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The chillies are well nigh exhausted ahout four months from the time 

 of planting. They are generally succeeded by a crop of sweet potatoes, 

 after which the land is allowed to lie fallow for a couple of months. 

 Then the weeds are ploughed up and used as green manure mixed with 

 farm -yard compost. 



Briefly the order may be stated categorically. 



1. Chilli. 



2. Some leguminous plant. 



3. Sweet potatoe. 



4. Tapioca. 



Indigo is a favourite leguminous plant to be cultivated. It 

 requires very careful manuring, and generally yields three crops of 

 cuttings — after which the land is allowed to rest for a few months. 



By careful tillage and judicious manuring, these Chinese vegetable 

 gardeners are able to make use of the poorest land available and to obtain 

 good returns for their toil and investment. When lalang land has been 

 thus reclaimed, it is not unprofitable to plant it up with rubber be- 

 tween the vegetables grown. — Dr. Livi Boon Heng. 



FIFTH JOINT ANNUAL AGRI-HORTICULTURAL 

 SHOW OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, 

 HELD AT KUALA LUMPOR 

 10th, 11th, and 12th, AUGUST, 1908. 



Kuala Lumpor Agri-Horticultural Show 1908. 



The fifth Agri-Horticultural Show of the Malay Peninsula was held 

 in Kuala Lumpor on the 10th, 11th, and 12th August. The Show 

 which was opened by His Excellency Sir John Anderson K. c. M, G. 

 was favoured by excellent weather and was by general consent consider- 

 ed very successful. 



Working arrangements. — The system of working this year's Show 

 was somewhat different to that of previous years in that the whole 

 management of the Show was undertaken by one small Committee of 

 nine members. No Sub-Committees were appointed with the excep- 

 tion of a committee of three who drew up the prize list in the native 

 art section, and the Horse Committee which had entire charge of that 

 portion of the Show. 



In place of the usual sub-committees in each division Stewards 

 were appointed for each section, whose duty it was to attend to the 

 arrangements of the exhibits on arrival, and facilitate the work of the 

 Judges in their section. 



This change in working arrangements is I think one to be 

 recommended, the small committee is more workable, and the selection 

 of Stewards each having a definite section to look after is preferable to 

 the 'old system of having a sub-committee of say five persons, who 

 each left the work to the other with the result on many occasions when 

 most needed, they were not to be found, 



