Golden Hope Estate, 
Kiting, 8th July, /goj. 
To the Editor, 
Agricultural Bulletin, Singapore. 
©ear Sir,— -I n case any of your readers are still interested in 
any way in the now-a-days much despised cultivation of Liberian 
Coffee, either as a catch crop or otherwise, 1 am sending you a few 
particulars of results of a year’s working on this estate up to the 
end of last month. 
The acreage actually planted with Liberian Coffee is 300 acres. 
This was planted originally to / x 10'. 
I he total amount of rice coffee shipped (representing the cherry 
picked during the 12 months in question) was 2,404 piculs or more 
than an average of 8 piculs per acre over the whole estate. 
One clearing of 2,7 acres gave over 13 piculs per acre, another of 
10 acres gave 11.20 piculs per acre, and a third of 30 acres gave 
over 10 piculs per acre. 
The average age of the coffee is 8 years. The clearing that gave 
13 piculs per acre will be 8 years old in August next. 
No manure or dressing of any sort has ever been put into the 
soil, neither has the soil been dug over. 
This is the second year in succession that an average of more 
than 8 piculs of rice coffee per acre over the whole estate has been 
obtained and it looks more than probable that the current year’s 
working will show as good results. Of course the soil is rich allu- 
vial soil. 
I have, etc., 
EDMUND ]>, PRIOR. 
New Publications on Rubber. 
Mr. STANLEY Arden’s well known Pamphlet on llevea Brasi- 
liensis has been translated into French by Mr. CiBOT, with annota- 
tions by the translator and the additions of several plates taken 
from M. Callet’S work on Para Rubber. 
Mr. WlLDEMAN, the Conservator of the Botanic Gardens, Brussels, 
is publishing a work on the Laticiferous Leaves of the Congo, well 
illustrated by coloured plates of Landolphias and Carpodini. 
RUBBER BRICES AND OTHER NOTES. 
Quite an extensive correspondence has been carried on about the 
present high prices of rubber and its probable fall, some of which we 
reprint here. I do not suppose that any planter expects the extra- 
ordinarily high prices of the best Para biscuits to keep up. Every 
