NO. II.] 



NOVEMBER, 1906. 



[Vol. V. 



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. 

 AND 



J. B. CARRUTHERS, F. R. s. E., f.l.s., 



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



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



1. Malay Peninsula Rubber at the Ceylon Exhibition — By H. N. Ridley ... 393 



2. A device for recording the girth of Para-rubber Trees — By P. J. Burgess 394 



3. Creasoting Rubber — By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... 



4. Diseases of Hevea Braziliensis, Etc. ... ... ... ... 396 



5. Work of the Imperial Institute — By H. N. Ridley ... ... 398 



6. A Disease of Rubber Seedlings — By H. N. Ridley v ... ... 400 



7. Atlas Moth and Rubber Plants— By H. N. Ridley ... ... 401 



8. Para Rubber on the Gold Coast and Exhaustion of Wild Rubber — By 



H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... ... 402 



9 Action of Copper Sulphate on Aquatic Plants — By H. N. Ridley ... 403 



10. Correspondence — Ants attacking Rubber Seedlings — By F. E. Lease ... 408 



11. The Alligator Apple— By E. G. F. Campbell ... ... ... 411 



12. Agricultural Shows in British Africa — By Vise. Mountmorres ... 411 



13. India Rubber Market Report — Govv, Wilson & Stanton, Ltd. 412, 417 & 419 



14. Lewis & Peat's Ceylon, Straits & M. States Plantn. Rubber Report 4 15, 422 & 424 



15. Rainfall for October, 1906 ... ... ... ... 426 



16. Singapore Market Report ... ... ... ... ... 427 



17. Export Telegram to Europe and America ... ... ... 428 



18. Weather Reports ... ••• ... ... ... 431 



19. Meteorological Observations, General Hospital, Seremban, for the month 



of October, 1906 ... ••• ... ... ... 43S 



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