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more attention in cultivation, Certain farmers whom I met, who 
have had considerable experience in wheat in other countries, 
agree with my views and are very anxious to give wheat a tr ial. 
It is necessary to prove by experiment the most “suitable month to 
sow the seed, and in order not to lose a year, two tons of seed 
wheat and one of pith have been ordered by cable from the 
BPG. 5 o% 
“IT am rather surprised that more use is not made Wailing of 
roofed with tiles or fa en are generally 10 digeccas or more 
cooler than corrugated iron houses. It would be in the general 
interests of the country, and of health, if more decided efforts were 
made to develop the building resources of this country. 
“As I have before mientiotied; considerable areas of the most 
fertile land along the railway have already been leased. Large 
areas of excellent agricultural land are still, available, adjacent to 
the railway blocks and in other localities, and I would urge that 
steps should be taken to endeavour to attract settlers who st the 
capital ha aipaimead for the proper development of the lanc 
Para Rubber in se Malay Peninsula.—A translation of a valuable 
paper by Dr. P. J. S. Cramer, Director of Agriculture, Surinam, 
18 given in the Droceaings of the ancien Society of Trinidad 
Tobago, Vol. ix., Part i, January, 1911, under the title of 
e The Culture of Hoven in the Malay Peninsula.” The article 
Tae, appeared under the title “ De Rubbercultuur op het 
leische Schiereiland” in Bulletin No. 25 of Department Van 
ee Landbouw, Suriname, August 25th, 1910. 
The author, at the request of the Dutch acces made an 
extended tour of rubber estates in the lay Peninsula and 
Ceylon during the latter part of 1909, and ee observations and 
notes made at the time he has produced i in terse language a work 
which, as stated in the preface, is not intended as a study of the 
cultivation of Hevea in the Straits in general, but only as a manual 
for the planter. The matter covers some 130 pages, and embraces 
the whole subject from the selection of a site, suitable soil, drainage, 
planting, upkeep of a plantation, catch crops, diseases and pests, 
tapping ‘operations, etc., to the packing of the finished product for 
Sema 
work is well illustrated, and should form a oe addition 
to ‘hy literature dealing with this important indust 
J, MH. 
