295 



Pine-apples, Cliarlotte Rotbschilcl, 181. 



— , cockscomb liead.s, how caused, 130. 



— , exports from Antigua, 1901, 220. 



- — , ferment in, 43, 107. 



— , fungoid attacks on, 188, 213. 



— , La Brea, 180. 



— , Maipuri, 180. 



— , packing and shipping, 164, 166. 



— , queen or golden queen, 180. 



— , smooth Cayeinie, disbribution of, 



188. 

 - — , undersized in London market, 172. 

 Pi.sonia aculeata, 28. 

 Pitheco!obiuni Sanian, as shade tree, 13. 

 Plant breeding conference at New York, 



172. 



— — , possibilities of, 247. 



— pathology, 75. 

 Plants, climbing, 46. 

 — , fever in, 61. 



— , natural history of, 123, 203, 267. 



Polistes, 200. 



Polybia occidentalis, 200. 



Pond Hies, 25. 



Porto liico, deposits of guano and iihos- 



phates, 220. 

 — , prospects of sugar crop 1902, 115. 

 — , trade report for 1901, 141. 

 Potatos, English, cultivation experiments 



in West Indies, 149. 

 — , — , .siirouting, harmful, 76. 

 — , sweet, cultivation at >St. Lucia, 109. 

 ■ — , — , e.xi)erimental culture of, 61. 

 — , — , experiments in .shii>ping, 99, 



181. 

 — , — , for Europe, 99, 103, 231. 

 — , — , kinds cultivated in Tobago, 76. 

 — , — , meal, samples sent to London, 



204. 

 — , — , i)acking, careful selection neces- 

 sary, 182. 

 — , — , packing, directions for, 181. 

 — , — , red spider, attack on, 200. 

 - — , — , spraying against cateri>illars, 



232 

 Poultry, a double tragedy, 74. 

 — , breeds of fowls, 74, 138, 154. 

 — , camjjhor for hens' nests, 26. 

 — , chicken rai.sing at Grenada, 266. 

 — , connuon fowls, improving, 231, 234. 

 — , diseases of, 250, 266, 279, 282. 

 — , economic importance of, 122. 

 — , feeding, 186, 190, 202. 

 — , hints on keei)ing, 122. 

 — , housing, with diagram of house 



runs, 219. 

 — , importance of cleanliness 246. 

 — , in small enclo.sures, 42. 

 — , imported at St. Lucia, 284. 

 — , Leghorns, 170. 

 — , nianacou, dangerous to, 172. 

 — , ^linorcas, 170. 

 - — , immkin seeds as food for, 74. 

 — , raising, 118, 214. 

 — , report on, at the agricultural school 



at Dominica, 90. 

 — , .scaly leg on fowls, remedy for, 106. 



Poultry, ticks on fowls 74, 106. 



— , to catch fowls easily, 90. 



— , to cure an egg-eating dog, 90. 



Praedial larceny, 166. 



Prickly heat, treatment for, 58. 



Produce, quality of, 33. 



Products, home, utilization of, 225, 246. 



Pumpkin seeds, food forfowls, 74. 



Pyrethrum, mosquito destroyer, 235. 



Q- 



Quaxima or carajiicho fibre, 189. 

 Queensland, Agricultural Journal, 171, 

 Quiina jamaicensls, 265. 



R. 



Rain, an inch of, 75. 



Keforestation, experiments at Grenada, 

 154. 



— , Tecoma leucoxylon, 220. 



— , results of experiments, 220. 



liemigia repanda, 167. 



liei)ort, agricultural chemists, associa- 

 tion, 157. 



— , Antigua, botanic station, 171, 220. 



— , — economic experiments at, 205. 



— , Barbados agricultural work at 1898 

 to 1901, 13. 



— , British Guiana botanic gardens, 29. 



— , — — , ilr. Ward's visit to Trini- 

 dad, 45. 



— , Canary Islands, trade for 1901, 237. 



— , Ceylon, botanic gardens, 77. 



— , — , cacao canker in, 29. 



— , — , Government mycologist. 77. 



— , Costa Bica, trade for 1901, 125. 



— , Cuba, trade for 1901, 270. 



— , Dominica, botanic station, 221. 



— , Elementary education, 1901-02, 270. 



— , Grenada, botanic station, 1901, 270. 



— , Jamaica botanic gardens, 13. 



— , — government laboratory, 173. 



— , Louisiana, feeding of iilantation 

 stock, 29. 



— , Montserrat, experiment stations, 

 1901, 157, 



— , notes on insect jiests, 45. 



— , Para, trade for 1901, 250. 



— , Porto Bico, 141. 



— , St. Kitt's-Nevis botanic station, 141. 



— , timber, decay of, 278, 



— , — , tropical, 105. 



— , Tobago botanic station, 141. 



— , Trinidad, government analyst, 125. 



— , — botanic garden.s, 77. 



— , — government farm, 125. 



— , volanic dust, Barbados, 88. 



— , Wye College, notes on insect pests, 

 45. 



lieptiles, Barbados, 170, 248. 



Bice cultivation at British Guiana, 38, 

 152. 232. 



— — , Demerira, importation in, 268. 



— — , Jamaica, 13, 92. 



— — , Porto Bico, rei)ort on trade, 141. 



— — , Trinidad, 268. 



— , value of imported, 220. 

 Bo.sa rubiginosa, 71. 

 Eoses, where to obtain, 26. 

 Bubber, 21. 



— , Central American, as shade for cacao, 

 21. 



— cultivation, British Guiana, 165. 



— — , Ceylon, 23, 93. 



— — , Trinidad, 77. 



— forests, in Soudan, 114. 

 — , from young trees, 180. 

 — , Lago.s, 54, 185. 



— , — , cultivation at Tobago, 39. 

 — , — , — at Trinidad, 87. 

 — , — , pruning neces.sary, 54. 



— , — , test of latex in Trinidad, 2 1 5. 

 — , Para, 36, 52, 93. 

 — , world's demand, 247. 

 Bum, manufacture at British Guiana, 

 236. 



— — , Jamaica, study of, 98. 



— — , expert for, 131. 



s. 



Saccharine, restricted sale of, 103, 

 St. Kitt's, agricultural education at, 43. 

 — , report on botanic station, 141. 

 — , school plots at, 43. 

 --, sugar, duty on exported, 150. 

 — , sugar-cane experiments in, 18. 

 — , tobacco e.xperiments at, 53, 130. 

 St. Lucia, agricultural eflbrts at, 25. 

 — , — • notes from, 57, 275. 

 — , — school examination, 109. 

 — , — ■ — , vacancies at, 188. 

 — , — society, 76. 

 — , arrowroot, 109, 132 

 — , cacao crop at, 109. 

 — , — cultivation at, 72, 196. 

 — , coasting steamer at, 252. 

 — , cotton at, 25, 103, 172, 236. 

 — , experiment plots at, 51. 

 — , ginger at, 109. 

 — , importation of stock, 87. 

 — , mole crickets at, 40. 

 — , iieasant cacao plots, 279. 

 — , iilant proclamation at, 14. 

 — , i)Otato, sweet, 109. 

 — , return of Dr. Morris from, 60. 

 — , school gardens, 253. 

 — , screw worm, 8, 73. 

 — , spraying machines, importation, 236. 

 — , sugar [iroduction in, 147. 

 St. Vincent, agricultural instructor, ap- 

 pointment of, 28. 

 — , — school examination, 102. 

 — , — — , report on, 109. 



