DECEMBER, 1909. 



Vol. IX. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OK THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED HV 



H. N. RIDLEY, m.a., f.k.s., f.l.s., f.r.h.s. 

 Director of Botanic Gardens, S.S. 



Page. 



Brazil-Nuts ... ... ... ... ... ... 551 



An Improved Process for Coagulating the Latex of Dyera Costulata 553 



Lawns .... ... ... ... .... ... 557 



Gomphocarpus Semilunatus ... ... ... ... 560 



Tackiness in Rubber ... ... ... ... 561 



Trees Attacked by Termes Gestroi ... ... ... 563 



Analytical Laboratories of Aynsome, Lancashire ... .... 564 



A Fibre Exhibition in Java ... ... ... ... 566 



Netherlands Indian Agricultural Association ... ... 566 



Amazon's Rubber versus Plantation Rubber ... ... 568 



The Zapupe, a New Fibre ... ... ... ... 569 



Rubber Notes ... ... ... ... ... 570 



The Black Hevea Fungus ... ... ... ... 570 



Rubber Companies' Statistics ... ... ... ... 572 



Minutes of Meeting of the Planters Association of Malaya ... 576 



Straits Report .... ... .... ... ... 582 



Export Telegrams ... ... ... ... ... 587 



Market Report ... ... ... ... ... 593 



Meteorology of Penang ... ... ... ... 595 



Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ... 596 



Kuala Trengganu Rain Fall ... ... ... 605 



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