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quarantine cnarges were accumulating. 



Agricultural Department. 



The Department of Agriculture which should be of much use to 

 the planting industry is slowly developing, but up to the present 

 only one trained expert has been available viz: the Director, and he 

 has to deal with all the routine of the Department as well as the 

 important branch of such a Department's work, the giving of advice 

 as to the treatment of disease in plants and the prevention of its 

 occurrence. Mr. CarrutheRS cannot be expected to deal with the 

 whole work of the Agricultural Department and at the same time 

 visit the many estates where his advice on these questions would be 

 of value. 



glad 



elf chiefly to investigations of plant 

 diseases and their prevention and cure. The addition of an Ento- 

 mologist and Chemist to the Agricultural Department promised by 

 His Excellency the High Commissioner more than a year ago has 

 not been effected, but an Entomologist and Chemist have been 

 appointed attached to the Institute for Medical Research and their 

 time is partly available for agricultural investigation. In a country 

 where insect pests are so rife and multiply so rapidly there is more 

 than work for one Entomologist in studying the life history of 

 diseases of cultivated plants. 



Considering the monetary value of such work, the Association 

 Egrets that Government do not see their way to allow the whole 

 time of the Entomologist to be devoted to it. 



Requests for the services of the Entomologist to work at outbreaks 

 ot disease on estates have been refused as that gentleman was 

 °ccup,ed with work of another character. 



Agriculture both European and Native in these States is 

 Profitable, and is a source of large revenue to Government, and the 

 department which controls and helps agriculture should be 

 P ro Perly equipped for its work, and the Association takes this 

 opportunity of respectfully urging on Government, that the 

 *heme under which the Department was created should be carried 

 out and the Scientific Officials necessary should be appointed. 

 Jhe Department has as far as was possible carried on useful 

 B? l Action of experiments for the manufacture of Carbon 



"'sulphide to exterminate white ants, eradication of lalang by 

 J^nsof spraying, growing of camphor cuttings to use for catch 

 . P», as well as by giving information and advice in answer to a 

 lar ge number of queries. 



Skw5 e Ex P e nmental Station in Kuala Lumpur there are a con- 

 l,w c e number of 8-year old rubber trees, and your Association 

 '^forward to many interesting additions to knowledge m tap- 

 1 t> a nd curing when the laboratories of the Department are 



