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TMK  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST. 
[July  r,  H,,. 
l‘LAXTIN(t  IN  Kl.ANC,  JSELANCiOlJ,  STILVITS  SETTLEMENTS. 
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(Froiti  tlie  Schi»;/or  Coirnunait  Gazette,  April  26.) 
KSTATKS  OK  AX  ACltJCAliK  OF  100  ACKlvS  01!  OVER. 
Area  in  Acres. 
Xame  of  Estate.  Nature  of  Cultivation. 
'J'riiinKle* 
Treniell)yr 
Batu  Unjor* 
Highland* 
J.owlaiiils'* 
Klaus 
Forlorn  Hope'* 
Beverlac 
.leans  EnsHiu 
Et)or 
Enterprise 
(ilennvirie 
Starleil  in  1801. 
Cotfee 
Coil'eeanil  pepper 
Cotfee,  s.iso,  ami  vegetables 
(!offee  .. 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
! toffee,  etc. 
Do 
I'otfee 
Coffee 
Do  etc. 
Coffee  ami  pepper 
Coffee 
T.apioca 
1’i‘pper 
Coffee  ami  pepper 
Do 
I’roprietors. 
ICl.AXG. 
T H Hill 
•f  R Rodgers 
E Treweeke  and  H 
fUelbye 
Lim  S.vee  Keng  and 
Dug  Chee  .Siew. . 
K Tambusuuy  I’illay 
and  I.ok  Yew 
'V  W llailev 
l>o 
■A.  For.sytli 
II  A \V  Aylesbury  . . 
Managers 
T Gibson 
B Nissen 
Lim  .Swee  Keng 
Syed  Mohained 
A IValker 
Do 
II  Inniss 
F A Tovnbee 
Under 
Total  Culti- 
vation. 
•2,.'i00 
500 
516 
1,781 
619 
300 
300 
500 
60 
110* 
280 
54 1 
6 I 
.50 
. ■ II  \V  11  Coiuining 
A Walker,  G K Rrior  Asst. 
320 
\V  Forsythe 
T H Hill 
328 
Ila.ji  Mohained  Tahir 
llaji  Ahdiilralnnan  . . 
353 
373* 
• • Do 
Do 
104 
1048 
llaji  Xacoda  U.sop  .. 
llaji  Sainsudin 
323 
300 
lU  KlT  HA.JAII. 
• . 11  II  Tunku  Dia  Udin 
Sheik  Ahdnl  .Mohet  .. 
2,004 
300 
. . Ila.ji  .Mohained  Tahir 
llaji  Ahdulraliiiian  . . 
103 
5011 
Gil  Stephenson  A 
Brothers 
F Stephenson 
Kairan  bin  Tanisair,. 
2.50 
3211 
Kairan  hin  Tanisair. 
100 
45 
DA.MANSARA. 
Kow  Soon  Kiat 
3,000 
800 
..  G 11  Ste|)hen.son  A 
Brothers 
1’ Stephenson 
40) 
21 
II  lliittenbach  A Co. 
F ,\  llurtli 
443 
62‘* 
„ l).> 
Do 
563 
85*1 
Total..  16, 295  2,786 
The  following  prophetic  forecast  by  Mr.  Swetten- 
ham  in  the  Selangor  Administration  Report  for  18.S7 
may  be  of  interest  : — “ The  Klang  District,  however, 
bids  fair  to  le.ad  the  State  in  matters  agricultural, 
and  it  is  a .subject  for  congratulation  that  tlie 
principal  port  of  Selangor  and  the  terminus  of  the 
railway  should  possess  such  solid  attractions  for 
capitalists  and  peasants.” 
It  is  trne  the  capitalist  and  peasant  have  docked 
to  the  Kuala  Lumpur  District,  but  Klang  easily 
leads  the  rest  of  the  State  as  an  agricultural  district. 
Klang  has  become  a regular  home  to  the  Javanese, 
their  numbers  here  steadily  increasing  year  by  year. 
Quiet,  steady,  frugal,  hardworking  people,  they  offer 
.a  i^leasing  contrast  to  the  casual  Malay  in  the  way 
they  clear,  drain,  plant  and  weed  their  coffee  gardens. 
Even  the  Chinamen  who  have  embarked  in  coffee 
keep  their  land  weeded,  even  if  they  do  plant  kliidi 
between  the  young  plants  for  the  first  year  or  two. 
But  as  for  the  Malay,  he  has  no  thought  for  the 
morrow,  and  calmly  allows  his  young  plants  to  grow 
up  amongst  lalang  bacause  he  is  too  lazy  to  work. 
