PREFACE. 
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rpHIS volume represents the official report of the 
~ L Proceedings of the First Agricultural Conference 
of Malay a, and includes the papers contributed to the 
Conference, together with the discussions which followed 
the reading of the papers. The discussions in most 
cases were not so thorough as they might have been, 
but, now that we are assured that the planting community 
will support an Agricultural Conference, it is hoped to 
arrange programmes for future Conferences which will 
allow more time for discussion, and to appoint delegates 
in different parts of the Peninsula who will come 
prepared to discuss the papers submitted to these 
Conferences. 
The Conference Committee wish to place on record 
their appreciation of the valuable service rendered by 
the gentlemen who took part in the Conference. 
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