sugar pests, etc., were first published in this Bulletin. Then there are 
the results of experiments made at the Gardens, or observations on 
estates to be published. New useful plants to be described, new forms 
of machinery, tools, or buildings to be introduced to the up-to-date 
planter. All this is work that cannot be done in any other way than 
by a monthly or quarterly Bulletin. 
The Straits and F.M.S. Bulletin has ilever been a large sized 
publication owing to the’ ’fact that printing' is expensive here and the 
funds available by the' Editor very small, and had it not been for the 
advertisements obtained if Wotlld have been nedessary for the Bulletin 
to cease to exist some yd&iVagix." 
wi ,/n^-. .si if.' . • in O 
Howevery it has served its purpose small as it has been, and it 
now only remains to bid our readers farewell. — E d. 
