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CROP RETURNS IN 1908. 



Vallambrosa.— Mr. H. Case, Acting Mana- 

 ger, Vallambrosa Rubber Co., Ltd., send us 

 the following crop returns: — Crop 1908-1909: 

 December, 32,242 lb. ; previously, 169,731 lb.; 

 total 201,973 lb. At corresponding period last 

 year 104,814 lb. 



Malacca Rubber Plantations.— Mr. J. H. 

 Jackson, Managing Director, Malacca Rubber 

 Plantations, Ltd., informs us that the output 

 of dry rubber for December was 8,500 lb. 

 making a total for the year of over 40,000 lb. 

 as against an estimate of 30,000 lb. 



Inch Kenneth.— The output of, dry rubber 

 from Inch Kenneth Rubber Estates, Ltd., for 

 December was 3,115 lb. 



Linugi Plantations.— The output of rubber 

 from the Linggi Plantations last month was 

 33,000 lb., making a total for 12 months of 

 271,500 lb.— Malay Mail, Jan. 5. 



Balgownie Rubber.— The harvest on Bal- 

 gownie estate for December according to the 

 manager's report was 4,178 lb. dry rubber. 

 F. Press, Jan. 6. 



Kuala Lumpur Rubber. — The yield of dry 

 rubber during December was 17,1731b., making 

 for the first six months of the company's finan- 

 cial year a total of 92,888 lb. The estimate made 

 in June last for the whole of the year ending 

 June 30, 1909, was 107,000 lb. 



Sumatra Para Rubber Plantations. — The 

 manager advises an output of 5,940 lb. dry 

 rubber from the company's property for the 

 month of December. 



Damansara (Selangor) Rubber.— The crop 

 of rubber for the twelve months ended Decem- 

 ber 31 last is 124,710 lb. against 57,376 lb. for 

 the year 1907. 



Bandarapola Ceylon.— A cablegram received 

 from the manager in Ceylon gives the total 

 crop figures for the season just closed as : Tea, 

 747.000 lb.; cocoa, 489 cwt. 



Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates.— The 

 crop of rubber secured in December amounts 

 to 16,819 lb; making the total crop for the year 

 to December 31,111,585 lb. dry rubber, com- 

 pared with 63,615 lb. in the corresponding 

 period.— H & C Mail, Jan. 8. 



Anglo-Malay. — Messrs Harrisons and Cros- 

 field inform us that the output of the Anglo- 

 Malay Rubber Co. Ltd., for December was 34,863 

 lb. dry rubber. The total output for the year is 

 349,450 lb., against an estimate of 335,000 lb. 

 — Malay Mail, Jan. 6. 



United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber.— The 

 accounts for the fifteen months ended August 

 31 show a net profit of £8,434. The directors 

 propose to write off £2,196 to depreciation, &c, 

 and reduction of development expenses, and 

 recommend a dividend of 5 per cert, carrying 

 forward £4,984. 



Sumatra Rubber.— The manager estimates 

 that the revenue from coffee during the current 

 year will be more than sufficient to meet the es- 

 tate expenditure. A census of the rubber tiees 

 taken by the manager is reported by him to show 

 a total at May 31, 1908, of 173,079. Since the 



opened land was surveyed in November, 1907, 

 66 additional acres have been opened and 

 planted, making the total area opened and 

 plantod at May 31 last 1,811 acres. It is in- 

 tended to bring the amount up to 2,100 

 acres during the current financial year. The 

 growth of both the rubber and the coffee 

 is satisfactory. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN THE WORLD. 



Perak. — We have just received a letter dated 

 3rd Jan., 1909, fromTaiping, Perak, in which the 

 writer states :— The growth of Rubber is very 

 rapid. Applications for large areas of land for 

 Rubber are still coming in to Government. A 

 Mr. Ross, who has already 800 acres planted, is 

 applying for another 600. — Cor. 



Borneo. — As a proof how eminently suitable 

 British North Borneo is for the cultivation of 

 Para rubber, it is stated that sixty trees, about 6£ 

 years old, in the Government Experimental 

 Gardens at Tenom, on the railway, produced 

 last year 107 lb. of rubber, or an average of about 

 1| lb. per tree. — H & C Mail, Jan. 8. 



In Java and Sumatra.— Rubber Cultivation 

 is expected to show considerable development in 

 the future. At the present time it is estimated 

 that in the Netherlands East Indies over 87,500 

 acres are devoted to rubber, of which 57,000 acres 

 are situated in Java. Many of the old plantations 

 consist of Ficus elastica, but latterly the Para tree 

 has been extensively planted. — H& C Mail, Jan. 8. 



South Acheen.— In the Tamiang district, South 

 Acheen, rubber cultivation is going ahead so far as 

 labour difficulties will allow. The planters freely 

 avail themselves of Achinese labourers. They are 

 found to be far preferable to Malays, who will 

 not work on the fields if they can help it, so long 

 as fishing gives them a means of livelihood. The 

 Governor of Acheen, who lately visited the dis- 

 trict, was mucti struck by seeing how Achinese 

 could be utilised for estate labour, and promised 

 to do his best to open up Tamiang for planters. 

 — Straits Times, Jan. 23. 



A Bird's Eye View of Rubber Planting. — 

 Anyone travelling on the branch of the E M S R 

 which connects Kuala Lumpur with Port 

 Swettenham has been able during the last few 

 years to observe from his seat in the railway 

 carriage the different stages through which a 

 rubber estate passes from the clearing of the 

 virgin jungle to the tapping of the established 

 trees. In addition, says a correspondent, the 

 traveller can now see in practice several exam- 

 ples of the clean weeding and weed exterminator 

 theories, some estates with nothing but bare 

 earth under the trees, others with crotalaria and 

 others with passionflower. — Malay Mail, Jan. 18. 



Rubber in Trinidad.— A gentleman who was 

 receutly in Trinidad and proposes to return with 

 a view to settlement in the colony, writes from 

 Mexico, where he was staying on a rubber estate 

 of 400,000 trees as follows to a Trinidad paper : 

 — " I thought it might interest you to know 

 that the ten-years-old Rubber Trees (Castilloa 

 elastica) here are not larger if so large as those 

 of four years old of which I took photographs 



