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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 [.and clean from weeds ... ... 248 
5. Washed Soils: How to prevent and reclaim them ... 250 
6. Agriculture in the Cameroons and Togoland ... 260 
Insects destroyed through Luminous Snares ... 261 
Rubber planting in Mexico ... ... ... 262 
9. La Esperanza Rubber Co. ... ... ... 263 
10. Rubber Tapping Experiments in the Botanic Gardens... 264 
11. Meteorological Returns ... ... 26; 
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