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and Pepper, Insect pests of Cotton, Orange cultivation and Fermen- 

 tation as applied to Agriculture. The Journal is well illustrated by 

 photographs. 



The F. M. S. Agricultural Department, on the initiation of the 

 Perak Resident, will shortly start nurseries and supply natives with 

 sago palm to plant up swampy land. The attaps of the sago palm 

 are of the best quality and cannot be purchased under $45 to $50 

 per 1,000 at present. Malay Mail, Feb. 8th, 1906. 



Notice to Subscribers. 



Owing to the fixing of the exchange of the Dollar at 2/4^. it is 

 necessary to alter the price of the Bulletin to Subscribers outside the 

 Malay Peninsula and Subscribers in India and Europe are requested 

 to take notice that the future price of the Bulletin will be for Subs- 

 cribers in India and Ceylon — Rs. 6 ans. 8 and for Europe 9 Shil- 

 lings per annum. — Editor. 



Rubber Notes. 



Gold Coast. — Mr. Johnson's report of the Botanical and Agri- 

 cultural Department of the Gold Coast for 1904, has just come to 

 hand. He obtained a good valuation for samples of Para rubber 

 though the percentage of resin was higher than it should have been 

 but this was probably due to its having been taken from young trees. 

 Interest is being taken in the planting of this tree, 55,000 seeds 

 were distributed and there was a good demand for them. Samples 

 of the rubber were sent to the St. Louis Exhibition. The rainfall 

 at Aburi is given for ten years, and varies from 32 to 58 inches in 

 the year. This is not at all the climate we should expect Para 

 rubber to grow and thrive in, so that one would be glad to have 

 some returns in the matter of growth of the trees and yield of 

 rubber from such a comparatively dry country. 



GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LIMITED. 

 India Rubber Market Report. 



13, Rood Lane, London, E. C. 

 ^th January, 1906. 



At to-day's auction, 233 packages of Ceylon and Straits Settle- 

 ments Plantation grown rubber were offered, 183 of which were 

 sold. This was a very interesting offering amounting in all to near- 

 ly ten tons, Ceylon contributing about 3J tons and the Straits 6\ 

 tons. There were several good sized parcels both of fine washed 

 crape, sheet and biscuit, an exceptionally attractive one consisting 

 of 33 cases of very fine long sheets cut in strips from the Bukit 

 Rajah Co., for which, however, the owners' idea was not obtainable 



