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by Mr. E. V. Carey. Here are three hundred acres containing: some 
60, coo trees that average three years of age. Most of this rubber is 
planted 20X10 feet, although there is some 10X10 and 15X15. One 
advantage of the 10X10 planting was that almost no weeding was 
necessary, the ground being absolutely free from all vegetation. While 
going over this plantation Mr. Carey and I experimented with a two- 
handled tapping knife, an invention of his, which certainly did very 
effective work. 
RUBBER PLANTATION VIEW IN SELANGOR, FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
[Five year old “Hevea" — Pataling Estate.] 
Next to the estate of which Mr. Carey has charge is the Batu Unjor 
plantation owned by a wealthy Chinaman, Loke Yew, on which there 
are some 17,000 four and one-half year Heveas which looked first rate. 
The land in Selangor belongs to the state and is acquired by the 
payment of two dollars, Mexican, an acre cash, and one dollar an acre 
annual rental in perpetuity ; twenty-five per cent, of the land must be 
under cultivation within five years, or it reverts to the government. At 
the same time the powers that be are very lenient and disposed to help all 
honest effort by granting time extensions. There is also a two and one- 