To  report  on  the  progress  of  cultivation  is  simply 
ty  say  that  Europeans,  .Javanese,  Chinese  and  Malays 
who  hold  land  in  the  Klang  District  arc  pilanting 
it  up  with  coffee  as  fast  as  their  means  will  allow 
them. 
Ko  new  pepper  has  been  planted,  owing  to  the 
low  price  of  pepper,  which  has  been  steadily  going 
down  in  the  market  for  the  last  five  years,  until  pep- 
per estate  proprietors  seem  on  the  veige  of  ruin. 
To  sum  up  the  position  of  Klang  as  a field 
for  coffee  planting,  we  find  ‘2,710  acres  of  land  in 
the  Klang  Miikim  have  been  taken  up  by  Euro- 
peans during  the  year.  Twelve  blocks  of  virgin 
forest  land  amounting  in  all  to  acres  have 
been  surveyed  and  will  be  offered  for  sale  by 
))ublic  auction  at  an  early  date.  The  area  of  cus- 
tomary native  ho'dings  has  increased  from  8, .516 
acres  in  1S98  to  4,570  acres  in  181)4,  and  there  are 
three  demarcators  now  in  the  field  with  enough 
work  to  last  them  for  a year.  The  Selangor  Coffee 
Curing  and  Trading  Company  has  established  itself 
here  to  buy  up  and  prepare  the  coffee  berry  for  the 
market,  and  is  already  reported  to  be  working  at 
a profit.  Coffee  is  the  King  of  Klang. 
TEA  AMD  OVEK-PKODUCTION. 
A correspondent  of  the  EmiU.s-htimn  lias  taken 
up  the  |tarable  of  the  tea  jd.anter  and  tiie  limited 
lujirket  wliiuU  has  heen  so  earnestly  |>reaehe<l  of 
late  in  ( eylon,  and  nrge.s  the  ahsohite  nece.ssitj' 
there  is  for  India  to  e.vtend  lier  ni.arket  for  tea 
if  tlie  industry  is  to  jirosper.  From  tliis  it  would 
appe.ar  tliat  tlie  ov'er- prod  action  .scare  lia*  spread 
to  tills  country,  and  it  is  just  as  well  perhaps 
that  it  has,  for  there  can  he  little  doubt  that 
Indian  phanters  have  been  too  long  content  to  let 
their  produce  imsh  itself.  With  the  keen  coin- 
petition  there  now  is,  India  must  he  uji  and  doin<' 
with  the  rest,  and  if  the  “sc.are”  h.as  the  effect 
of  rousing  the  country  out  of  its  lethargy  well 
and  good. — Madma  Timex. 
IiiK  llAfi.WAV  To  India.— In  the  Contem- 
poranj  liemew  for  April,  Mr.  C.  E.  D.  Black- 
law'  revives  the  project  of  a Railway  from  the 
Meditfti I anean  to  India.  He  pro])o.ses  to  con- 
nect  I ort  .Said  and  K’nrrachee  through  Syria 
I crsia  and  I’.eliichistan  on  the  Indian  broad 
.gauge  2,;i()0  miles  at  ,T.-),(JU0  a mile  or  ,£12,0l)(),0(K) 
in  al  -with  t:3,U0(),()00  for  rolling  stock,  or 
lj>  millmn  sterling  in  all.  We  have  not  the 
slightest  doubt  that  this,  or  some  other  jiroject, 
will  ere  long  he  taken  in  hand.  We  are'  en- 
tering on  a new  era  of  “Railway  Coiistruc- 
tion  inore  e.siiecially  to  serve  the' iiitere.sts  of 
tlie  liritish  hnnpire,  and  before  the  new  century 
is  very  ohl  it  will  be  po.ssihle  to  travel  froili 
i iiiombo  to  Fort  .Said  all  the  way  by  rail. 
75  acres  coffee,  and  35  acres  pepper,  f Felling  and  (Iraiiiing  in  hand.  { 
25  acres,  fruit  trees  76  acres,  g ColTee  ill!  acres,  fruit  trees  8 aces.  •]  Coffee 
acres.  j|  Coffee  15  acres,  pepper  17  acres.  ' Coffee  25  acres,  pepper  37  acres. 
( oftee  182  acres,  arecanut  70  acres  coconut 
;!0  acres,  arecaniits  15  acres,  fnnt  tree.s  5 
ft  Coffee  45  acres,  pepper  40  acres, 
