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Bukit Sedanan and Bafang Malacca Reserves, Bintangor reproduced itself well in Bukit 
Bruang Reserve also Tampinis. Ebony, Belian and Seraya are plentiful in Sungai 
Udang Reserve, also saplings of Medang and Bintangor in the Sungai Siput Reserve. 
Rambei Daun and Meranti reproduce themselves well. 
Artificial Reproduction. 
1 8. In Singapore, the 90 acres of Gutta Percha in Bukit Timah Reserve was 
greatly improved during the year, costing $460. The 10 acres of Para planted about 
10 years ago in Sembawang Reserve were cleared. p 
19. In Penang, the plantation at Batu Ferringgi, 68 acres was upkept at a cost 
of $212, and the Experimental Teak Plantation at Tasek Glugor for $62. The latter 
is not a success. The soil at Batu Ferringgi does not appear to be very suitable for 
the growth of Taban planting and operation^ have been discontinued. 
Details will be found in Form 8,* J 
20. In Malacca the whole area planted now 7 amounts to 297 acres, costing 
$1,766 in upkeep. Revenue derived therefrom principally from the tapping of Para 
and from fruit trees was $445. The blocks of bluker forest in the Bukit Bruang 
Reserve planted up previously, wereVpkept, and half an acre of Gutta Percha planted 
with 60 plants from Marcottes, and 3 acres of Penak ( Balanocarpus ) planted i6| feet 
apart in lines cut in the bluker. It is reported that Gutta Percha plants were not 
attacked by the caterpillars as usual. The reverse was the case in Selangor where the 
attacks were unusually severe. i 
The Tembusu planted in lalang grass in 1904, 6 feet by 6 feet have suppressed 
the lalang. 
21. Improvement fellings were made in the Taban and Tembusu blocks where 
necessary, other inferior species of trees being cleared to give room and light. 
22. The nursery is well stocked and contains at present 20,000 seedlings of the 
following species : — 
Penak, Merbau, Penaga, Resak and Nibong also a few hundred Xiato and 
Kledang. 
The Penak seed was obtained from Pahang, the Penaga ( Mesua f erred) from 
Negri Sembilan and the Resak (Shorea sp : ) from Bukit Senggeh Reserve in Malacca. 
23. Para Rubber. — Five hundred trees were leased out to a Malay to tap. The 
Conservator inspected the tapping which had been done in September and October, 1907. 
It was very badly done, the trees having been damaged by careless tapping. The work 
was taken away from this man. Sanction was obtained on the recommendation of the 
Conservator to tap departmentally in 1908, and a drying shed was erected. 
A mangle was purchased, and the profits should increase under this head. The 
Forest Ranger, Malacca, was sent to Taiping to study the methods of .tapping and 
curing rubber in force in the Forest Department plantation there, as a jfigh price hack 
been obtained for the sheet turned out. a 
Exploitation. 
{See Form 9.*) 
Timber and Fuel. 
24. In Singapore, no felling was permitted in reserved forests, passes were 
issued to cut firewood on Crown Land and realized $4,112, as against $696 in 1906. 
25. In Penang and Province Wellesley no figures are available, but the revenue 
derived from licences was $491, as against $455 in 1906. 
26. In the Dindings, timber extracted from reserved forests amounted to 
87 tons of 50 cubic feet, and Class I B 720 tons; in free grants to the Public Works 
Department 33 tons from Crown Lands, and alienated land 79 tons, Class I A. 2414:0ns 
Class B /, 12 tons Class II. The revenue realized was $4,798 against $3,898 in 1906, 
Firewood was cut under passes and realized $3,870, a slight decrease over 1906, 
In Malacca. 
Reserved Forests. 
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27. In Merlimau, 445 trees of Class I, in Ayer Panas 136 trees, and in Sungai Udang 
117 trees were marked by the Forest Ranger for felling in the compartments allotted, 
and 450 were felled during the year. Besides this 46 Merbau, Belian and Resak trees 
were marked in Forest Reserves for the supply of teams and planks for the 
* Not printed. 
