441 



-Jamaica, sugar-cane experiments in, 211, 



227. 

 — , - - .seedlings in, 284, 419. 



— tea, 180. 



. — tobacco industrj', 2SC, ."500, .34.5, 376, 



379, 392, 42.5. 

 . — , trrtvellors' tree in, CO. 

 Jatroplia Curcas, oil from, 37G. 

 Java, exports of, 219. 

 — , sugar-cane beetle borer in, 1-54. 

 — , — experiment station.?, 71. 



Jimson weed, 358. 

 Job's Tears, analysis of .seeds, 242. 



— — , as famine food, 275. 



— — , — poultry food, 342. 

 Jones, J., leave of absence, 203. 

 — , resumption of duties, 407. 

 Jordan, A.. J., cotton cultivation in ^[ont- 



serrat, 213, 341. 

 — , — leaf-blister mite, 42. 

 Juniper cedar, 232. 



K. 



Kaolin in St. Kitt's, 245. 



Kapok, 188, 426. 



Kerner, The Natural History of Plant 



Kindt, Ludwig, Die kultur des k 



baumes und seine sliadlinge, 11. 

 Kirby, A.H., lectures on tropical Iivi 



411. 

 Knowles, C.H., agricultural superin 



ent at Fiji, 349. 

 — , report on Georgetown illstrict, 



Vincent, 60. 

 Kobus, J.D., Improvement of the f 



cane by chemical selection, 19. 

 Kola nuts, preparation for market, 

 - — — , West Indian in London 



312, 



ket, .30, 76, 94, 102, I: 

 238, 302, 334, 3G.5, 414. 



!5, n 



s, 91. 

 akao- 



dene, 



tend- 



1 

 SlO 



ugar- 



412. 

 mar- 

 190, 



Lagos, agriculture in, 25. 



■ — , cacao cultivation, 56. 



— , exports from, 377. 



— , i)alra oil tree products from, 361. 



Lavas, notes on Grenada, 158. 



Lawn gra.sses in Egypt, 238. 



— mowings, utilization of, 213. 

 Lecture e.xperiment.s, 310. 

 Lectures to teachers, (see Education). 

 Leeward Islands, agricultural scholarships, 



11. 



. — — , — improvements, 41. 



■ — — , cotton cultivation, acre- 

 age in, 389. 



■ — • — , Paris green and cotton worm 

 197. 



— — , sugar-caue experiments, 145. 



Lemon crop in Italy, 188. 



— ^- _ Sicily, 396. 

 Lemon grass at Antigua, 60. 



— - - oil, 7. 



— — — from Montsei'i-at, 361. 



— peel, pickling, 234. 



— trade in Sicilj-, 4. 

 Lemons, comjiosition of, 228. 

 — , e.xport.s fr<jm Sicily, 324. 

 — , imjwrts into U.S.A., 340. 



— , utilization nf damaged in Sicily, 188. 



Leucaena glauca, 374, 395. 



Lewton Brain, L., anatomy of the leaves 



of British grasses, 374. 

 — , lectures on diseases of the sugar-cane 



23,77. 

 — , visit to Dominica, 301. 

 — , — — St. Lucia, 301. 



— , St. Vincent, 171, 285. 



Liberia, vegetable products of, 201. 

 Lime juice in London market, 94, 125, 



173, 190, 302, 365. 



— industry in West Indies, 242. 



— trees, ilontserrat, scale insects on, 220. 



— — , shelter belts for, 273. 



— — , spiraying in Dominica, 

 314. 



— , unslacked, and Paris green, 281. 

 Limes, seedless, 36. 

 — , West Indian in Canada, 12-5. 

 Lizards, exterminators of rats, 371. 

 Lloyd, F.E., Dominica botanic station, 44. 

 Loders it Nucolino, cocoa-nut planting in 



West Indies, 36. 

 Lodoicea sechellarum, 156, 429. 

 Logwood as a hedge plant, 233. 

