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their scheme, which will be treated as confidential, to the Editor, Agn- 
5K Bulletin S. S. & F. M. S. Singapore or to Mr. W; J. Gallagher, 
Office of Director of Agriculture, Kuala Lumpor, h. M. 8. . . 
The reward is intended for the destruction of Termes Gestroi in 
rubber plantations ; an account of which has been already < published m 
the Bulletin, and not for a mere poison such as Arsenic, Corrosive 
sublimate or Nicotine which will destroy any insects which happen to 
be touched by it. The sole difficulty in exterminating Termes Gestroi 
consists in the fact that the main nest lies under ground at an 
unknown spot and from it radiate small tunnels of considerable distance 
by which the termites attack the trees in the plantation. 
Attempts to destroy them at the point of attack are of 
as the insects can retire underground to the nest, and attack other 
^^Competitors should read the accounts of the hfe history of toe 
insect, published in the Bulletin May 1908 p. 157 and March 1909 
page 91. Kottot;. 
beeswax 
CAPSICUMS 
CHILLIES 
COPRA 
GUM BENJAMIN 
GUM COPAL 
JOHN HADDON & CO. SPECIAL 
PRODUCE LETTER 
London, 8th April, 1909. 
Straits Report. 
A good business has been done in all yellow descrip- 
tions, shipments arriving sell well, market outlook is 
good for the next few months. 
The better qualities are scarce and wanted at 50/ -to 
55/-per cwt. Common grades have sold at improved 
rates. 
Market firm, and a good business at high prices m 
Mombassas and Zanzibar, fair rates have also been 
paid for Japans which in comparison are cheap. 
A large business has transpired in all descriptions. 
We close F. M. Straits at £17. 17. 6.; Sundned 
£1810 0.; Manila £17. 7.6. ; Java £18.15.0.; Malabar 
£20 ; South sea £17.17.6 c.i.f. delivered weights. 
Trade has been very dull and prices in buyers favour. 
We value Sumatra, marbled, good to fine seconds at £7 
to £8, common to fair £3.5.0. to £6.50; Palembang, 
common to fair 30/-to 44/- ; Siam £8 to £27. 
Transactions very small and at easier rates. We 
value Macassar, fair dark brown to fine pale scraped at 
r >0/-to 70/-, middling to fair half hard 32/6d to 47/bd. 
Nuts, ordinary to hard 18/6d to 35/-, Chips 18/-to35/*, 
Soft blocky sorts 17/6 to 22/6 per cwt. Pontianac, 
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