No. i.J 



JANUARY, 1905. 



[Vol. IV. 



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. Notes on Planting Para Rubber in Johore ... ... I 



2. Mangrove Swamps in the Federated Malay States, by 



H. FtfRNIVALL ... ... ... 3 



3. On a Sample of Cotton grown in Singapore ... 5 



4. Fibres — (Continued) ... ... .. 6 



5. Rubber Vines in South Annam .. . ... ... 10 



6. A Memorandum of Casuarina Equiseti folia, its Cultiva- 



tion and Treatment ... ... ... 1 r 



7. Coagulation of the Latex of Ficus Elastica, by P. j. 



Burgess ... ... ... ... i<s 



8. Miscellaneous, Notices to Subscribers ... ... ig 



9. Rainfall for January, 1905 ... ... ... 20 



10. Singapore Market Report ... ... ... 21 



1 [. Export Telegram to Europe and America . ..22 



12, Meteorological Returns ... ... ... 25 



13. Meteorological Observations, General Hospital. Serem- 

 ban, for the month of December, 1904 ... 



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