No. 9.] 



SEPTEMBER, 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 Garcle.m^ S.S. 



Pagf. 



Estate Sanitation ... ... ... ... ... 366 



Instructions to Managers and Assistants on Rubber Estates ... 369 



Rubber Fungi ... ... •■• ... ... 380 



The Pine-Apple as a Catch Crop in Rubber Cultivation . . . 384 



Rubber Cultivation in Cochin-China ... ... ... 388 



Rubber in Java .. ... ... 389 



Rubber Notes ... ... ■ . ... ... 389 



Synthetic Rubber ... ... ... ... ... 390 



Toxins ••■ ••• ■. ••. ... 390 



Rubber Trees and Green Manuring ... ... ... 391 



Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... 391 



Coconut Cultivation in the F. M. S. ... ... ... 392 



Personal ... •• ... ... ... 392 



Minutes of Planters' Association of Malaya ... ... 393 



Singapore Market Reports ... ... ... ... 400 



Export Telegrams ... . . ... ... ... 402 



Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ,.. 404 



From the first of January, 1910 



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