434 



B. 



Bacteria and nitrogen, 51. 



Bacterial rot of onions, 245. 



Bahamas, agiiculture in, 231, 200, .393. 



— , Botanic Station, .300, .39.3. 



— , curator for, 238. 



— , exports of, 233. 



— , sisal lieniii industry, 321. 



• — , sponge tisliery, 18S. 



Baliia, India-ruliber from, 324. 



Baker, 11. T., A research on the Eucalypts, 



205. 

 Balata, 25. 



— industry in British Guiana, 188. 



— — - — SiU'iiian), 396. 



— — — Trinidad, 28. 

 Ballou, H.A., cotton k-af-blister mite, 53, 



394. 

 — , cotton worm, 26. 

 — , insect pests, Antigua, 314. 

 ■ — , — — , Dominica, 42, 314. 



— , — —, Grenada, 218, 234. 

 ^, — — , ilontserrat, 58, 330. 



— , — — , St. Kitt'.s-Nevis, 282. 



— , — — , St. Lucia, 42, 298. 



— , _ — -, St. Vincent, 202, 410 

 . — , visit to Grenada, 171. 

 — , — — Montserrat, 11, 29. 

 — , — — Northern Islands, 221, 269 

 — , — — St. Lucia, 315, 333. 

 — , — — St. Vincent, 381. 

 Baltimore, Jamaica fruit imports, 188 

 Bamboos, as wind-brealcs, 316. 

 — , flowering of, 326. 

 Bambusa arundinacea, 326. 

 Banana, 'apjile,' at Tobago, 348. 

 Banana Industry : — 



Barbado.s, 36, 86, 108, 11.3, 114, 140. 

 178, 242, 257, 328. 



British Guiana, 380, 388. 



Costa Rica, 60, 292, 324. 



Honduras, 220, 252, 396. 



.lamaica, 100. 



Porto Piieo, 356. 



Queensland, 372. 

 Bananas, Barbados, 181, 204, 220, 244. 

 — , — , carriage on boardship, S6, 420 



— , — , crates for, 196, 257, 258. 

 — , — , jiacking, 114, 348. 



— , — , picking, 258. 

 — , C'liinese, at Barbados, 113. 

 ■ — , — , — Jamaica, 260. 

 — , condition for eating, 428. 



— , fertilizer for, analysis of, 388. 



— , gathering for market, 212. 



• — in United Kingdom, 364. 



— - United States, 244, 308, 340. 

 ■ — , meal from, 427. 



— , ]\Iusa Cavcndishii from Trinidad 



220. 



— Sierra Leone, value in London 

 market, 20. 



— suckers, importation into Trini- 

 dad, 76. 



— — from Barbados for Egypt. 

 2D2. 



Banana trade at Halifax, 397. 



— — between Barbados and Paris, 

 348. 



— , varieties at Trindad, 84. 



— , AVest Indian in London, 365. 



Barbado.s, agricultural education, 24. 



— , — industrial exliibition, 1.3, 412, 



422. 

 — , — local exliibition fiu' peasant 



proprietors, 24, 45, 236, 412. 

 — , — scholarships, 11. 



— , banana industry at, 36, 113, 178, 348. 



— bananas, 181, 204, 220, 244. 



— — , crates for, 196. 



— — , shipment from, 257. 



— — , storage on b(>ard.shii>, 86, 328, 

 420. 



— blackbirds at St. Kitt'.s, 92. 

 — , ca.s.sava poisoning at, 423. 



— cotton indu.nry, 28, 86, 177, 182, 

 357, 389. 



— , — cultivation in, 37, 405, 421. 



— , — experts at, 385. 



— , — exports from, 124, 136. 



— — factor}-, 40, 182, 186. 



— — ginnery, 8, 66. 

 — , — , insects on, 426. 



— , — lectures at, 216, 236. 

 — , — — , E. L. Oliver and Sir 

 D. Morris, 359. 



— — , valuation of, 8, 76, 149, 152, 

 182, 284. 



