Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



E DITED W$KS| 

 BY 



H. N. EIDLEY, M.A., F.R.S., P.L.S., F.R.H.S. 

 Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S. 



CONTENTS. 



1 Rubber Cultivation on so-called Feat Soil 



2. Cotton in Baram, Sarawak ... 



3. Padi and its Relation to Beri-beri .: '/ 



4. The Cultivated Crotalaria 



5. An American View of Agricultural Exhibitions 



6. Rubber Areas and Production 



7. Planters' Association of Malaya, Minutes of, 



8. . List of Prize Winners of the Penang Show 



9. Weather Reports ... ... 



From the first of January, 1909 

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