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COFFEE AS A CATCHCROP WITH RUBBER. 
Golden Hope State Klang 27th, February 1909. 
Dear Sir, 
The following may be of some interest to an of your rea'ders who 
may have planted coffee as a catchcrop with rubber or planted rubber 
through old coffee in alluvial soil. 
They are figures giving result of the working for year 1908 on this 
estate. 
Acreage 
Planted 
with 
Coffee 
10X10 
Inter planted 
WITH 
Para Rubber 
30X15 
Field of 
Clean Coffee 
Per Acre 
1908 
7 ~j 
30 
13 Years ago 
April 1905 
5i piculs. 
35 
do. 
do. 
3i „ 
35 
do. 
do. 
5f „ 
33 
do. 
do. 
6f „ 
27 
12i Years ago 
not interplanted 
10 „ 
152 
11 ,, average 
interplanted Apr. 03.1 
1 1* „ 
I have Ac., your obedient servant, 
Edmond B. Prior. 
