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Comparative Table of Rubber Acreages and Trees 

 in Malaya, 1906 and 1907. 



State. 



Rubber Acreage. 



No. of Trees. 



1906 



1907 



1906 



1907 



i[ 



CQ 

 GO 



r Selangor 

 Perak 



Negri Sembilan 

 .Pahang 

 'Malacca 



[ Province Wellesley . . . 

 Johore 



Total ... 



44,821 

 29,612 

 10,663 

 483 

 -28,784 

 4,738 

 4,362 



61,552 

 46,167 

 17,656 

 860 

 36,946 

 5,920 

 10,126 



5,477,390 

 3,990,462 

 1,196,150 

 81,000 

 *472,056 

 615,940 

 *492,906 



9,648,093 

 6,648,957 

 3,165,388 



166,590 

 6,019,940 



767,276 

 1,142,196 



123,463 



179,227 



12,325,904 



97,558,440 



In Province Wellesley is included one estate in Singapore, one estate in 

 Penang and one in Kedah. 



♦These figures are approximate. 



Ten Years of Rubber Planting in the Federated 

 Malay States. 



The history of rubber planting in the Federated Malay States is 

 probably unique in the rapidity with which a new cultivation, found to 

 be specially suited to the climate, has been established. 



The black columns show only the Federated Malay States acreages 

 and do not include Malacca, Johore and Province Wellesley. The pro- 

 gress of these places has, however, been approximately the same. 



In 1897, rubber estates were less than 350 acres in extent, 10 years 

 after they had increased by 360 times. In 1902 less than 7,500 acres 

 had been planted, five years after 17 times that amount was under 

 rubber. Nearly all of this land was virgin jungle previously to its being 

 planted with rubber, which had to be cleared before any planting opera- 

 tions could be begun. Nine-tenths of the whole acreage has been 

 cleared and planted by the younger generation of planters, who deserve 

 the greatest credit for the excellent way in which their work has been 

 carried out. The difficulties under which most of them have opened 

 up their estates have been many and various : bad conditions of health, 

 both for master and coolie, and steadily rising price of labour owing to 

 local conditions. 



Yields of Dry Rubber per Tree. 



The average amount of dry rubber is over the whole Peninsula 

 lib. 12ozs. per tapped tree, exactly the same figure as was recorded for 

 last year. This is most encouraging, as the number of trees which are 

 being tapped for the first time far exceeds those already tapped, especi- 

 ally in Selangor, where the average is 1 lb. 7 ozs. per tapped tree. 



Experiments are being carried on in various parts of the Peninsula : 

 Perak, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, in regard to yields of comparatively 

 old trees which have not previously been tapped. In Krian these ex- 

 periments have been carried out for nearly four months, only half the 



