AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No . 9 .] SEPTEMBER 1909. [Von VIII 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE 
FOR THE YEAR 1908. 
The fourth annual report of the Department of Agri- 
culture, Federated Malay States, records a year of satis- 
factory progress in agriculture, especially in regards to 
rubber cultivation. 
No outbreak of serious pests or diseases has to be 
chronicled, and good growing weather prevailed all the year 
round. . 
The Department of Agriculture has progressed m 
equipment and staff. The Government Entomologist, Mr. 
H. C. Pratt, has been transferred to the staff, an addition 
of much gain to agriculture, since he can now devote his 
entire time to problems of insect pests on cultivated crops 
and demonstrate the best methods for preventing such at- 
tack and for treating a disease when it has begun its in- 
juries. The importance of such work in a country possess- 
ing large acres of valuable cultivations cannot be over- 
estimated. . _ 
The Government Entomologist gives a detailed report 
of the work he did since joining the department in Sep- 
tember. He has, after investigating on estates in different 
districts the habits of the Term.es gestroi, the white ant 
attacking rubber, commenced a series of experiments with 
various curative and preventive measures, some of which 
