No.9.] 



SEPTEMBER, 1908. 



[Vol. VII. 



Agricultural Bulletin 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



EDITED BY 



H. N. RIDLEY, M.A.,F.B.S., F.L.S., F.R.H.S.. 



Director of Botanic Gardens, S. S. 



AND 



J. B. CARRUTHERS, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 Director of Agriculture & Government Botanist, F.M.S. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



1. Weeding in Para Rubber Cultivation .. ... ... 383 



2. Rate of Growth of Forest Trees in the Federated Malay States ... 386 



3. Banana Fibre Wearing ... ... ... ... ... 39o 



4. Getah Gerip from Pulau Jerajah ... ... ... ... 391 



5. Export of Rubber from Brazil in 1907 ... ... ... 392 



6. A Camphor Pest . ... ... ... ... 394 



7. Minutes of a General Meeting of the Planters' Association of Malaya 395 



8. Batu Tiga District Planters' Association ... ... ... 406 



9. Johore Planters' Association ... .. ... ... 408 



10. Planters' Association of Mal.xya ... ... ... ... 412 



11. Comparative Rubber Export Table ... ... ... ... 414 



12. Singapore Market Report ... .. ... ... 415 



13. Exports Telegrams to Europe and America ... ... ... 416 



14. Gow, Wilson and Stanton India Rubber Market Reports ... 417 



15. Ceylon, Straits and Malay States Rubber Reports ... ... 423 



16. Weather Reports ... ... ... ... ... 426 



To be purchased at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, or from 

 Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited. 

 No. 32 Raffles Place, and 194 Orchard Road, Singapore. 



Singapore : 



Printed at the Methodist Publishing House. 



