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Rubber Statistics, Malaya, up to the 31st December, 1908. 



No. of estates ••• 

 Acreage in posses- 

 sion. 



Acreage planted up 

 to 31st Decem- 

 ber, 1908 



Acreage planted 

 during 1908 ••• 



No. of trees plant 

 ed up to 3 1st De- 

 cember, 1908 ••• 



Federated. 

 Malay States 



300 

 455,596 



168,018 

 41,813 



26,165,3107,743,322 



Straits 

 Settlements 

 and Kedah. 



81 



158,553 



50,121 

 7,255 



Johore. 



27 



127,959 



20,944 

 10,818 



3,224,388 



Kelantan. 



9 



20,300 



Total. 



417 



762,408 



2,025 | 241,138 

 750 ! 60,636 



307,000 



37,440,020 



Rubber in Federated Malay States. 



The advance of rubber planting in the Native States 

 was as rapid in 1908 as in 1907 : the drop in prices not caus- 

 ing" the cessation in opening up and planting that some 

 expected; 41,813 acres were planted during the year as 

 compared with 40,743 in 1907, an increase of 33 per cent., 

 a third more than the total acreage. 



On the 31st December, 1908, there were 168,048 acres 

 of rubber, containing 26,165,310 trees, in the Federated 

 Malay States, as against 126,235 acres and 19,628,957 trees 

 on the same date of the previous year. 



Within the last ten years the acreage of rubber lias 

 increased 100 times, and it has practically doubled during 

 the last two years. 



The output of dry rubber increased by 60 per cent.: 

 3,190,000 lbs., or 1,425 tons, as against 1,980,000 lbs., or 

 885 tons, in 1907. These figures of output are slightly 

 higher than those given by the Commissioner of Trade and 

 Customs of the amount of rubber exported; this is due to 

 the fact that rubber recorded as produced on the estate be- 

 fore the 31st December is exported later and comes into the 

 export returns for the following year. 



There is no better proof at the present time of the 

 energy and grit of the British planter in the tropics than 

 the excellent manner in which this large acreage of rubber 

 in the Federated Malay States has been felled, cleared and 

 planted, and is now in healthy and vigorous condition, and 

 where old enough yielding handsome profits. Great credit 

 is due to the managers of rubber estates and their assis- 



