A PHIL, 1909. 



[Vol. VIII. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED 

 BY 



H. N. K1DLEY, M.A..F.K.S., F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 

 Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



1. Clean Weeding V. Tephrosia. .. ... ... ... 131 



2. Various Notes. ... ... ... ... ... 134 



3. Estate Marks on Plantation Rubbers. ... ... .. 137 



4. Precocity in Rubber Trees. ... ... ... ... 138 



5. A New Use For Jelntong Rubber. ... ... ... 139 



6. Agri-Horticultural Show, 1909. ... ... ... ... 139 



7- A Cricket (Brachytrupes Aehatinus) Attacking Young Tapioca 



and Rubber. ... ... ... ... ... 139 



8. Report on a Sample of Citronella Oil. ... ... ... 142 



9. A New Rubber Journal. ... ... ... 143 



10. Fibre Congress at Sourabaya in, 1910 ... ... ... 144 



11. Minutes of a General Meeting of the Planters' Association of 



Malaya. ... ... ... ... ... 145 



12. Obituary. ' ... ... ... ... ... ... 169 



13. Coffee as A Catohcrop with Rubber. ... ... ... 170 



14. Rain Fall at Bang Nara Siam. ... ... ... 171 



15. Comparative Rubber Kxport Table. ... ... 172 



16. John Haddou & Co's. Special Produce Letter ... .. 172 



17. Gow, Wilson and Stanton India Rubber Market Reports ... 174 



18. Ceylon, Straits and Malay States Rubber Reports ... ... 182 



19. Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ... 187 



From the first of January, 1909 



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