No. 6.] 



Vol. I>L. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED BY 



H. N. RIDLEY, >i.a.. f.r.s., f.l.s,, f.r.h.s. 



Director of Botanic Gardens, S.S. 



Page. 



Historical Notes on the Rubber Industry ... ... . 201 



Chronological Table of the Para Rubber In lustry from 1873 to 1899 ... 213 



Coconuts in Peat Soil ... ... ... ... 214 



Kapok as a Textile ... ... ... ... ... 215 



Rubber in Queensland ... ... ... ... .. 21s 



Another Para-Rubber Fungus ... ... ... ... 216 



Correspondence — Tuba root for Killing Termites ... ... 218 



Manihot Rubber Trees ... .. ... ... ... 219 



Minutes of the Planters' Association of Malaya ... ... ... 221 



Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ... 229 



From the first of January, 1910 



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