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PALL OF HAIL IN ULU LANGAT. 



Kajang, 

 Selangor, 8th March, iyoj. 



Dear Sir, 



At 3 p.m. on March 2nd, 1 904, a violent storm swept over the 

 district of Ulu Langat. When it struck Kajang it did considerable 

 damage blowing down thirty trees in the District Officer's garden 

 and about the same number elsewhere in the town. The wind was 

 high and a good deal of rain fell, and. with the rain, a heavy shower 

 of hailstones. Some of them were collected by the peons in the 

 District Office and brought to me. They were about half an inch 

 long and about a quarter of an inch in thickness. I had always 

 believed that the Malay Peninsula was exempt from hailstorms, 

 but this occurrence shows that they are not impossible. 



I remain. 



Yours very truly, 



C. W. HARRISON, 



Acting District Officer, 

 Ulu Langat. 



The Editor, 



" Agricultural Bulletin. " 



Singapore. 



The occurrence of hail in the Peninsula is certainly very rare. 

 Perhaps some of our readers can recall similar cases but none have 

 come within my own observation. — {Editor .) 



A NEW POPULAR WORK ON COCOA. 



Mr. Harrison sends us a small popular work entitled " The food 

 of the Gods", a popular account of cocoa, by Mr. BRANDON HEAD. 

 The little work is prettily illustrated with photographs and other 

 pictures, and maps showing the whole of the history of cocoa, cul- 

 tivation implements, and the plant itself of which there is a good 

 coloured figure and also illustrations of Messrs. CadbURY's factory 

 at Bournville. Though the work is perhaps hardlv adequate to 

 the needs of the cocoa-planter, as a popular account of the history 

 cultivation and manufacture of chocolate it contains a good deal ol 

 interesting matter and is very well got up. 



Editor. 



A CATERPILLAR ATTACKING 

 PEPPER PLANTS. 



A correspondent sends from Port Dickson some caterpillar^ 

 io'ind devouring pepper, eating the base of the h aves and young 



