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Agricultural Bulletin 



STRAITS ^ 

 FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITE1 > 



H. N. RIDLEY, m,a.,f.k.S„ f.l.s., f.k. 

 Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S 



CONTENTS. 



Clean Weeding V. Tephrosia. 



Various Notes. ... ... .... 



Estate Marks on Plantation Rubber-. 

 Precocity in Rubber Trees. 

 A New Use For Jelutong Rubber. v . ' ... 



Agri-Horticultural Show, 1909. ... -* r >'\..-. : 



A Cricket (Brachytrupes Achatinus) Attacking Young Tapioca 

 and Rubber. ... 



Report on a Sample of Oitronella Oil. 



A New Rubber Journal. ... v ••• 



Fibre Congress at Sourabaya in, 1910 



Minutes of a General Meeting of the Planters' Association of 



Malaya. - ... ; r .;. . JSMK«^' 



Obituary. ... ... ... 



Coffee as A Catchcrop with Rubber. "... - 



Rain Fall at Bang Nara Siam. 



Comparative Rubber Export Tabic. 



John Haddon & Co's. Special Produce Letter 



Gow, Wilson and Stanton India Pubber Market Reports 



Ceylon, Straits and Malay States Rubber Reports } 4j 



Weather Reports 



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