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Selangor Copra from native and Chinese sources is of fair quality 
but contains a good percentage of unripe nut, also sand and other im- 
PUri T e he exports of Copra are to Russia France, Spain and other conti- 
nental ports and recently to the United Kingdom. The exports of coco- 
nut oil from Singapore in 1907 reached 159 801 pikuls of which 40, 16^ 
piculs were imported chiefly from Pontianak. 
The imports into and exports from Singapore in each of the 
Year. 
Imports. 
Exports. 
Piculs. 
Value. 
Piculs. 
Value. 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
9 months of 
1908 
752,371 
643,603 
923,991 
635,385 
927,652 
897,175 
6,090,581 
5,234,079 
7,107,328 
5,215,593 
8,571,039 
6,205,535 
628,099 
49^,364 
776,285 
427,307 
654,869 
781,057 
5,214,877 
4,165,957 
6,086,476 
3,620,755 
6,303,115 
5,529,955 
The Director of Agriculture has stated in ms t 
1907 that this important branch of the Agriculture ot the Merged 
Malay States has increased in acreage by seven per cent dnrmg that 
vear and that the total area under coconuts at the end of the same 
neriod was 112 500 acres. These facts aqd the above figures demon- 
strate the importance of the Copra Industry to the Peninsula and 
surrounding Islands and also shew that there !s a renewed interest in 
not the least important of our agricultural staple industries 
It is hoped that this renewed interest will bung about better 
cultivation and induce growers to take more pains in the preparation 
of their produce for market. T WnjS0N Main . 
VIRUS REMEDIES AGAINST RATS. 
I have carried on experiments for some time past with certain rat 
viruses. I have been successful with Liverpool Virus and think it we 
to make this known to readers of the Agricultural Bulletin. 
I know that many estate bungalows are much infested by at 
and that most of the ordinary remedies have failed, and rn^y on 
nf i-hp dancer of poisoning domestic animals, cannot De usea. 
Stemanag- 8 ^ SanJy Boar! 
animal. 
