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It will not, I think, be denied that for a sound, solid and 
what may fairly be regarded as a safe remunerative investment 
(though quite out of range of the anticipated large profits from 
Para rubber) coconuts, as a tropical product, are hard to beat, and 
for this reason alone their culture might well be fostered. 
I have already alluded to the value of the coconut industry 
in the States where the soil and climate are so eminently suited, 
but for the more rapid development of the cultivation, it is, I 
consider, really necessary thajt Government should do all they can 
to encourage Europeans to interest themselves in it and so attract 
influence and home capital for the p’urpose. 
On this account it is most advisable that for land given out 
for coconut cultivation the old rate of $i per acre for quit-rent be 
reverted to. I am assured that at this rate many applications 
will immediately be made by the Europeans to take up land for 
planting coconuts, while I am led to believe that the more pros- 
perous of the native community, who are in a financial position to 
take up and cultivate larger areas thaii 10-acre blocks, would do 
so to some extent if the above change is effected. 
The most favourable sites for cotonuts undoubtedly are in 
proximity to the Coasts all along Perak and Selangor, and I feel 
sure it would be a wise policy for Government to reserve these 
areas as far as possible for coconut planting, there being no real 
necessity to alienate this land for rubber cultivation, as there is 
plenty of land equally suitable for rubber (but not for coconuts) 
in abundance in other parts of the States. 
Under these more favourable conditions I feel confident that 
a much increased area must come under coconut cultivation, 
year by year, than would otherwise be* the case, and that with a 
more extensive acreage perhaps before long some other important 
interests of the industry, as exemplified in Ceylon, may be 
introduced into the States. 
L. C. BROWN, 
Inspector of Coconut Plantations , F.M.S. 
REPORT OF GOVERNMENT ENTOMOLOGIST 
FOR THE YEAR 1906. 
I assumed the duties of this office on 15th September, 1906. 
As part of these three months has been 11 e cess aril} • occupied in 
arranging the laboratory and ascertaining the conditions under 
which work has to be conducted, the report must necessarily be 
very brief. A few excursions of two or three days duration have 
been made on agricultural work. The results, such as could be 
obtained in two short trips, are given below. 
