and the trees here ought with proper supervision to recover them- 
selves in a few months. 
10. I have naturally had great trouble with the natives, who are 
very indifferent to looking after their plantations, and although I 
have done my best to use persuasive means and point out to them 
how much it is to their benefit to keep the plantations properly 
cleaned &c., I have not met with the response I would have liked. 
However, it has not been entirely without success and some of the 
owners are at last beginning to see the advantage of giving more 
attention to their gardens, and by perseverance and other means 1 
still hope that the majority may ultimately be brought round to see 
where their interest lies and become better agriculturists. In any 
case, it is encouraging to know that the cultivation is rapidly ex- 
tending. 
11. The largest estates owned by Europeans are in the dis- 
tricts of Kuala Langat and Klang, and as regards these plantations 
1 am pleased to say f am able to report most favourably. They 
vary in size from about 200 to 500 acres- in extent, trees looking 
strong and healthy and of superb growth. I may, in passing, 
mention Klanang Estate near Jugra, about 450 acres under cultiva- 
tion, and although the oldest trees are not more that five years in 
age, still several of them are now in bearing. 1 am sorry to say 
that the white ant has been very troublesome in these parts. 
12. There are many fine plantations also all along the coast of 
Selangor, mostly native holdings. The land everywhere in these 
parts is most suitable for coconuts, and for some miles inland. In 
my opinion, it is a perfect home for coco-nuts, the trees come 
quickly into bearing, produce magnificent crops, and owing to the 
fertility of the soil, they . absolutely require no manure; it would 
therefore I think be difficult to find any locality where the coco-nut 
palm can be grown under more favourable conditions. 
13. ’ With these advantages 1 anticipate the cultivation of coco- 
nuts may prove in a few years to be one of the most important 
agricultural industries in the State, provided it is properly encouraged 
and guarded ; and I think I cannot do better than conclude this 
report by repeating the views I have previously expressed on this 
subject, which, though general, certainly apply to the State of 
Selangor. 
14. 1 feel confident the encouragement and continued protection 
of the cultivation must add very materially to the future prosperity 
of the States. The area under coco-nuts is already very extensive 
the soil exceptionally fertile and particularly suited to the growth 
of the trees, while there is plenty more good land available, I may 
be considered partial, but I am of opinion, taking it all round, that 
the production of coco-nuts is probably one of the safest and most 
paying of the agricultural industries in the States, and certainly 
the most lasting, with very ordinary care and practically at small 
expenses ; but I think the great advantage lies in the fact that the 
native, with comparatively small means, who owns his five, ten, or 
twenty acres, properly kept, is, in his own way, as well and com- 
fortably off as the more wealthy owners of the larger estates, and 
