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mineral wealth which may be indented upon by the cultivator for 
thousands of years. 1 ’ This must be true of other old coffee lands 
also; and, however unsuited they may be for replanting with coffee, 
there is no good reason why rubber and other products should not 
do well on them. That they do well has been amply demonstrated 
in Ceylon. — Cor,, M . Mail, 
Vallambrosa. 
The output of rubber from the Vallambrosa Rubber Co s estate 
for the year ending 31st March was 39,113 ^s., against the 
Manager’s estimate of 25,000 lbs. 
Experiments in Krian. 
1 imes of Malaya , 
May 10 th> 1 90 6. 
Mr. Carruthers, Director of Agriculture, has gone to Krian, 
where he has started some experiments to eradicate weeds in water- 
ways and drains by spraying. Another reason for the journey, says 
our Kuala Lumpur contemporary, is to enable the Director to con- 
tinue his investigations into the life history of a moth the caterpillar 
of which has destroyed the padi crop in Krian ; in some cases only 
25 per cent, of last year’s crop remained. The moth in question 
belongs to the tribe of Noctuidae. It is small, greyish white, and 
flies by night. Measures are being taken to combat the pest. 
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