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Mr. Winstedt lias the following interesting tale to tell : 
“The example of one Malay here (Matang), who sold 
twelve acres of clean rubber for $8,000, has brought home 
the importance of diligent supervision to his whole mukim 
with most salutary results. Another Malav, the headman 
50 Partners, got an offer, on almost' the same scale, 
for 100 acres but refused it. and is spending the hundreds of 
do lars a month he wins from his old trees on white-ant 
killer, fungus cures and clean weeding, and looks forward to 
making soon his thousands of dollars a month.” 
These things have afforded food for thought to Government 
f on: n ofcTwtarirs S t S hat ,heir th ° U8htS ^ ~ brfp " 
•' Malays are among the first people who should be allowed 
of rubber, ^ tha ' * *° be derived from th ^‘ Planting 
has given small area to Malays, on the special condition that they 
thdr lands y6ar ^ P ' ant ^ p “ fruit trees on 
He has done this because : 
“The ghosts of coffee and tapioca are still in every mukim 
blades o?| P r S ab ™ doned P atches waving their warning 
blades ofla ang. Moreover, one cannot but feel that, what- 
fntLp T P ni C K ° f rUbbcr ' ,he danger to the industry 
m the Peninsula will be very great when the large estates 
as re in U th r0Un b y f patchesof native-grown rubber, ill-kept 
rt; f ^ , enCe ° f 3ny special legislation on the lines of 
to be f cL P antln f ° fCOC n ni 't treeS ’ ,he n'ajnnty are likely 
to be. Clean weeding will appeal only in theory to the 
average raiat Any infectious disease that may come will 
almost certainly find its source in a native kampong.” 
These words might have been written by a planter. They look 
so entirely at one side of the picture. They have evidently 7 been 
written by an officer who has the Negri Setnbilan in his mind’s 
hav/°h 1 know ° f °nly one mukim, or it may be two, in Perak which 
appLled n to S Z 1 ^ tal T a ' C ' ean Weeding has certainly not 
appealed to the average planter. Many planters have planted un 
more land than they could ever have properly upkept, and it is fair 
to admit that the formation of companies has given men and money 
to the country to enable tha( which was Wtten offtobe d c ” 0 w n e Py 
h , SpeCala r has had ds effect on the Malay. He has sold 
patches of rubber at enormous prices, and his appetite is whetted to 
plant more for the demented foreigner to buy. If it makes him rich 
and makes him happy, I, as one of his friends, look on in perfect 
complacence. I see no reason to jump at the conclusion that disease 
