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tants for carrying out their varied and arduous duties, 

 under conditions frequently unfavourable, with so much 

 success. 



Rubber Statistics, Federated Malay States, up to the 

 31st December, 1908. 





Sclangor. 



Perak. 



Negri 

 Sembilan 



Pahang. 



Total. 



No. of Estates 



130 



114 



42 



14 



300 



Acreage in possession 



215,509 



140,675 



79,625 



19,787 



455,596 



Acreage planted up to the 31st 













December, 1908 



82,246 



56,706 



27,305 



i,79i 



168,048 



Acreage planted during 1908 



20,694 



10,539 



9,649 



931 



41,813 



No. of trees planted up to the 













31st December, 1908 



12,499,331 



8,560,321 



4,923,745 



181,913 



26,165,310 



Comparative Tables of Rubber Acreages and Trees in 

 Malaya, 1907 and 1908. 



State. 



Kubber acreages. 



No. of trees. 



1907. 



1908. 



1907. 



1908. 



•/ fSelangor 

 _• 1 Perak 



~| Negri Sembilan 

 £ \ Pahang .... 

 qq ( Malacca . . 

 x I Province Wellesley 

 .1 ohore 

 Kelantan 



Total 



61,552 

 46,167 

 17,656 

 860 

 36,946 

 5,920 

 10,126 



82,246 

 56,706 

 27,305 



i,79i 

 41,324 



8,797 

 20,944 



2,025 



9,648,093 

 6,648,957 

 3,165,388 



166,590 

 6,019,940 



767,276 

 1,142,196 



12,499.331 

 8,560,321 

 4,923,745 



181,913 

 6,556,792 

 1,186,530 

 3,224,388 



307,000 



179,227 



241,138 



27.558,440 



37,440,020 



In Province Wellesley is included two estates in Singapore, eight estates in 

 Peneng and five estates in Kedah. These figures are approximate. 



Yields of Dry Rubber per Tree. 



It is difficult to decide whether it is better to record 

 yields per acre or per tree ; both methods are in some ways 

 misleading. The yields having been given in my last re- 

 port per tree this seems to me to be the better way to con- 

 tinue. " 



The average yield per tapped tree all over the Penin- 

 sula has risen from 1 lb. 12 ozs. to 1 lb. 15^ ozs., an increase 

 of 11 per cent. Considering that the majority of the trees 

 tapped are in their first year of bearing this is a most 

 encouraging figure, and shows that the yields estimated in 

 looking forward to the future production of rubber trees 

 have, as a rule, been extremely moderate if not unneces- 

 sarily small. 



