AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



No. i.] JANUARY, 1906. [Vol. V. 



EDITORIAL. 



The Editor would always be glad to receive correspondence or 

 notes on Agricultural or Horticul ural subjects for the Bulletin and 

 also photographs of plants or cultivation. He would call the atten- 

 tion of planters and others to the fact that when the Bulletin was 

 started in its present form, many were the promises of support in 

 these matters. During the past year hardly a note has been sent 

 for the Bulletin by any of those who might reasonably have been 

 expected to send some, while constantly articles of interest are 

 heard of as published by them in fugacious daily* papers. 



The Bulletin has now a very large circulation all over the world, 

 and it is preserved in all the bigger Libraries in the world, so that 

 all articles published in it are always accessible to the public inter- 

 ested in agriculture, and always will be. Articles sent to news- 

 papers, on the other hand, practically disappear as soon as they 

 are printed, and are never permanently accessible. The progress 

 of the agriculture of the Malay Peninsula of late years has been 

 strikingly rapid, and is a matter of the greatest interest and it is of 

 some importance that the various steps in its advance and the 

 suggestions of planters and others for its improvement should be 

 properly recorded. The correspondence to the Journal has, as will 

 be seen by the Index, fallen off during the last two years to a very 

 large extent. Everything received is printed as fast as the Printing 

 Office can turn it out, but the amount received is smaller and 

 smaller each year. 



The Editor hopes that this year more correspondence, notes and 

 articles may be sent and also that good photographs of planting or 

 other subjects suitable for reproducing in the Bulletin may be 

 forwarded to the Office of the Bulletin. — Editor. 



Exporting Seed of Para Rubber. 



As it is well known the seed of the Para Rubber tree deterio- 

 rates very rapidly after it is ripe and soon loses its germinating 

 power, it is not always easy to send seed long distances without a 