 London purple and Paris green, 170. 



— show of colonial fruit, 276. 

 Lotus lily, 427. 



Louisiana, sugar-cane seedlings in, 92, 



259. 

 Love vine, destruction in Trinidad, 185. 

 Lucerne in Argentine, 151. 

 Lucky beans, 388. 

 Lunt, Wm., death of 29, 93. 

 Lydekker, 11., African hairy sheep, 407. 



M. 



Mace, 30, 61, 94, 12.5, 173, 238, 269, 



302, 334, 365, 414. 

 Madagascar, banana weevil in, 122. 

 — , exports of India-rubber from, 348. 

 — , — — ratfia fibre from, 348. 



— , vegetable fibres in, 380. 

 Madeira onions, exports to West Indies, 



364. 

 — , -Xaudet process for extracting cane 



juice, 354. 

 Madera shade tree, 135. 

 Mahogany in England, 105. 

 Malaria and mosquito.s, 183, 292, 

 — , cause of, 139. 

 — , prevention of, 70. 



Malay States, pineapple cultivation, 116. 



— , rubber cultivation in, 371. 

 Malta, goats at, 135. 

 Manacou in East .\frica, 342. 

 Mango, budding, 283. 

 — , composition of, 4. 

 — , crop in Trinidad, 204. 

 — , exports from Goa, 412. 

 — , gathering for market, 2 1 2. 

 — , Grenada in Xow York, 26.5. 

 ---, history iif in .Jamaica, 132. 



— jam and .lamaican sugars, 307. 



— tree, fruiting in December, 428. 

 Mangosteen, fruiting at Jamaica, 124. 

 Mangrove bark industry, 156. 



— -- — , Zanzibar and Pemba, 

 362. 



ilanila hemp, classification and uses, 327. 



— — , cultivation of, 327. 



— — , extraction of fibre, 201, 327. 

 Manjak from Trinidad, 105. 

 Mansfield, A.L., A.ssistant Instructor in 



Agriculture, British Guiana, 348. 

 Manson, Sir Patrick, disea.se problem in 



the West Indies, 139, 157, 166, 198. 

 Manures, green, duration of ettect, 2.53. 

 — , — , ground nuts for, 424. 

 — , pen, preserving of, 268. 

 Maple sugar, origin of, 163. 

 Maracaibo, divi-divi from, 332. 

 Market reports, 14, 31, 47, 62, 78, 9-5, 



111, 126, 142, 159, 174, 191, 207, 



222, 239, 255, 270, 287, 303, 318, 



335, 351, 366, 383, 398, 415, 4.30. 

 Marr, J.E., Tieology in relation to -\gri- 



culture, 3. 

 Marseilles, oil seed trade, 312. 

 ifartinique, exports from, 408. 

 — , sugar industry in, 291. 

 :\Ias.see, G., The Evolution of Plant Life, 



91. 

 ilauritius, Curepipe (Jarden.s, 140. 

 — , exports from, 396. 

 — , fibre plants in, 297. 

 — , sugar-cane varieties in, 323. 

 Maxwell, AV., Maceration and extrai-tion 



of sugar, 370. 

 Meaden, C.W., molascuit as stock fooil, 



387. 

 — , mule-breeding in Trinidad, 59. 

 Meat, preservation of, 114. 

 Medicinal plants, exhibit at Louisiana 



exposition, 167. 

 Megilla maculata, 90. 

 Melo-coton, 316, 411. 

 Mesembryanthemum Tripolium, 135. 

 Metric system, 59, 124. 

 Mexico, fibre plants in, 134. 

 — , fruit growing in, 116. 

 — , goat raising in, 421. 

 — , sisal hemp exports from, 251. 

 Mice, destruction of, 299. 

 ililk fiour, 92. 



— in relation to temperature, 76. 

 — , variation in composition, 9. 

 Millen, H., bamboos as wind-breaks, 316. 

 — , cotton crop in Tobago, 341. 



