No. io.] 



OCTOBER, 1906. 



[Vol. V. 



AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED BY 



H. N. RIDLEY, m. A., F.us, 

 Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S. 

 AND 



J. B. CARRUTHERS, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 Director of Agriculture & Government Botanist, F. M. S. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



1. Synthetic Rubber — By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... 369 



2. Destruction of Rats in Cochin-China — By H. N. Ridley ... ... 373 



3. Rambong Cultivation in the Mediterranean ... ... ... 374 



4. Zedoary Starch— By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... 374 



5. Analyses of various Rubbers— By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... 375 



6. Rubber Notes— By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... 375 



7. Ramie Again ... ... ' ... ... ... ... 376 



8. Cashew Nuts— By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... 377 



9. Mr. Herbert Wright's Lecture at Ratnapura ... ... ... 377 



10. Tapping of Para Rubber Trees on Penang Hill — By W. Peel ... 381 



11. Straits Rubber at the Ceylon Show— By H. N. Ridley ... ... 383 



12. India Rubber Market Report. — Gow, Wilson and Stanton, Limited ... 383 



13. Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ... 3 86 



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