5 
Blanks in the I anjong Burong Reserve in the Dindings were planted with 8,200 
seeds of bakau (Rhizophora conjugata). The Para plantation (18 acres) in the Lumut 
Reserve was upkept during the year at a cost of $826.27. The greater part of 
this amount was spent on machinery, tools and tapping materials. The receipts from 
the sale of rubber were $161.06 which was credited to the Gardens Committee fund, 
i he plantation was in an unsatisfactory condition at the close of the year. Expendi- 
ture and revenue are shown in paragraph 21. 
in Malacca, 484 acres were added to the Ayer Kroh and Bukit Sebukor 
plantations during the year as follows : — 
4 acre 
5$ acres 
24 
39 
1 acre 
Total ... 484 acres 
Ayer Kroh . . 
Bukit Sebukor 
f Merbau 
l 
<( Penaga 
1 
C Para 
Para 
Mangos teen 
These plantations are upkept by the Gardens Committee, from the funds yielded 
by the sale of rubber which amounted to $4,127.58, during the year. The expenditure 
was $6,631.67. The accounts of the Gardens Committee appear in paragraph 22. 
Eight hundred and fifteen trees were tapped and produced 3,668$ lbs. of rubber 
as against 3,901 lbs. in 1912. The decrease in the yield is said to be due to bad 
tapping. 
Failures in the Penak, Resak, Penaga and Para blocks were replaced. Improve- 
ment fellings were carried out during the year in the Taban blocks. 
The Bukit Sebukor Reserve of 44 acres was cleared and planted with Para 
15' x 15' and I acre of swamp with mangosteens 12' X 12' at a cost of $800. One 
thousand and thirty Para trees were numbered and measured, and entered in a 
register. The tapping of 120 trees in block D. was discontinued on account of the 
carelessness of the tappers in the past. Twenty thousand Para seeds were sown in the 
nursery at Ayer Ivroh and about 17,500 seedlings were planted up in the Bukit Sebukor 
Reserve; 2,500 were used as supplies. The Merbau and Resak seedlings planted in 
the Merlimau and Sungai Udang Reserves are doing well. 
Bukit Timah Plantation. 
20. Statement of Receipts and Expenditure for 1913. 
Month. 
Receipts. 
Expendi- 
tu re. 
$ c. 
$ c . 
January 
201 71 
66 30 
P'ebruary 
* • • 
50 00 
March 
92 57 
143 30 
April 
38 12 
64 60 
May 
33 2 7 
64 60 
June 
* • • 
64 60 
July 
42 77 
64 54 
August 
. . . 
66 10 
September 
46 41 
50 60 
October 
60 60 
November 
7 ° 39 
55 60 
December 
• • • 
55 so 
Total 
525 24 
806 44 ■ 
Remarks. 
Of this sum $300 
was paid out of vote, 
“ Planting and Cul- 
tural Operations." 
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