Xo.  6.] 
JUNE,  1903. 
[VOL.  11. 
ACRICULTURAL  BULLETIN 
OF  THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED  MALAY  STATES, 
EDITED  BY 
H.  X.  RIDLEY,  M.A.,  F.L.S., 
Director  of  Botanic  Gardens  and  Forests,  S.  S. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
1.  Jelutong  ...  ...  ...  ...  191 
2.  Rubber  Tapping  in  Alalacca  ...  ...  ...  191 
3.  Valuation  of  Rubbers 
(a)  From  the  Botanic  Gardens,  Singapore  ...  192 
[b]  From  Negri  Sembilan  ...  ...  193 
4.  Yield  of  Para  Rubber  in  Ceylon  ...  ...  194 
Oil  of  Para  Rubber  Seeds  ...  ...  ...  196 
The  Mosquito  Plant  ...  ...  ...  196 
Rubber  Planting  and  Exploitation  at  San  Miquel  ...  198 
The  Yield  of  the  Castilloa  Tree  ...  ...  199 
9.  Causes  of  the  deterioration  of  Congo  Rubber  ...  202 
10.  Gentsch’s  “ New  Gutta  Percha ” ...  ...  205 
11.  Coconut  Planting  in  Fiji  ...  ...  ...  207 
12.  Correspondence 
{a)  Cultivation  and  Production  of  Ramie  ...  208 
13.  Notices 
{a)  Tobacco  expert  wanted  for  the  Transvaal.  ...  209 
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