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Title: Agricultural bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States. New series
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: Singapore : Gov. Print. Off.
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credit for the excellent way in which their work has beencarried out. The difficulties under which most of them have openedup their estates have been many and various : bad conditions of health,both for master and coolie, and steadily rising price of labour owing tolocal conditions. Yields of Dry Rubber per Tree. The average amount of dry rubber is over the whole Peninsulalib. 12ozs. per tapped tree, exactly the same figure as was recorded forlast year. This is most encouraging, as the number of trees which arebeing tapped for the first time far exceeds those already tapped, especi-ally in Selangor, where the average is 1 lb. 7 ozs. per tapped tree. Experiments are being carried on in various parts of the Peninsula :Perak, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, in regard to yields of comparativelyold trees which have not previously been tapped. In Krian these ex-periments have been carried out for nearly four months, only half the 533 Ten Years of Rubber Planting in the Federated Malay States.
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534 tappable area of the trees being used and space being left so that morethan three years will elapse, with continuous tapping every other day,before the healed surface will be again reached. The figures for oneyear will be published in next years report, but as far as they have gonethe yields average more than 2 lbs., per mensem per tree. The trees areplanted widely apart round the edges of a graveyard and are about17 years old. There is as yet not sufficient evidence as to what yields may fairlybe expected over large areas of trees from 10 to 20 years old, but all thedata which we have at present points to the fact that estimates orprophecies of probable yields at these ages will be amply confirmed. Comparative Tables cf Bubbeb Crops, Malaya, 1906 and 1907. State. No. of TreesTapped Rubber YieldsLbs. Average Yieldper Tree 1906 1907 1906 1907 1907. ^ f Selangor^ I Perak^ ; Negri Sembilanf*i I Pahangoq f Malaccacq 1 Province WellesleyJohore 364,63867,71091,410 -7,00020,07648,350 772

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