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5- No considerable area of new land can be brought under cultivation, unless 
immigrants from Sumatra and Java can be induced to settle in considerable numbers, 
and to effect this it would be necessary to make advances amounting to a large sum. 
6. Possibly, if it were considered advisable to make advances on a large scale, 
repayment might be insured by the adoption of a system analogous to the labour 
system of miners. 
I have, &c., 
C. KEMP, 
Acting District Officer, 
Ulu Langat, 
REPORT ON LAND AVAILABLE FOR PADI CULTIVATION IN KUALA 
SELANGOR DISTRICT, AND STEPS NECESSARY TO 
GET IT OPENED UP. 
District Office, 
Kuala Selangor , iHth January , 1892. 
Sir, — I have the honour to report as to the available land for padi cultivation in this 
District, and as to the steps necessary to get it opened up. 
2. There are in this District many thousands of acres highly suitable for padi 
cultivation ; in the immediate neighbourhood of the existing roads there are about ten 
thousand acres on which padi could be grown if a complete system of irrigation were 
carried out. 
3. This District has, ever since systematic meteorological observations have 
been taken, been proved to be the driest in the State, and it has been shewn to be 
impossible, under the present conditions, to plant padi with any reasonable prospect 
of success. 
In 1889, 1,750 acres were planted, but a very poor harvest indeed was reaped 
this was indirectly due to a drought when the padi was half grown ; in 1890 no padi 
was planted, because there was no rainfall to justify it ; and in 1891 the rain came so 
late that only a few enthusiastic persons planted about 120 acres in all. 
4. There is no population to justify the irrigation of large tracts of land, but I 
recommend that in each mukim a small piece of land at the side of the main road, 
from 100 to 800 acres according to the population, be thoroughly irrigated. The large 
drains at present existing at the sides of all the roads would materially assist this 
work, the detail of which I do not consider in this letter. 
5. I feel confident that if this were done, with the present population of the 
District, about 3,000 acres of padi, sufficient in an average year to feed about 25,000 
persons, would be yearly grown, and as most of the land is suitable for padi, nothing 
but careful husbanding of the water, and ordinary care in planting, &c. is required 
to produce large crops. 
6. I do not believe that any good would be done by offering land free or at 
very low rates for padi cultivation, if it is desired to artificially encourage the planting 
of padi; a small bounty on padi reaped and properly saved would have the best effect. 
7. If the Government desires to spend money on pushing the planting of padi, 
I do not think it could be better spent than in the irrigation of several small pieces 
of land in this District, where there is an adult Malay and Javanese population of 
about 3,500, the greater part of whom devote their time to agriculture. 
I have, &c., 
J. R. O. ALDWORTH, 
Acting District Officer , Kuala Selangor . 
REPORT ON THE RICE CULTIVATION IN THE DISTRICT 
OF ULU SELANGOR. 
L It is noticeable in this District that the padi cultivation during the last four 
years has made no appreciable increase. 
1. Ulu Bernam, under Haji MuSTAPHA, is perhaps the only mukim where 
an increase can be seen. 
2. In Kerling, under Saiyid MASHOR, the planting has decreased, owing to 
many families having left the mukim. 
3. In Ulu Yam, the cultivation is about the same as it has been for some 
years. This is the best valley for padi in the District, and there is 
any quantity of land lying idle that might be made use of, could 
I get more farjrT.es to come in. 
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