



The tables of Agricultural Statistics for the whole of Malaya are 

 appended. These are substantially complete with the exception of 

 those for Malacca, which as last year are not reliable owing to the 

 number of estates which dil not fill in the forms issued by the 

 department. 



L. Lewton-brain, 

 Director of Agriculture, F.M.S. 



