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the fungal hyphae can gain an entry into the bark. The experiments 

 have yet a couple of months to run before completion, so that it is 

 perhaps too soon to say very much about the results, but up to date 

 the treatment has resulted in complete success, and the cases of 

 attack have been reduced to a few individual instances, and these are 

 due probably to the careless application of Bordeaux. Thus in one 

 instance out of 60,000 treated trees there have so far been only three 

 cases of Pink Disease where formerly there would have been hund- 

 reds. On estates where Bordeaux mixture has not been used, and 

 which therefore act as a check, the disease has been as bad as usual, 

 and attacked trees may be put down roughly at something like I per 

 cent. Unless the unexpected happens during the next two months we 

 have every reason to congratulate ourselves that we have discovered 

 how to completely control Pink Disease. As soon as the experiments 

 are quite finished the whole subject will be written up in detail in the 

 Planter's Chronicle. I may, however, say here that the cost of the 

 method will work out at about half a pie per tree. Where Pink 

 Disease is still prevalent, measures are being generally taken to deal 

 with it as soon as it is noticed, and most estates have a pest gang 

 going round and cutting it out. Attempts at curing it by cutting out 

 the area affected, washing the wound with Bordeaux mixture and 

 tarring it, have generally failed, and, as far as I am able to ascertain, 

 some 70 per cent of such treated areas developed the disease again 

 in the following 3'ear. I still believe that, if carefully done and super- 

 vised, this method is a correct one, but under estate conditions it has 

 not proved 'successful. Consequently the affected branch should be 

 cut off at least 18 inches below the point of attack. This is best done 

 with a mallet and a chisel, a neater and smoother cut being made 

 with this than with a saw. In the case of an attack on the main stem 

 unless 3 feet of tapable trunk can be left, it is better to cut the tree 

 down close to the ground and get a sucker from low down to replace it. 



(U. P. A. S. I. Scientific Officer's Second Tour in Cochin) Extrac- 

 ted from Tropical Agriculturist, Ceylon, Nov. 1910, p. 462. 



BAILEY MEMORIAL FUND. 



The Planters' Association of Malaya. 



Kuala Lumpur, 23th November, igio. 



Dear Sir, 



The recent lamented death of Mr. W. W. Bailey, to whose energy 

 and foresight the present state of the rubber industry in the Malay Pen- 

 insula is in a great measure due, has suggested to the Members of this 

 Association the creation of a memorial, to perpetuate his name in the 

 country, to which he gave the best of his life. 



