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The Para planted here ten years ago has done very badly ; 300 Para stumps 
were planted out. Total cost $146.65. $80.40 was realized on lease of some Para 
trees on Government Hill. 
21. In the Dindings 10 acres were planted with Para at Lumut, one acre with 
cocoa-nuts and one acre of fruit trees on reclaimed marsh land. The total cost was 
$370.50 including nursery. The prisoners assisted by digging out lalang. 
Sale of rubber from the trees near the rest-house yielded a revenue of $578.86, 
out of which $210 was spent on making a* drying shed and store, etc. $160 was 
realized by sale of plants and fruits. 
22. In Malacca the area of plantations at Ayer Kroh and Bukit Sebukor was 
erroneously shown in the 1909 report as 281 acres at the close of 1909, whereas it 
should have been 345 acres, as 64 acres were added in 1909. The area was further 
added to in 1910 by 10 acres of Merbau, Penaga and Nibong, vide Form 8. 
This plantation was upkept by the Gardens Committee, from funds yielded by 
sale of rubber. The accounts of the Gardens Committee are appended. 
$ c. 
2,468 22 brought forward from 1909 
5,127 60 receipts 1910 
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$7,595 82 Expenditure during 1910 w as $2, 1 12.74. 
The available ground on the Mahogany block was planted up with Para plants, 
nearly one-third have died out, but these were replaced. Those planted in the avail- 
able ground in the Para block are -doing well. 
Afgood many of the plants in the Penak, Penaga, Merbau and Nibong blocks 
proved failures, but were replaced. The Nibong plants in compartment 2 situated on 
hilly ground proved a failure, although still living, the plants being stunted, those 
growing in compartments 1 and 3 on low-lying ground are thriving. 
The Merbau block, compartments 1 and 3, Penak No. 7 ; Resak, Tembusu, 
Kledang, Mahogany, Gutta Percha and Getah Sundek show great improvement. 
The hardwood timber nursery of Merbau, Penaga, Penak, Resak, Tembusu and 
Nibong are doing well, except Niatoh and Kledang which were abandoned, and these 
beds were converted into a Para nursery in which 19,180 seeds were sown. These 
seeds were collected at the plantation. 
During the last two months of the year, the Para block in the Bukit Sebukor 
reserve was divided into two compartments (A and B) and all the trees, except those 
below 6 inches in girth were measured at 3 feet from the ground and numbered by the 
Forest Ranger and a record kept with sketches in a register. Blocks C and D situated 
at the sixth and seventh mile in the Bukit Bruang reserve were completed. A sample 
plot consisting of one hundred Getah Taban trees in the block at the seventh mile was 
measured, numbered and registered during June. The Para blocks A, B, C and D 
were attended to, drained, weeded, and lalang and undergrowth removed. 
Failures were replaced, and planting up of available ground with Para seedlings 
was completed. 
During the latter part of the year the block boundaries of Nibong, Penak, 
Merbau, Penaga, (compartments 1, 2 and 3) Kledang, Resak, Penak No. ’7, which 
were overgrown with lalang and resam were cleaned up. Bridging of swamps in 
some of the blocks was completed. 
The undergrowth round the Taban trees in the blocks was cleaned 18 inches 
round each tree. 
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The Merbau and Penak nursery in the Merlimau reserve did not prove a success, 
but the Tembusu seedlings are doing well, a good number of these have been planted 
