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trees < ear>e®ially 'ms thift V>«en the oar.e where there have 
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itijlatefl' ere,'SCtations. Share 
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as a swall outbreak of 
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land within 'the boundary * ant has a stead?,1 y increasing 
vield although the first planted trees to not - ow Give 
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the quantity cf late:-: which they used, to do. 
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The ueu'er estates are just in hearing or nlnos ^ >.n. i-ear i?t£ 
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fshex is interp Ion tel -■ith tapioca, and feeling 
considerably the low price at whi.ch :• t se! is. js nas 
a large area ruipl anted: but . all the ctners are wol.*. f 
forward towards • .aturing thear lands. 
The ? ar^e now coconut estate on the Pruas r w er 
promises ■■■ell 
Again a little rice Jiao «.een r lante^ on th» northarn 
boundary( ICC acres ). 
A feature of the burnt district is the ousting by 
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Tamil crops. Thus it cones ct out that near bwnut Hay 
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be seen snail ; atchos of ground-nuts, of the millet 
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called ragi~ Eleusine coracana- and cf Pesanun 
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Malacca. The area under rubber in Malacca has 
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increased to 117 , -TO acres: and it is to be /noted thaw 
10- L G w cent of ' the total is 
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19 IT 10.0 percent of the -'resent total * ass planted and 
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