• * 
®h» now orup has been f a vou rod by s*e*l weather at 
start 
MSI5WW*, and nore of It has been translanted 
in good tin* than in l§i4k 
♦falaeaa noderal* to jooi, in Singapore poor tc 
fairly good, «oapt Plantains which have yielded 
Sho worst local croi' mm . the gangosteen 
3**op; but that was because tho Tory big yi -elds 
of 1*14 eoapellod tho tree* tc rout* 
fh» pin* arpl* industry of Singapore obtains 
r 
•11 tho naterlal it noedn in apite of tho cutting 
out cf tho crop fron tho largo rubber onto ton: but 
tho price to tho grower* has boon little renuj-erativeb 
•he cultivation of tuba root is lneroaoingb 
* 
•anbior growers have enjited particularly good 
priooa inconsequence of a war denand. and tho 
I 
Interruption of supplies of rival Rato rials such as 
valoni* and quebracho, tho first of '♦hioh oones 
chiefly fron tnrklsh possessions, and tho seoond fron 
South daerlea to which , as said above tho stoa nor 
trade has suffered considerably, So long as such 
d 
prison aro aaintainod tho renoval *f it fm tho 
rocictod parts of Singapc -0 island and tho territory 
of rfc>.lacoa in inprobable* 
f $3j36 
