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Rubber Statistics, Malaya, up to the 31st December, 1908.. 
Federated, 
Malay states. 
Straits 
Settlements 
and Kedah. 
Johore. 
Kelantan. 
1 Total. 
No. of estates ... 
Acreage in posses- 
300 
81 
27 
9 
417 
1 
sion. 
Acreage planted up 
to 31st Decern- 
455,596 
158,553 
127,959 
20,300 
| 762,408 
I 
ber, 1908 
Acreage planted 
168,048 
50,121 
20,944 
2,025 
241,138 
during 1908 ... 
No. of trees plant 
ed up to 31st De- 
41,813 
7,255 ! 
10,81-6 
750| 
60,636 
cember, 1908 ... 26, 165,3 10 
7,743,322 3, 224, 388 
307,000 
37,440,020 
Rubber in Federated Malay States. 
The advance of rubber planting in the Native States 
was as rapid in 1908 as in 1907 : the drop in prices not caus- 
ing the cessation in opening up and planting that some 
expected; 41,813 acres were planted during the year as 
compared with 40,743 in 1907, an increase of 33 per cent., 
a third more than the total acreage. 
On the 31st December, 1908, there were 168,048 acres 
of rubber, containing 26,165,310 trees, in the Federated 
Malay States, as against 126,235 acres and 19,628,957 trees 
on the same date of the previous year. 
Within the last ten years the acreage of rubber has 
increased 100 times, and it has practically doubled during 
the last two years. 
The output of dry rubber increased by 60 per cent. : 
3,190,000 lbs., or 1,425 tons, as against 1,980,000 lbs., or 
885 tons, in 1907. These figures of output are slightly 
higher than those given by the Commissioner of Trade and 
Customs of the amount of rubber exported; this is due to 
the fact that rubber recorded as produced on the estate be- 
fore the 31st December is exported later and comes into the 
export returns for the following year. 
There is no better proof at the present time of the 
energy and grit of the British planter in the tropics than 
the excellent manner in which this large acreage of rubber 
m the Federated Malay States has been felled, cleared and 
planted, and is now in healthy and vigorous condition, and 
where old enough yielding handsome profits. Great credit 
is due to the managers of rubber estates and their assis- 
