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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.] 
of hard tramping over this estate, and got very hot and damp. But 
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 which 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 
