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PALL OP HAIL IN ULU LANGAT. 
KAJANG, 
Selangor, 8th March , 1904. 
Dear Sir, 
At 3 p.m. on March 2nd, 1904, a violent storm swept over the 
district of Ulu Langat. When it struck Kajang it did considerable 
damage blowing down thirty trees in the District Officer’s garden 
and about the same number elsewhere in the town. The wind was 
high and a good deal of rain fell, and, with the rain, a heavy shower 
of hailstones. Some of them were collected bv the peons in the 
District Office and brought to me. They were about half an inch 
long and about a quarter of an inch in thickness. I had always 
believed that the Malay Peninsula was exempt from hailstorms, 
but this occurrence shows that they are not impossible. 
I remain, 
Yours very truly, 
C. W. HARRISON, 
Acting District Officer, 
Ulu Langat. 
The Kditor, 
“ Agricultural Bulletin, ” 
Singapjre. 
The occurrence of hail in the Peninsula is certainly very rare. 
Perhaps some of our readers can recall similar cases but none have 
come within my own observation. — {Editor.) 
A NEW POPULAR WORK ON COCOA. 
Mr. HARRISON sends us a small popular work entitled iC The food 
of the Gods”, a popular account of cocoa, by Mr. BRANDON HEAD. 
The little work is prettily illustrated with photographs and other 
pictures, and maps showing the whole of the history of cocoa, cul- 
tivation implements, and the plant itself of which there is a good 
coloured figure and also illustrations of Messrs. Cadbury’s factory 
at Bournville. Though the work is perhaps hardly adequate to 
the needs of the cocoa-planter, as a popular account of the history 
cultivation and manufacture of chocolate it contains a good deal of 
interesting matter and is very well got up. 
Editor 
A CATERPILLAR ATTACKING 
PEPPER PLANTS. 
A correspondent sends from Port Dickson some caterpillars 
found devouring pepper, eating the base of the leaves and young 
