400 



The average yield of tapped trees in Negri Sembilan 

 amounted too lbs. 24 ozs., which, being the average of nearly 

 one million trees, is an extraordinarily high figure. This 

 State has much higher yields per tree because the propor- 

 tion of trees in their first tapping period is much less than 

 in the other States, but this high figure is interesting as 

 pointing to the averages which may be looked for in trees 

 after two or three years tapping. 



An interesting tapping experiment with eight 17-year 

 old trees growing round the churchyard at Parit Buntar, 

 in the Krian District of Perak, has given after one year's 

 tapping every other day an average of 28-J lbs. of dry 

 rubber per tree. The average girth of the trees was 54.87 

 inches at three feet from the ground, and they had been 

 growing in un weeded land containing lalang and other 

 grasses. 



Comparative Tables or Bubbeb Crops, Malaya, 

 1907 and 1908. 



State. 



No. of trees 

 tapped. 



Rubber yield?. 



A vera ge yield 

 per tree. 



1007. 



1908. 



1 



1907. 1908. 



1907. 



1908. 



■ ( Selangor 



2 \ Perak 



§2 1 Negri Sembilan ... 



S»h" (.Pahang 



05 (Malacca 



^2 \ Province Wellesley 



Jo h ore 



Kelantan 



772,656 

 132,556 

 240,401 



12,455 

 48,000 

 94,159 



1,172.383 

 251,613 

 306,376 



56,846 

 65.100 

 101,772 



lbs. 



1,131,086 

 272,804 

 586,864 



23,490 

 82,131 

 182,495 



lbs. 



\ 



1.846,384 

 383,073 

 963,253 

 ... 

 52,980 

 92,600 

 201,632 



lbs. ozs. 



2 I * 

 2 7 



1 14 

 1 11 

 1 15 



lbs. ozs. 



1 9 1 

 1 8 J 



3 2 | 



1 15| 



Total ... 



1,300,227 



1,954,090 



2,278,870 



3,539,922 







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

 Pcnang, and five estates in Kedah. 



The Passing of Ficus elastic^. 



Four years ago the question of the relative advantages 

 of planting H ev ea braziliensis (Para rubber), or Ficus das- 

 tica (liambong), was considered an open one, and the 

 Fact that the latter was a native tree and grow freely in 

 Malaya induced some to prefer it to the Brazilian plant. 



