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occur in kampongs anywhere, but during that month it was found 

 fairly commonly on kampongs in the Eaub district of Pahang by the 

 Assistant Agricultural Inspector, Selangor, and the author. The 

 treatment of this disease in the kampongs will be a difficult matter 

 and can only be carried out by a trained gang or gangs of coolies 

 specially employed by the Department. Both the identification of 

 the disease and its treatment require more or less expert knowledge 

 and the Malay subordinate officers will have to be most carefully 

 trained before such work can safely be left to them. 



Steps must, however, be taken early to decide the distribution of 

 the disease in the kampongs and measures must be devised for its 

 treatment. 



Locust Work. 

 In Selangor and the Negri Sembilan the Assistant Agricultural 

 Inspectors have been responsible for supervising the work of des- 

 troying locusts, for which purpose a special staff was provided. The 

 work commenced in September, 1913, and continued in Selangor 

 until the end of 1915. A few locusts were present during 1916 and 

 a small staff was kept until the end of the year to watch them. 

 No eggs were, however, laid and the State is now practically free 

 from locusts ; unless there is still a small swarm rapidly dying out 

 at Sepang ; none are known to occur elsewhere. In the Negri 

 Sembilan work went on continually during the years 1913, 1914, apd 

 1915 ; the staff was reduced in 1916 as the number of locusts became 

 less and only part of the subordinate staff was left under the direct 

 control of the Assistant Agricultural Inspector. Naturally the 

 locust work occupied much of his time in 1916. At present there 

 are no more locusts in the Negri Sembilan and very little more work 

 is expected there. 



The Chief Agricultural Inspector has been in chief control of 

 this work throughout ; besides general supervision of this work in 

 Selangor and the Negri >Sembilan since August, 1913, he has also 

 had to supervise work on locust destruction in Johore since October, 

 1914, and in Malacca since March, 1916, In both these States the 

 number of locusts is now much reduced. 



Work ok Estates. 

 The work of European inspecting officers on estates has been 

 almost entirely of an advisory nature. In two or three cases letters 

 requiring the treatment in accordance with the Enactment of one or 

 two diseases, usually pink disease, have been sent out, but in no 

 instance has a court case been necessary to enforce the measures 

 required. 



As part of the routine work the distribution of pink disease by 

 mukims has been determined and practically every infected estate 

 is known in Perak, Selangor and the Negri Sembilan, in Pahang the 



