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No.  8.] 
AUGUST,  1903. 
VOL.  II. 
AGRICULTURAL  RULLETTN 
OF  THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED  MALAY  STATES. 
EDITED  BY 
H.  N.  RIDLEY,  M.  a.,  f.  l.  s., 
Director  of  Botanic  Gardens,  S.  S. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
1.  Cultivation  of  Renantheras  ...  ...  ...  243 
2.  Fencing  of  Main  Trunk  Line  Federated  Malay  States 
Railways  ..  ...  ...  ...  245 
3.  I'he  Growth  of  Murva  Fibre  ...  ...  ...  246 
4.  Keeping  Land  clean  from  weeds  ...  ...  248 
Washed  Soils :_How  to  prevent  and  reclaim  them  ...  250 
Agriculture  in  the  Cameroons^and  Togoland  ...  260 
7.  Insects  destroyed  through’ Luminous  Snares  ...  261 
8.  Rubber  planting' in  Mexico  ...  ...  ...  262 
g.  La  Esperanza  Rubber  Co.  ...  ...  ...  263 
10.  Rubber  Tapping  Experiments  in  the  Botanic  Gardens...  264 
11.  Meteorological  Returns  ...  ...  ...  267 
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