PROSPECTUS 
OF THE 
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Straits and Federated Malay States. 
Since 1891 a Bulletin dealing with Agri-Horticulture and other 
cognate subjects has been published by the Gardens Department 
at irregular intervals. Up to the present some nine numbers have 
been published and of their utility there can be no doubt : indeed, 
so much have they been appreciated by the Planters in the Colony, 
the Federated Malay States and others, that a desire has been ex- 
pressed that, having regard to the large and increasing number of 
Agriculturists and others taking an interest in Agriculture, the time 
has now come when something more than the Bulletin mentioned 
above is required. 
2. It is now proposed to publish a monthly Bulletin, which shall 
incorporate the old one, and as far as possible enlarge its scope bv 
making it the medium for the exchange and record of Planters' 
experiences in all that pertains to their interests. 
3. The lines on which it will be conducted will follow to a large 
extent those of similar publications in other Countries, such as the 
Agricultural Bulletins of Australia and some of the West Indian 
Islands, especially Jamaica, and it will among other things in- 
clude : — & 
(a) Leading Articles by the Editor and others. 
(b) Articles on borestry, Labour Supply, Soils, etc , etc. 
(■ c ) Extracts. 
(d) Entomological Notes, Insect and Fungus Pests, etc. 
(e) Reports of Meetings of Planters' Associations and their 
Annual Reports. Reports on Agricultural Shows in the 
Colony or Federated Malay States. 
■■ (/ ) Notes and queries. 
(g) Correspondence. 
(/z) Market and Trade Reports. 
(z) Weather Reports. 
in fact its pages will be open to the widest possible extent to 
subjects of interest to the Planter, for whom in the main it is chiefly 
intended ; it therefore cannot be too strongly urged that to make ft 
a success, and of real use to them, each one should make a point of 
writing something, however small, each month, and thus in a word 
make it a Planters’ Paper for Planters. 
