A note on the Agriculture of the &*3i* 
Any set-back wiicli rubber-cultivation nay experience from 
the present reduced price of the product, is not yet apparent-* 
Hw land is still being planted in all the Settlements; and 
where estates have had divided interests,— whether in rubber 
and coconuts, or in rubber and gambler, or in rubber and 
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tapioca, there has been a wide-spread tendency to remove the 
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second crop'* Sugar too, in the Province Wellesley has had 
interest withdrawn from It in favour of rubber}* 
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The cutting out of coconuts, though generally of young 
trees, has in Penang and in Singapore, extended to mature 
trees in bearing* Nevertheless, at least in Singapore , the 
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coconut crop has been very good 
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Finsa^vias, < vide!- ulanted in Singapore as a catch—orep under 
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young rubber, and also planted by themselves, have fruited in 
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abundance , so that t;he price of the fruit at the tinning 
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so 
that 
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fell 
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BJrifift t trees in Singapore island have not yielded freely^ and 
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there is a growing tendency towards the importation cf the 
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necessary -simply from a considerable distance 1 . She consequent 
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rise in prices seems to promise an increased interest in the 
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The narkot-prico of vegetables in Singapore grows higher 
because Suitable land for their cultivation near the town is 
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insufficient, and supplies in pargo • art are drawn from remote 
parts of the island. 
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/Gambler and indigo cultivation have become insignificant in 
Singapore ■ Island. 
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K©turning to the subject of* rubber, it nay b© said that 
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the ,estimated fields of the estates closing their year between 
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Junef and December are being or promise to be fulfilled or ‘StcWc*) 
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