

PREFACE. 



rpHIS volume represents the oflficial report of the 

 Proceedings of the First Agricultural Conference 

 of Malaya, and includes the papers contributed to the 

 Conference, together with the discussions which followed 

 the reading of the papers. The discussions in most 

 cases were not so thorough as they might have been, 

 but, now that we are assured that the planting community 

 will support an Agricultural Conference, it is hoped to 

 arrange programmes for future Conferences which will 

 allow more time for discussion, and to appoint delegates 

 in different parts of the Peninsula who will come 

 prepared to discuss the papers submitted to these 

 Conferences. 



The Conference Committee wish to place on record 

 their appreciation of the valuable service rendered by 

 the gentlemen who took part in the Conference. 





