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8. It would also be well if the natives of the country could be persuaded to 
breed sheep and cattle in addition to goats and buffaloes, as there is excellent grazing 
land in the kampongs and adjoining grass lands. In Kelantan, sheep do very well, 
and the few that have been tried in Kuala Pilah have been a success, so there is no 
reason why they should not be introduced here. I believe that if the Government 
could obtain a certain number of sheep from Kelantan or Calcutta, the principal 
Malays of this country would be glad to buy them at cost price. 
HARVEY CHE VALUER, 
District Officer, 
s Kwala Pilah . 
REPORT BY THE BRITISH RESIDENT OF PAHANG. 
British Residency, 
Pahang , 26th April , 1892. 
Sir, — With reference to your letter, 1 0 of the 1 8th of December last, I have 
the honour to enclose, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the copy of a 
Report by the Superintendent of Ulu Pahang, with which I agree generally. 
2. During the present disturbed condition of Pahang, it is practically impossible 
to take any effective steps to improve or extend the cultivation of rice and other 
cereals, but, as soon as these disturbances have been settled, I think that much might 
be done by a judicious expenditure of money, for purposes of irrigation and in pur- 
chasing new seed, as there are large areas of uncultivated padi land in every District 
of the State. Before formulating any scheme, however, I propose, with His Excellency’s 
approval, to lay the whole matter before His Highness the Sultan in Council. 
I have &c., 
J. P. RODGER, 
British Resident , Pahang , 
REPORT BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF ULU PAHANG. 
Kwala Lipis, 
9 2$th February , 1892. 
Sir, — I have the honour to make the following report, as instructed in Colonial 
Secretary . 
2. With reference to land* available for padi, I would point out that this 
District contains localities eminently suited for this form of cultivation. The whole 
of the Dong valley, nearly the whole of the valley of the upper Lipis, and the large 
triangular tract of country formed by the Semantan and Lipis rivers, is all flat land, 
for the most part consisting of grassy plains, and admirably adapted for irrigation. 
The water could be brought from the Dong, Gali, Semantan and Lipis rivers, and this, 
to a small extent, is now done by the Rawa Malays of the Dong and Lipis valleys. 
In former times this part of the country was very thickly populated, and the rice 
necessary for the food supply of the District was all grown on the spot. In the 
localities which I have mentioned, there must be at least 60,000 acres, and perhaps 
as much as 100,000 acres available, and in other parts of the District, notably in the 
upper Tembeling, and on the banks of the Pahang River, below Pedah, there are other 
tracts of land which present natural advantages for the padi-planter. At the same 
time, no part of Pahang which I have visited is as suitable for rice cultivation as 
the localities enumerated as forming part of the upper Lipis District. 
3. 1 he pernicious practice of using the crop obtained each year for seed at the 
next planting season, the still more ruinous habit of planting the same seed in the 
same ground year after year, and of never crossing the seed, or taking any precautions 
with a view to its improvement, has had a most disastrous effect on the rice crop of 
Pahang. It is not too much to sa.y that fully one-fourth of the rice planted produces 
barren ears, and, latterly, owing to a long succession of droughts, floods and other 
vicissitudes, the crops obtained have, in numerous instances, not equalled the amount 
of the seed from which they sprung. 
