AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. 9.] SEPTEMBER, 1907. [Vol. VI. 
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF AGRI- 
CULTURE F. M. S., FOR THE YEAR 1906. 

The second year’s record of the Department of Agriculture, 
Federated Malay States, is like the first annual report to a great 
extent an account of the work of organisation and equipment. 
The department still suffers from lack of suitable quarters, and 
the year’s work was carried on under difficulties owing to want 
of necessary accommodation and also to the fact that the offices 
of the officials of the department were some miles apart. This 
inconvenience will shortly be removed, when the laboratories 
and office buildings of the department, now' being built at the 
Swettenham Road Experimeht Plantations, are completed. 
A great deal of scientific work having an important practical 
bearing on the various agricultural industries of the Peninsula 
had to be either investigated cursorily or postponed. With only 
one scientific worker to undertake the investigation of problems 
of plant disease, chemistry, meteorology, etc,, and at the same 
time to carry on a large number of routine duties as Director of 
Agriculture, this was unavoidable. 
During the latter part of the year a Government Chemist 
and an Entomologist were appointed, attached to the Institute 
for Medical Research, and the technical knowledge of these 
officials was to some extent placed at the disposal of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. The Chemist, however, had a large 
amount of Public Analyst’s work to overtake, and consequently 
was only able to do agricultural work of the most pressing 
character. His report in regard to this latter work is appended. 
The Entomologist, who arrived in September, was able to 
devote more time but had in addition to his agricultural disease 
preventive work to carry on investigations in medical pathology 
and therapeutics. 
