PROSPECTUS 



OF THE 



AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Straits and Federated Malay States. 



SINCE 1891 a Bulletin dealing with Agri-Horticulture and other 

 cognate subjects has been published by the Gardens Department 

 at irregular intervals. Up to the present some nine numbers have 

 been published and of their utility there can be no doubt : indeed, 

 so much have they been appreciated by the Planters in the Colony, 

 the Federated Malay States and others, that a desire has been ex- 

 pressed that, having regard to the large and increasing number of 

 Agriculturists and others taking an interest in Agriculture, the time 

 has now come when something more than the Bulletin mentioned 

 above is required. 



2. It is now proposed to publish a monthly Bulletin, which shall 

 incorporate the old one, and as far as possible enlarge its scope by 

 making it the medium for the exchange and record of Planters' 

 experiences in all that pertains to their interests. 



3. The lines on which it will be conducted will follow to a large 

 extent those of similar publications in other Countries, such as the 

 Agricultural Bulletins of Australia and some of the West Indian 

 Islands, especially Jamaica, and it will among other things in- 

 clude : — 



(cl) Leading Articles by the Editor and others. 



{b) Articles on Forestry, Labour Supply, Soils, etc , etc. 



(c) Extracts. 



(d) Entomological Notes, Insect and Fungus Pests, etc 



(e) Reports of Meetings of Planters' Associations and their 



Annual Reports. Reports on Agricultural Shows in the 

 Colony or Federated Malay States. 



(f) Notes and queries. 



(g) Correspondence. 



(h) Market and Trade Reports. 

 (1) Weather Reports. 



In fact its pages will be open to the widest possible extent to 

 subjects of interest to the Planter, for whom in the main it is chiefly 

 intended ; it therefore cannot be too strongly urged that to make it 

 a success, and of real use to them, each one should make a point of 

 writing something, however small, each month, and thus in a word 

 make it a Planters' Paper for Planters. 



