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The duties of Honorary Secretary, Selangor, for the Agri- 
Horticultural Show, were carried out by me. I have to thank the 
Railway authorities for their co-operation and the facilities they 
gave. 
During the year the notes gathered referring to the methods of 
padi planting in Krian were prepared for publication as Bulletin 
No. 12 of the department. Several visits were paid to Krian while 
the rice was under cultivation, and the necessity for carrying out 
experiments to try and improve the poorer lands of Krian was 
pointed out to Government. A grant of $2,000 has now been given 
and this will be spent during the forthcoming year. 
It is hoped to drain a considerable portion of the peaty land in 
the Simpang Tiga district, and to improve the cultivation of padi on 
those lands which are considered fair, but which yield but a poor crop. 
H. C. PRATT. 
Government Entomologist, F.M.S. 
Report of the Mycologist for the Year 1910. 
I assumed my duties on the 1 8 th of August. The first month 
of service was devoted to getting the laboratory and literature into 
working order, to dealing with local correspondence and to establish- 
ing communication with other tropical Agricultural Departments, 
and to visiting rubber estates for the purpose of becoming acquainted 
with the conditions under which Hevea brasiliensis is cultivated in 
the Federated Malay States. Ten estates were visited during that 
period. 
Later work has been directed towards a study of the “ die-back ” 
disease, of the common root, disease and of other diseases of Para 
rubber, to investigations on certain fungi which were associated with 
pathological effects of the plant for the purpose of ascertaining their 
capacity for causing disease, to investigations on fungi which are 
parasitic on robusta coffee, camphor, tapioca and Ceara rubber, to a 
study of bacterial disease of tomato and potato, to the answer- 
ing of correspondence, which consisted mainly in the diagnosing 
of pathological effects caused by fungi and by physiological in- 
fluences, and to visiting estates for the purpose of recommending 
treatment for disease. 
The laboratory is at the present time not sufficiently well-equipped 
for the study of micro-organisms which are associated with disease. 
The library is well-equipped, both in periodicals and in standard 
works on mycology. 
FUNGUS DISEASES. 
Four and one-half months were available for work up to the end 
of the year, and this afforded time to commence investigations on the 
“ die-back " fungus, on the common root fungus and on the “ thread- 
blight ” fungus of Para rubber. My investigations on the “die-back” 
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