AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



STRAITS 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



io. 9.] SEPTEMBER, 1907- [ VoL - V 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF AGRI- 

 CULTURE F. M. S., FOR THE YEAR 1906. 



The second year's record of the Department of Agriculture, 

 Federated Malay States, is like the first annual report to a great 

 extent an account of the work of organisation and equipment. 

 The department still suffers from lack of suitable quarters, and 

 the year's work was carried on under difficulties owing to want 

 of necessary accommodation and also to the fact that the offices 

 of the officials of the department were some miles apart. I his 

 inconvenience will shortly be removed, when the laboratories 

 and office buildings of the department, now being built at the 

 Swettenham Road Experiment Plantations, are completed. 



A great deal of scientific work having an important practical 

 faring on the various agricultural industries of the Peninsula 

 had to be either investigated cursorily or postponed. With only 

 one scientific worker to undertake the investigation of problems 

 of plant disease, chemistry, meteorology, etc., and at the same 



large number of routine duties ; 



Agriculture, this was unavoidable 



and an Entomologist were appointed, attached to the Instnuie 

 f or Medical Research, and the technical knowledge of these 

 officials was to some extent placed at the disposal of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. The Chemist, however, had a large 

 amount of Public Analyst's work to overtake, and consequent!} 

 was only able to do agricultural work of the most Passing 

 character. His report in regard to this latter work is appended. 

 . T he Entomologist, who arrived in September, was able to 

 £v<*e more time but had in addition to his agricultural disease 

 Preventive work to rarrv on investigations in medical pathology 



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