No. 3-] 



AGRICULTURAL 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. 



Page. 



1. A brief Rubber Review ... ... ... St 



2. Rubber in " First Hands" ... ... ... 82 



3. Recovery of Para rubber Trees destroyed by rue ... 83 



4. Castilloa Returns ... ... ... ... 84 



5. Rubber News from Manaos ... ... ... 85 



6. Notes from the Bulletin of the Imperial Institute ... 85 



7. Encouragement of Agriculture among Natives ... 90 



8. Note on Jelutong ... ... ... ... 91 



9. A Coconut Pest ... ... ... ... 92 



10. Tomato Disease ... ... ... ... 93 



11. Farther Paper in connection with the subject of Cotton 



Cultivation in the Federated Malay States ... 94 



12. Minutes of Meeting of the Committee of Agri-Horti- 



cultural Show held at Kuala Lumpur on 1st Feb., 1904 99 



13. Fall of Hail in Ulu Langat — A new popular work on 



Cocoa — A Caterpillar attacking Pepper Plants ... 10 1 



14. On the Preparation of Rubber ... ... 102 



15. Rubber, Gutta-percha and Balata, by FRANZ Clout ... 104 



16. Miscellaneous. Notices to Subscribers ... ... 104 



17. Rainfall for February, 1904 — Singapore Market Report 105 

 1 8. Exports from Singapore & Penang to Europe & America 106 

 19. Meteorological Returns ... ... ... 109 



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