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Golden Hope Estate, 

 Klang, tith July, /go 4. 



To the Editor, 



Agricultural Bulletin, Singapore. 



Dear Sir, -In ease any of your readers arc still interested in 

 any way in the now-a-days much despised cultivation of Liberian 

 Coffee, either as a catch crop or otherwise, I am sending you a few- 

 particulars of results of a year's working on this estate up to the 

 end of last month. 



The acreage actually planted with Liberian Coffee is 300 acres. 

 This was planted originally 10' x 10'. 



1 he total amount of rice coffee shipped (representing the cherry 

 picked during the 12 months in question) was 2,404 piculs or more 

 than an average of 8 piculs per acre over the whole estate. 



One clearing of 27 acres gave over 13 piculs per acre, another ot 

 10 acres gave 11.20 piculs per acre, and a third of 30 acres gave 

 over 10 piculs per acre. 



The average age of the coffee is 8 years. The clearing that gave 

 13 piculs per acre will be 8 years old in August next. 



No manure or dressing of any sort has ever been put into the 

 soil, neither has the soil been dug over. 



This is the second year in succession that an average of more 

 than 8 piculs of rice coffee per acre over the whole estate has been 

 obtained and it looks more than probable that the current year's 

 working will show as good results. Of course the soil is rich allu- 

 vial soil. 



I have, etc., 

 EDMUND B. PRIOR. 



New Publications on Rubber. 



Mr. STANLEY Arden's well known Pamphlet on Hevea Brasi- 

 liensis has been translated into French by Air. ClBOT, with annota- 

 tions by the translator and the 'additions of several plates taken 

 from M. CALLET'S work on Para Rubber. 



Mr. WiLDEMAN, the Conservator of the Botanic Gardens, Brussels, 

 is publishing a work on the Laticiferous Leaves of the Congo, well 

 illustrated by coloured plates of Landolphias and Carpodini. 



RUBBER PRICES AND OTHER NOTES. 



Quite an extensive correspondence has been carried on about the 

 present high prices of rubber and its probable fall, some of which we 

 reprint here. I do not suppose that any planter expects the extra- 

 ordinarily high prices of the best Para biscuits to keep up. Every 



