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The duties of Honorary Secretary, Selangor, for the Agri- 

 Horticultural Show, were carried out by me. I have to thank the 

 Railway authorities for their co-operation and the facilities they 

 gave. 



During the year the notes gathered referring to the methods of 

 padi planting in Krian were prepared for publication as Bulletin 

 No. 12 of the department. Several visits were paid to Krian while 

 the rice was under cultivation, and the necessity for carrying out 

 experiments to try and improve the poorer lands of Krian was 

 pointed out to Government. A gi'ant of $2,000 has now been given 

 and this will be spent during the forthcoming year. 



It is hoped to drain a considerable portion of the peaty land in 

 the Simpang Tiga district, and to improve the cultivation of padi on 

 those lands which are considered fair, but which yield but a poor crop. 



H. C. PRATT. 

 Government Entomologist, F.M.S. 



Report of the Mycologist for the Year 1910. 



I assumed my duties on the l8th of August. The first month 

 of service was devoted to getting the laboratory and literature into 

 working order, to dealing with local correspondence and to establish- 

 ing communication with other tropical Agricultural Departments, 

 and to visiting rubber estates for the purpose of becoming acquainted 

 with the conditions under which Hevea brasiliensis is cultivated in 

 the Federated Malay States. Ten estates were visited during that 

 period. 



Later work has been directed towards a study of the "die-back " 

 disease, of the common root disease and of other diseases of Para 

 rubber, to investigations on certain fungi which were associated with 

 pathological effects of the plant for the purpose of ascertaining their 

 capacity for causing disease, to investigations on fungi which are 

 parasitic on robusta coffee, camphor, tapioca and Ceara rubber, to a 

 study of bacterial disease of tomato and potato, to the answer- 

 ing of correspondence, which consisted mainly in the diagnosing 

 of pathological effects caused by fungi and by physiological in- 

 fluences, and to visiting estates for the purpose of recommending 

 treatment for disease. 



The laboratory is at the present time not sufficiently well-equipped 

 for the study of micro-organisms which are associated with disease. 



The library is well-equipped, both in periodicals and in standard 

 works on mycology. 



FUNGUS DISEASES. 



Four and one-half months were available for work up to the end 

 of the year, and this afforded time to commence investigations on the 

 " die-back " fungus, on the common root fungus and on the "thread- 

 blight " fungus of Para rubber. My investigations on the "die-back'^ 



