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INDEX. 



216. 



Africrt, cacao in, 7, 279. 



Agricultural education {.lee Education.) 



Agricultural institutions in West Indies, 



U, 46, 62, 78. 

 • — instructors, ajuiointuient of, 51. 



— — , value of, 284. 



— News, comments on, 20.5. 

 ■ — — , object.s of, 1. 



— shows, Antigua, 118, 172, 



— — , Barbados, 70, 118. 



• — — , British Guiana, 205. 



— — , Dominica, 236. 



— — , Montserrat, 118. 



— — , objects of, 118. 

 ■ — — , value of, 6-5. 



— — , Virgin Islands, 118. 



— .society, Antigua, 123, 216. 



— . — , Dominica, 76, 216. 



— — , 8t. Lucia, 236. 

 Agriculture and volcanic eruptions, 13-5. 

 — , boards of, 17. 



Aloes, Barbado.s, 121, 268. 



— in London market, 227. 

 Anastreplia Serpentina, 88. 

 Andropogon caricosus, 216. 



— jiertusus, 105. 

 Annatto, antidote for cassava 



284. 

 Anolis alligatoi-, 170. 

 Anthrax at St. Vincent, 231, 232. 

 Antigua, agricultural education at. 

 — , • — scholar.ship.s, 187. 

 — , — show, 118, 172, 216. 

 — , — .society, 123, 216. 

 — , arbor day, 264. 



. — , beiins and jieas, exiieriments on, 188. 

 . — , bee-kee|iing at, 74. 

 — , botanic station, rei^orts, 171, 220. 

 — , cotton industry at, 23, 153, 169, 195. 

 — , ecorioniic exi)erinients at, 205. 

 — , hay grass at, 216. 

 — , Indian corn at, 229. 

 — , Kirby A. H., appointment of, 267. 

 — , lime industry at, 165. 

 — , lo(]uat at, 236. 

 — , Morris D., visit of, 76. 

 — , onions at, 38. 



— , peasant garden experiment.s, 220. 

 — , pine-apples, 44. 

 — , .■'acre<l or water bean at, 104. 

 — , vegetables for Boers at, 39. 

 — , whales ashfire at, 119. 



Ants white, remedy for, 91. 



x\i)ogonia destructor, 258. 



Aracliis hypogaea, 26, 136. 



Arbor day, 49, 5.5, 86, 101, 151, 219, 



264. 

 ^ Argosoma rcflexum, 258. 

 i Arrowroot, at Barliados, 277, 279. 



__, _ St. Lucia, 109, 132. 



— , in London maiket, 120, 127. 



— , Jamaica, composition of, 75. 



— , St. Vincent, compo.sition of, 100. 



poisonnig. 



107 



Bacillus levanifornians, 75. 



Bahamas, agricultural development of, 



23, 

 Balata, at British Guiana, 268. 

 Bamboo, flowering of, 39. 

 — , male, 252. 

 Banana Industry : — 



Canary banana, 118, 164. 



— — , at Barbados, 68, 103, 134. 

 Cultivation at Canaries, 230. 



— — .lamaica, 121, 228, 244, 



261. 

 Diseases, He.tero<le)'a, 7. 

 — , in Egypt, 7, 84 

 — , insect attacking, 168. 

 — , nematode worms, 7. 

 Exports from .Tamaica, 55. 

 Imports into British Guiana, 236. 



— — Ignited Kingdom, 164. 



— _ _ States, 151. 

 Packing, exiierimcnts with, 199. 

 Preserved, 1 35. 



Shipment from Barbado.s, 68, 134. 



— — Dominica, 278. 

 Varieties cultivated at Dominica, 188, 



279. 

 Banana, leaf of, 104. 

 Bananas, West Indies, new \arieties 



introduced to, 22. 

 Barbados, agricultural shows at, 22, 



70. 

 — , aloe industry, 121. 

 — , arrowi'oot, 279. 

 — , bananas, Chinese, at, 68, 103 134. 

 — , — , trial shipment of, 68, 134. 

 - -, bird mii/i'ants at, 102. 



Barbados, elementary schools, examina- 

 tion, 107. 



— , grouml-nut industry, 136, 



— , elementary schools, jirizes for plants 

 grown at, 123. 



— , English hares at, 167. 



— , fish, destruction at, 183. 



— — , tarpon at, 56. 



— , Harrison College, natural science 



and agriculture, reports on, 11. 

 — , import dutie.s, 236, 

 — , lectures to teacher.s, 59, 204, 21.3, 



234, 261, 283. 

 — , mahogany at, 54. 

 — , minor industries at, 277. 

 — , peasant [ilots at, 40. 

 — , reptiles of, 151, 170, 210, 248. 

 — , snakes of, 151, 210. 

 — , soils of, 221. 

 -— , sugar-cane experiments at, 34, 157, 



161, 166, 178, 182, 194. 

 — , sugar crops, 131, 163. 

 — , sweet potato trade, 7. 

 — , volcanic ash, 23, 44, 88, 21.5, 



217. 

 Barbuda, game shooting at, 138. 

 Barclay, .7., poultry notes, 122, 138, 



154, 170, 186, 202. 

 Bats and gi-apes, 106. 

 — , in houses and churches, 12. 

 Bee-keeping, at Antigua, 74, 220. 



— — Dominica, 122. 



— — Grenada, 152. 



— — .Jamaica, 26, 86, 92, 

 134, 251, 265. 



— — Jlonlserrat, 106. 



— — St. Lucia, 284. 



— - - St. Vincent, 42, 109. 

 — , honey, a nutritive laxative, 106. 

 — , — , an attic full, 140. 



— , — , in American market, 229. 

 — , — , uses of, 265, 281. 

 —-, lizards and bees, 122. 

 — , plants, Cleome, 106. 



— — , Iponiea sidaefolia, 236. 

 — , — , seaside grapes, 74. 



-, possibilities of, 38. 

 — , shade for hives, 236. 

 Bees, stingless, at British Guiana, 252. 



— — , — Dominica, 40. 

 Bees- wax, iiroduction of, 165. 



Beet sugar, jproduction in Euroi)e, 66. 



— — , — ^- Cnited States, 

 22, 210. 



