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30. It is well recognized that the country Malays will not settle Malays will 
permanently unless they can plant padi, and there are places in u 
Pahang where inhabited fruit plantations exist, but where no wet }^ nd 
padi fields or plough lands are within reach. Adjoining such 
places, which are usually in hilly country, will be found consider- 
able tracts of secondary jungle of which portions have been culti- 
vated annually for many years, and the periodical cultivation of 
these areas entails absolutely no destruction of valuable timber. 
31. The area of hill padi under cultivation throughout the State Area of hill 
is estimated at 5,420 acres, or less than 81 square miles. The land ^tnlTareaof 
used for this purpose is allowed to grow up in jungle for a period sccon dary 
of from 4 to 7 years after each crop, and can be planted on an forest 
average once in six years. available. 
To provide a sufficient reserve to allow the land a rest of five 
years after each clearing the area necessary to supply the present 
demand would be 32,520 acres, or under 51 square, miles, repre- 
senting about i/28oth of the area of the whole State, which ij 
according to the latest estimate over 14,000 square miles in extent 
These figures afford a practical illustration of the true state o. 
affairs, and 1 am quite sate in stating that a very great deal more 
than 51 square miles of secondary jungle, which was originally 
cleared for padi planting long before British protection was intro- 
duced, is available, and this land carries no valuable timber. 
32. Sakais, as Mr. TOWNLEY states, generally — though not Damage to 
always — clear virgin forest and so destroy a good deal of the more 
valuable kinds of timber ; but, they usually take more than one ; n g S 
crop of maize, yams and other produce off the land before aban- 
doning it, and their clearings are almost, without exception, in 
such inaccessible places that the timber destroyed would not, at 
any rate for a great number of years, find its way to the market 
even if it were preserved. 
Definite instructions have been issued to the District Officers to 
refuse to issue licences to Malays for the temporary cultivation of 
virgin forest, but the Government is not at present in a position 
to successfully regulate the planting operations of these hill tribes 
and the damage done by them is not, I think, sufficient to justify 
our interference. 
EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF Mr. R. DERRY, 
SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PLANTA- 
TIONS, PERAK, FOR THE YEAR 1900. 
Para Rubber {Hevea braziliensis). 
The result of a parcel of this rubber sent to London for sale 
was received early in the year, all the best quality rubber, 327 lbs., 
sold at the rate of 3 10 </. per lb , and the scrap, 33 lbs., at 2s. 6d 
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