No. 12.] 



DECEMBER, 1910. 



Vol. IX. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



KDITED BY 

 N. RIDLEY, M.A., F.K.S., F.L.3., F.R.H.S. 



Director of Botanic Gardens^ S.S. 



A Preliminary Note on the P'ungus Causing the Die-Back 



Disease of Cacao and of Para Rubber 

 A Bacterial Disease of Potato and Tomato 

 A Handbook of Fungus Disease of West Indian Plants 

 Planting of Trees 



The Sterilization of Soil as a Means to Increase its Fertility 

 The Control of Scale Insects by Fungoid Parasites 

 Cotton in German East Africa 

 Purification of Brackish Water on Estates 

 Damars . . 



Oil from Rubber Tree Seeds 

 Obituary 



Personal - . . . . . . . 



Minutes of Meeting 

 Export Telegrams 

 Weather Reports 

 Number of Trees in a Acre of Ground set at Regular Distance 

 Apart in Square 



From the first of January, 1910 



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