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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



SIXTH LETTER CONCLUSION. 



RUBBER PLANTATIONS AT KLANG, IN SELANGOR MR. BAILEY AND His WORK 

 DISTANCE OF PLANTING AGE AT WHICH HEVEA TREES YIELD THE LABOR QUES- 

 TION MR. CAREY'S PLANTING THE CHINESE AS RUBBER PLANTERS THE SELAN- 

 GOR RUBBER Co. RETURN TO SINGAPORE AND DEPARTURE FOR HONG KONG. 



DURING the night spent on the Sappho, on the trip from Singapore 

 to Selangor, we passed through a succession of heavy showers, 

 but the sea was smooth and it was cool enough to be fairly 

 comfortable. The meals aboard the boat were also good, and the native 

 servants as intelligent as it paid them to be. At eight the next morning 



FOUR YEAR OLD HEVEA/ KLANANG ESTATE. 



we stopped at Port Dickson, where there is a good harbor, with an iron 

 pier and a few bungalows and native houses set down in the jungle. 

 After discharging freight we left, following the coast about three miles 

 out. The land was low, wooded down to the water's edge with an occa- 

 sional break where a river discharged its muddy flood into the clear 

 water of the Straits. 



In due time I reached Port Swettenham, where a short railroad 

 journey took me to Klang. The station master then told me that I could 



