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RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON 



half per cent, ad valorem export duty on such products as rubber that 

 is a part of the land grant. 



That evening many friends of Air. Bailey's dropped in and dined 

 and later visited the Klang Club, where I met a score or more of young 

 Englishmen who were connected either with the government or with 

 the plantations in the neighborhood. 



The next morning my host took me by rail to Batu Tiga, where is 

 another big rubber plantation in which he is interested the Selangor 

 Rubber Co., or, in the native, Sungei Rengam. We put in three hours 



RUBBER PLANTATION VIEW IN SELANGOR,, FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



[Panoramic view of the Highlands and Lowlands Estate.] 



But 



of hard tramping over this estate, and got very hot and damp, 

 it was well worth while. 



The plantation is seven miles from Klang, on the railroad that joins 

 Klang with Kula Lumpur. There is also a fine government road soon 

 to go through this estate. It consists of 5,150 acres, of whicli 1,150 are 

 already opened- and in rubber. To this will be added three hundred 

 acres this year, the trees being planted about two hundred to the acre. 

 The soil is a rich alluvial, slightly rolling, and is cut by huge drains that 



