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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



The laborers were a mixed lot, being Tamil, Chinese, and Javanese 

 coolies. The Tamils are rather hard to get but are fairly good laborers ; 

 the Chinese coolies are good rough laborers but are not the equal of 

 the Javanese. As there is a glut of labor in Java there is a likelihood 

 that the planters in the Malay states will be able to get many of them, 

 and as they all speak Malay and are content with thirty-five to forty 

 cents, Mexican, a day, and find themselves, they are much sought after. 

 Besides thev would far rather work for an Englishman than a Dutchman. 



RUBBER PLANTATION VIEW IN SELANGOR, FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



[Four year old "Ficus" Selangor Rubber Co.] 



After visiting Highlands estate and looking over the coffee mill, 

 Mr. Bailey took me for a drive out in the outskirts of Klang, that I 

 might see the small plantings of the Chinese. These were of no especial 

 moment, being chiefly coffee gardens grown up with grass, with a few 

 Ficus elastic a or Hcvea trees put in at haphazard. One Chinaman, Cong 

 Lamb, however, had about twenty acres of coffee and Hcvca planted 

 15X15 feet, the trees looking about five years old and quite well grown. 



But the plantations owned by Chinamen and run by Europeans are 

 another matter; for example, the Kong Yaik estate, which is managed 



