No. 1.] 



JANUARY, 1910. 



Vol. IX. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED BY 



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



Director of Botanic Oardens, S.S. 



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A Peat-Soil Note ... ... ... ... ... i 



Rubber in Liberia ... ... ... ... ... 3 



Para Rubber in French Indo-China ... ... ... 4 



A New Rubber Journal ... ... ... ... 4 



Germination of Hard Seeds ... ... ... ... 5 



Rubber Notes ... ... ... ... ... 5 



Agricultural Progress in Perak, F.M.S. ... ... ... 5 



Tilled and Untilled Soil ... ... ... ... 9 



Pricking Rubber Trees for Latex ... ... ... 11 



The Reward for a Method of Exterminating Termes Gestroi ... 12 



The Exhibition Lectures on Rubber ... ... ... 12 



A Nest of Termes Malayanus with Many Queens ... ... 13 



The World's Future Rubber Supply ... ... ... 13 



Report of the Penang Affri-Horticultural Show ... ... 15 



Minutes of Meeting of the Planters' Association of Malaya ... 23 



Kapar District Planters' Association ... ... ... 30 



Straits Report ... ... ... ... 31 



Export Telegrams ... ... ... ... ... 35 



Market Report ... ... ... ... ... 38 



Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ... 39 



Kuala Trengganu Rain Fall ... ... ... ... 45 



From the first of January, 1910 



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