AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
•OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. i.] JANUARY, 1906. [Vol. V. 
EDITORIAL. 
The Editor would always be glad to receive correspondence or 
notes on Agricultural or Horticul ural subjects for the Bulletin and 
also photographs of plants or cultivation. He would call the atten- 
tion of planters and others to the fact that when the Bulletin was 
started in its present form, many were the promises of support in 
these matters. During the past year hardly a note has been sent 
for the Bulletin by any of those who might reasonably have been 
expected to send some, while constantly articles of interest are 
heard of as published by them in fugacious daily papers. 
The Bulletin has now a very large circulation all over the world, 
and it is preserved in all the bigger Libraries in the world, so that 
all articles published in it are always accessible to the public inter- 
ested in agriculture, and always will be. Articles sent to news- 
papers, on the other hand, practically disappear as soon as they 
are printed, and are never permanently accessible. The progress 
of the agriculture of the Malay Peninsula of late years has been 
strikingly rapid, and is a matter of the greatest interest and it is of 
some importance that the various steps in its advance and the 
suggestions of planters and others for its improvement should be 
properly recorded. The correspondence to the Journal has, as will 
be seen by the Index, fallen off during the last two years to a very 
large extent. Everything received is printed as fast as the Printing 
Office can turn it out, but the amount received is smaller and 
smaller each year. 
The Editor hopes that this year more correspondence, notes and 
articles may be sent and also that good photographs of planting or 
other subjects suitable for reproducing in the Bulletin may be 
forwarded to the Office of the Bulletin. — Editor. 
Exporting Seed of Para Rubber. 
As it is well known the seed of the Para Rubber tree deterio- 
rates very rapidly after it is ripe and soon loses its germinating 
power, it is not always easy to send seed long distances without a 
