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experiments into order. It does not take long under Malayan 
conditions for an experimental, or indeed any, planting to get over- 
grown with weeds. 
The tapping experiments started at Kuala Lumpur in 1909 were 
continued. The result for the first year’s work are being collected 
and arranged and will be published in due course. These experi- 
ments were on too small a scale to form a reliable guide to tapping 
on plantations, owing to the large individual variations in yield 
among rubber trees, but they will serve to indicate the lines on which 
future experiments may be carried out. About four hundred trees 
planted in 1906 will be ready for tapping next year. 
The experiment in growing Para rubber at varying elevations on 
Gunong Angsi in Negri Sembilan has been kept in order. Though 
all the trees are in good condition, those at the higher plots show 
distinctly the retarding influence of elevation on growth. A fair 
proportion of the trees in plots 1 and 3, planted in 1905, will be ready 
for tapping in 1911. This experiment will probably give interesting 
results for several years to come. 
The camphor experiments at Batu Tiga and Kuala Lumpur 
were kept in order and the trees have made good growth at both 
places. No distillations were made during the year, so that the 
yield of distilled camphor per acre cannot yet be given. It, therefore 
still remains to be proved whether this cultivation will give a profit- 
able return in Malaya. 
Further details of the experimental work are given in the reports 
of the Superintendent of Government Plantations and Superintendent 
of Government Plantations, Perak, which are appended. 
I attach also reports by the Acting Inspector of Coconut Planta-. 
tions, Government Entomologist and Mycologist. The Agricultural 
Chemist was attached for such a brief period, during part of which he 
was on leave, that he was only able to carry on routine work and 
plan future investigations. 
The following bulletins were issued during the year : 
Bulletin No. 7. Coffee Robust, 1, by W. J. Gallagher. 
8. The Cultivation and Care of the Para Rub- 
ber Tree (in Malay). 
10. A Lecture on the Para Rubber Tree, by 
W. J. Gallagher. 
„ 11. Coconut Cultivation, by L. C. Brown. 
Two others are in course of preparation. 
The tables of Agricultural Statistics for the whole of Malaya are 
appended. These are substantially complete with the exception of 
those for Malacca, which as last year are not reliable owing to the 
number of estates which di 1 not fill in the forms issued by the 
depar,ment - L. Lewton-brain, 
Director of Agriculture, F.M.S. 
