No. I.] 



January, 1904. [Vol. hi. part i. 



\GRICULTURA L BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED BY 



H. N. RIDLEY, m. a., f. l. s. ; 



Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S. 



CONTENTS. 



PLATES I & II— PINE-APPLE CULTIVATION. 



Page. 



1. Pine-apples ... ... ... ... i 



2. Early experiments in Cotton planting in the Straits 



Settlements ... ... ... 7 



3. Remarks on the Cultivation of Cotton in Singapore ... 10 



4. Cotton imports into the United Kingdom ... ... 14 



5. Preservation of Bamboos ... ... ... 15 



6. Coeonuts in the Cocos-Keeling Islands ... ... i<S 



7. Rhinoceros Beetles in Soil ... ... ... 18 



8. Knots on Para rubber trees ... ... ... 20 



9. Astychus chrysochloris attacking Para rubber ... 21 

 10 A Castor-oil plant Pest ... ... ... 22 



11. Report on Blumea balsainifcra (from the Imperial In- 



stitute) ... ... ..." ... 23 



12. Mosquito plant, Ocimum viride ... ... 24 



13. Rainfall for December, 1903 ... ... ... 24 



14. Miscellaneous, Notices to Subscribers ... ... 25 



15. Singapore Market Report ... ... ... 26 



16. Exports from Singapore & Penang to Europe & America 27 



17. Meteorological Returns ... ... ... 30 



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