No. 9. j 
SEPTEMBER, 1904. 
[Vol. 111 . 
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
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FEDERATED MALAY STATES 
EDITED BY 
H. N. RIDLEY, m.a., f.l.s., - 
Director oj Botanic Gardens , S. S. 
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CONTENTS. 
Experimental Tapping of Para Rubber Trees at the 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore, by R. Derky 
Methods of Tapping Rubber Trees and Collecting 
Latex, by P. J. BURGESS 
Value of Malacca Rubber, by the Resident Councillor 
Malacca 
Rubbe r Prospects 
Miscellaneous, Notices to Subscribers 
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Rainfall for September, 1904 
Singapore Market Report 
Export Telegram to Europe and America . . . 
Meteorological Returns 
Meteorological Observations, General Hospital, 
ban, for the month of August, 1904 
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