— , Engli.sh potato experiments in, 115, 

 — , exports of, 136, 393. 

 — , fish-curing factory, 43, 49, 104. 

 — , lectures to (ilanters, 23. 



— manjak, 409. 



— , minor industries at, 86, 177. 



— molasse.s, 17, 18. 



— , mungoose, legislation against, 108. 

 — , nature teaching in, 380. 

 — , onion cultivation at, 86, 178. 

 — , — thrips, 10. 



— l)Ctroleum, 409. 



— , report on Dodds I'eformatory, 189. 



— , — — Lodge School, 188. 



— , school gardens in, 119. 



. — , sea moss from, 152. 



— , sugar-cane crop, 108. 

 — , — diseases, 77. 



— , — experiments, 1 15, 140, 

 102, 338, 344, 354. 



— , sugar and molasses, exports of, 348. 



— , thrips on sweet potatos, 284. 



— , woods of, 40. 



Barber, C. A., sugarcane experiments in 

 India, 115. 



Barbuda, cotton industry, 369, 373. 



Barclay, J., cocoa-nut oil industry in 

 .Jamaica, 372. 



— , cotton cultivation in Jamaica, 293. 



— . rabbit keeping in West Indies, 230, 

 246, 262, 27.8, 294. 



Barlow, L., acting agricultural superin- 

 tendent, St. Lucia, 285. 



— , report on cotton crop at St. Lucia, 

 357. 



Barrett, O. W., orange [lest in Porto Kico, 



394. 

 Barringtonia speciosa, 412. 

 Bartlett, A. W., report on British Guiana 



Bota,nic Gardens, 285. 

 Bay leaves from I5crniuda, 220. 



— oil, 125. 



Beckett, E , rejwrt on a visit to tlie 



Pomeroon and Moruea districts in 



British Guiana, 189. 

 Bee Keeiiing : 



Bee-i]aralysis and suljihur, 38. 



Bees and sunflowers, 22. 



Cho-cho as a bee plant, 155. 



Colonies of bees in various countries, 

 236. 



Hone}-, West Indian, in Canada, 22. 



— ! — — , on lioyal Mail 



steamers, 54. 



— , logwood, from Trinidad, 284. 



— , raw, 348. 



in Australia, 315. 



— Bosnia, 407. 



— Jamaica, 8, 337. 



— St. Lucia, 268, 338. 



— St. Vincent, 92. 428. 



— United States, 44. 

 Nuclei in queen rearing, 378. 

 Stingless bees, 237. 



Water for bees, 236. 



Worker comb, how to get built, 198. 

 Bees'-wax, adulterated, 92. 

 — , Jamaica, 337. 338. 

 — , Indian, 329. 

 — , refining, 244. 

 Belgian hare.s, 230. 333. 



— — at St. Vincent, 220. 

 Belling, John, vacation leave, 315. 

 Ben oil, 150, 249. 



Bermuda, 252. 

 -, agriculture in, 297. 

 — , bay leaves from, 220. 

 — , importation of eggs, 266. 

 — , lectures t(j teachers, 109. 

 — , rainfall, 300. 

 Bidens leucantha. 199. 

 Birds, economic relation of to fruit rais- 

 ing, 299. 



— of St. Vincent. 216. 

 Bixa Orcllana, 429. 



Blackbirds, Barbados, in A)itigua, 60. 

 Book lieviows : - 



Chemistrv of Plant and Animal Life, 



The, 219. 

 ( 'ottou Culture, 141. 

 Cyprus Journal, The, 75. 

 Die Kultur des Kakoabaumes und 



.seine schiidlinge, 11. 

 Disea.scs of the Horse, 27. 

 Dominica Agriculturist, 91, 381. 

 I'^enige patliologische en i)hysiologische 



waarncmingen over KofHe, 205. 

 Evolution of Plant Life, The, 91. 

 Farmers" Bulletins of the Philippine 



Bureau of Agriculture, 141. 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns, 171. 

 Grasses, 220. 



