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the fungal hyphae can gain an entry into the bark. The experiments 
have yet a couple of months to run before completion, so that it is 
perhaps too soon to say very much about the results, but up to date 
the treatment has resulted in complete success, and the cases of 
attack have been reduced to a few individual instances, and these are 
due probably to the careless application of Bordeaux. Thus in one 
instance out of 60,000 treated trees there have so far been only three 
cases of Pink Disease where formerly there would have been hund- 
reds. On estates where Bordeaux mixture has not been used, and 
which therefore act as a check, the disease has been as bad as usual, 
and attacked trees may be put down roughly at something like I per 
cent. Unless the unexpected happens during the next two months we 
have every reason to congratulate ourselves that we have discovered 
how to completely control Pink Disease. As soon as the experiments 
are quite finished the whole subject will be written up in detail in the 
Planter’s Chronicle. I may, however, say here that the cost of the 
method will work out at about half a pie per tree. Where Pink 
Disease is still prevalent, measures are being generally taken to deal 
with it as soon as it is noticed, and most estates have a pest gang 
going round and cutting it out. Attempts at curing it by cutting out 
the area affected, washing the wound with Bordeaux mixture and 
tarring it, have generally failed, and, as far as I am able to ascertain, 
some 70 per cent of such treated areas developed the disease again 
in the following year. I still believe that, if carefully done and super- 
vised, this method is a correct one, but under, estate conditions it has 
not proved 'successful. Consequently the affected branch should be 
cut off at least 18 inches below the point of attack. This is best done 
with a mallet and a chisel, a neater and smoother cut being made 
with this than with a saw. In the case of an attack on the main stem 
unless 3 feet of tapable trunk can be left, it is better to cut the tree 
down close to the ground and get a sucker from low down to replace it. 
(U. P. A. S. I. Scientific Officer’s Second Tour in Cochin) Extrac- 
ted from Tropical Agriculturist, Ceylon, Nov. 1910, p. 462. 
BAILEY MEMORIAL FUND. 
The Planters’ Association of Malaya. 
Kuala Lumpur, 25th November , 1910 
Dear Sir, 
The recent lamented death of Mr. W. W. Bailey, to whose energy 
and foresight the present state of the rubber industry in the Malay Pen- 
insula is in a great measure due, has suggested to the Members of this 
Association the creation of a memorial, to perpetuate his name in the 
country, to which he gave the best of his life. 
