899 
f an ts for carrying out their varied and arduous duties, 
under conditions frequently unfavourable, with so much 
success. 
Rubber Statistics, Federated Malay States, up to the 
31st December, 1908. 
1 
Selangor. 1 
Perak. 
Negri 
Sembilan 
I’abang. 
Total. 
No. of Estates* ... 
Acreage in possession 
Acreage planted up to the 3lst 
December, 1908 . . • 
Acreage planted during 1908 
No. of trees planted up to the 
31st December, 1908 
130 
215,509 
82,246 
20,694 
12 , 499,331 
114 
140,675 
56,706 
10,539 
8,560,321 
■ 42 
79,625 
27,305 
9,649 
4 , 923,745 
14 
19,787 - 
1,791 
931 
181,913 
300 
455,596 
168,048 
41,813 
26,165,310 
f — ~ 
Comparative Tables oe Rubber Acreages and Trees in 
Malaya, 1907 and 1908. 
State. 
Rubber acreages. 
No. of trees. 
1907 . 
1908. 
1907 - 
1908. 
-j (Selangor 
| Perak 
f', i Negri Sembilan 
ii I.Pahang . . 
aj ( Malacca 
y \ Province Wellesley 
.1 ohore 
Kelant an 
Total . . 
1 
61,552 
46,167 
17,656 
860 
36,946 
5,920 
10,126 
82,246 
56,706 
27,305 
i, 79 X 
4 b 324 
8,797 
20,944 
2,025 
9,648,093 
6 , 648,957 
3,16=1,388 
166,590 
6 , 019,940 
767,276 
1,142,196 
12 , 499,331 
8,560,321 
4 , 923,745 
181,913 
6 , 556,792 
1,186,530 
3 , 224,388 
307,000 
179,227 
241,138 
27 . 558,440 
37,440,020 
In Province Wellesley is included two estates iu ''*<= . 
I-eneng and live estates in Kedah. These figures are approximate. 
Yields of Dry Rubber per Tree. 
It is difficult to decide whether it is better to record 
yields per acre or per tree; both methods are in some ways 
misleading. The yields having been given m my last le- 
port per tree this seems to me to be the better way to con- 
tm Ahe average yield per tapped tree all over the Penin- 
sula has risen from 1 lb. 12 ozs to 1 lb. laij osss., an increase 
of 11 per cent. Considering that the majonty of the tiees 
tanned are in their first year of bearing this is a most 
encouraging figure, and shows that the yields estimated m 
looking forward to the future production ot rubber trees 
have, as a rule, been extremely moderate if not unneces- 
sarily smalJ. 
