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mineral wealth which may be indented upon by the cultivator for 

 thousands of years." This must be true of other old coffee lands 

 also; and, however unsuited they may be for replanting with coffee, 

 there is no good reason why rubber and other products should not 

 do well on them. That they do well has been amply demonstrated 

 in Ceylon. — Cor., M. Mail, 



VaUambrosa. 



The output of rubber from the VaUambrosa Rubber Co's estate 

 for the year ending 31st March was 39,113 lbs., against the 

 Manager's estimate of 25,000 lbs. 



Experiments in Krian. 



1 imes of Malaya, 

 May \Oth> 1906. 



Mr. CARRUTHERS, Director of Agriculture, has gone to Krian, 

 where he has started some experiments to eradicate weeds in water- 

 ways and drains by spraying. Another reason for the journey, says 

 our Kuala Lumpur contemporary, is to enable the Director to con- 

 tinue his investigations into the life history of a moth the caterpillar 

 of which has destroyed the padi crop in Krian ; in some cases only 

 25 per cent, of last year's crop remained. The moth in question 

 belongs to the tribe of Noctuidae. It is small, greyish white, and 

 flies by night. Measures are being taken to combat the pest. 



