604 
1 am afraid that there is rather a wide 
breaeh between these two things and I would not have thought of 
fvnnM | m ?h y0U ° n 16 f ub J ectj but that one told me that you 
would be the man to ask. J 
T an >' 0M P lease > ,g |ve me any advice as to the treatment of the 
M<in so as to make it soft and pliant and suitable for use in 
making bags etc. 
I should be so very obliged if you could help me. 
Yours faithfully, 
S. H. LANGSTON. 
of rSV v Ve , ad personally no experience in the preparation 
: s ba S s - »or coild I get any information on the 
subject from the Singapore Museum. I have, however noted from 
thTheTl W ° r S r t he Llbrar y that !n curing alligator's skins, onlv 
wardsaT’d fla M S are USed ’ and these sf eeped in lime and after- 
ol| d - d ' Montague Brown in his Taxidermy gives the 
following recipes for preserving skins generally 
PRESERVATIVE SOAP: 
Whiting or chalk ... .. 1^ lbs 
White Windsor or common Curd soap l lb. 
Chloride of lime 
Tincture of musk 
and as a PRESERVATIVE POWDER— 
Burnt alum ... 
Saltpetre 
‘ * * ... * LJ CM. 
1 ,ii,,k i “ , * r "* — 
.fer '“ ter “■ this 
... I oz. 
... h OZ. 
■ . 4 parts. 
...I part. 
PARA RUBBER STUMPS. 
The Editor, Klang, 3 rd December , i 9 o 3 , 
' Agricutural Bulletin. 
Dear Sir,— Referring to your article on Para Rubber Stumps in 
the last number 13) of the Agricultural Bulletin, page 552, you 
which fulivTn t0 u ? ar ° f my ex P enence in that connection 
which luyy confirms what you say. 
I have transplanted Rubber trees, three and more years old all 
ol more than 2 inch, diameter, stumped about 6 feet from ground 
A slanting clean cut seems the best. Closing the same wifh clay 
hoT' g , W f mv ■ habit !t t00k almost four weeks before an! 
shoots were to be noticed, but after that time, generally up to fivd 
appeared at once. One of these has always proved^y^ far the 
nerdav Th greW 1 " S °Tf CaS6P at the ra ‘ e ° f a,most one ind > 
shco. had r 11 T 5 , rap i d 8ir th is from 8 t0 10 days after the 
shoo, had fully developed. After three months these old stumps 
