No. 8.J 
AUGUST, 1903. 
[Vol. II. 
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
EDITED BY 
H. N. RIDLEY, M. A., F. l. s., 
Director of Botanic Gardens , S. S. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
1. Cultivation of Renantheras ... ... ... 243 
2. Fencing of Main Trunk Line Federated Malay States 
Railways . ... . .. ... 245 
3. The Growth of Murva Fibre ... ... ... 246 
4. Keeping Land clean from weeds ... ... 248 
5. Washed Soils: How to prevent and reclaim them ... 250 
6. Agriculture in the Cameroonsjand Togoland ... 260 
7. insects destroyed through^ Luminous Snares ... 261 
8. Rubber planting in Mexico ... ... ... 262 
9. La Esperanza Rubber Co. . . ... ... 263 
10. Rubber Tapping Experiments in the Botanic Gardens... 264 
11. Meteorological Returns ... ... 267 
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