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The chillies are well nigh exhausted about four months from the time 
of planting. They are generally succeeded by a crop of sweet potatoes, 
after which the land is allowed to lie fallow for a couple of months. 
Then the weeds are ploughed up and used as green manure mixed with 
farm-yard compost. 
Briefly the order may be stated categorically. 
1. Chilli. 
2. Some leguminous plant. 
3. Sweet potatoe. 
4. Tapioca. 
Indigo is a favourite leguminous plant to be cultivated. It 
requires very careful manuring, and generally yields three crops of 
cuttings — after which the land is allowed to rest for a few months. 
By careful tillage and judicious manuring, these Chinese vegetable 
gardeners are able to make use of the poorest land available and to obtain 
good returns for their toil and investment. When lalang land has been 
thus reclaimed, it is not unprofitable to plant it up with rubber be- 
tween the vegetables grown, — Dr. Lim Boon Heng. 
FIFTH JOINT ANNUAL AGRI-HORTICULTURAL 
SHOW OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, 
HELD AT KUALA LUMPOR 
10th, 11th, and 12th, AUGUST, 1908. 
Kuala Lumpor Agri-Horticultural Show 1908. 
The fifth Agri-Horticultural Show of the Malay Peninsula was held 
in Kuala Lumpor on the 10th, 11th, and 12th August. The Show 
which was opened by His Excellency Sir John Anderson K . C . M . G. 
was favoured by excellent weather and was by general consent consider- 
ed very successful. 
Working arrangements .— The system of working this year’s Show 
was somewhat different to that of previous years in that the whole 
management of the Show was undertaken by one small Committee of 
nine members. No Sub-Committees were appointed with the excep- 
tion of a committee of three who drew up the prize list in the native 
art section, and the Horse Committee which had entire chaige of that 
portion of the Show, , , 
In place of the usual sub- committees in each division Stewards 
were appointed for each section, whose duty it was to attend to the 
arrangements of the exhibits on arrival, and facilitate the woik of the 
Judges in their section. ' , 
This change in working arrangements is 1 think one to he 
recommended, the small committee is more workable, and the selection 
off Stewards each having a definite section to look after is preferable to 
the old system of having a sub-committee of say five persons, who 
each left the work to the other with the result on many occasions when 
most needed, they were not to be found, 
