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As to Sugar, the larger estates in Krian, the principal 
sugar-growing district, are reported to have had a fandy 
prosperous year ; but the fall in the price o sugar an e 
increased price of firewood appear to have borne hardly on 
the smaller estates. The value of the export from Krian 
for the last three years is as follows : 
igoo. Jgoi. J9 02 ' 
White Sugar ... # 373, °77 * 341.346 * 36|.954 
Brown ,? ... 94^97 M 3 #. 3 * 1,218,836 , 
Total 
* ho 1 5 -974 $1,479,668 #1,588,790 
Gutta Perch a . — As regards the important subject of State gutta- 
percha producing forests, the exploitation of which -w, 1 be a Gov- 
ernment monopoly, the Conservators report is \ei> 12 P ’ . , 
a handsome revenue may be expected in the future Hie natural 
reproduction of the gutta-percha yielding tree.s is satisfactory, and 
» considering that absolutely nothing has been done in the past to 
“ keep the regeneration of this species the abundance of young 
“growth is extremely fortunate and shows that gutta-percha ^trees 
“are better able to hold their own than any other lorest tree. 
Re-afforestation. — Steps are being taken to more systematically 
plant up deserted mining land with Ficus elastica, Casuarina 
other trees. 
REPORT ON THE SELANGOR EXPERIMENTAL 
PLANTATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1902. 
i. * * * * * 
2 Owing to the prolonged delay which occurred in acquiring 
Delay in acquir- the site for the Experimental Plantations, I regret 
ing the Site. that more progress cannot be shown for the year 
under review. The land kindly offered by Mr. BAILEY, on behalf 
of the Selangor Rubber Planting Syndicate, as a site for the Experi- 
mental Plantations, and recommended by me on the 27th March, 
,901, owing chiefly to legal technicalities which arose m reference 
to the transfer of the land, did not become available until nth 
September, 1902, and the serious delay which occurred, although 
unavoidable, was nevertheless regrettable. 
3. While negotiations for the transfer of this land to Govern- 
ment were proceeding, a small piece of Govern 
Nursery site. ment |and 3 j acres extent, lying off the Daman- 
sara road, was cleared with the intention of starting nurseries and 
°ettin CT together a collection of plants ready for planting as soon 
as the land was ready to receive them. In June permission was 
obtained to enlarge this nursery site, and an additional 7 acres ol 
iunrrle was felled, burned, bleared and the land drained, and later 
in "additional 63 acres was cleared. This will become part and 
parcel of the Experimental Plantations, from which it is divided 
by the Damansara river. 
