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INDEX. 



MOTE.— References to pests and diseases are c/assified under Insect Notes, Plant Diseases and Fungus Notes, 

 Insect Pests, Insect Parasites and Predators, respectively. 



A. 



Abies Douglasii (Douglas fir, or Oregon 



pine), 329, 342. 

 Acacia farnesiana, -41. 



— seeds, vitality of, 41. 

 Acridity in tannia.s and eddoes, cause: 



of, 57. 



Advertisement, the first, 239. 



Aerial mail service, Indo-Buruia, 335. 



Aeroplane, use of, fcr purpo.ses of sur- 

 veying, 2<j5. 



Afforestation in the United King- 

 dom, 28. 



Agave {Aqave sisaUvm), 35, 10(1, 196, 

 253. 



— americani, 39(j. 



— tonrcroydes (henequen,) lOG, 220. 

 rigida, var. elongata, 268. 



— — , — sisalana, 268. 

 Agouti, or Indian cony {Dasyprocta 



Agouti), 325. 

 Agricultural College, Porto Rico, 366. 



— costing, 271. 



— Credit Societies ic St. Lucia, 246. 

 Trinidad, 249. 



— Department and Board of Agricul- 

 ture, Trinidad, reorganization of, 47, 



— — , Grenada, 1 35. 



— examination-s 19IS, 175, 179. 

 History Society, establishment of 



332. 

 • — inspection in Grenada, 367. 



— instruction in Grenada, 223. 

 'Agricultural News," Vol. XVII, Index 



to, 16s. 

 Agricultural outlook in Montserrat, 221 



— reorganization in Trinidad, 393 



— scboo's, organization of in Hayti, 

 Nicaragua, and Mexico, 408. 



• — show, kcal, 408. 



Agriculture in Barbados. 7, 23, 43, 55, 



75, 87, 111, 127, 133, 149, 167, 



187, 197, 212, 231, 263, 286, 357, 



383, 388. 404. 



— — Nevis, 55. 

 — , proposed temple of, 239. 

 Alcohol, colonially produced, P.ritish 



surtax on, 120. 

 «— , industrial, demand for in United — pear {Persea gratissima), 202. 



Kingdom, ICl. 



— in Canada, 137. 



— made from molasses, 84. 



— production in Cuba, 117. 

 Algaroba (Prosopif. juliflora), 164. 

 Aleurites oil, 396. 



Almond {Terminalia Catappa), 26. 

 America, farm tractors in, 9. 

 American manatee {Mnnatus latiros- 



tris), 181. 

 Ammonium nitrate as a fertilizer, 121. 

 Ararat Mahal cattle, 295. 

 Anderson oil expeller in the Federated 



Malay States, 255. 

 Andropogon auctus (tamboukie grasses), 



39. 



— Buchananii ( thatching grass or 

 'dekgras'), 39. 



— Dregeamus (tamboukie grasses), 39.! 

 — ■ halepensis, 29. 



Sorghum (Guinea corn), 151. 

 AniiTials, wild, 325. 

 Ankylostomiasis, camoaign against, 76, 



239. 

 — , treatment of by oil of chenopo 



dium, 71. 

 Annatto on the London market, 143, 



191, 223, 253, 303, 335, 367. 

 Anona squamosa (sweet sop), 26. 

 Anthelminties, or worm destroyers, 220. 

 Antigua and St, Kitts sugar factories, 



sucrose conient of canes crushed at, 



116. 

 — , close season cotton Ordinance in, 



277. 

 — , hill rice in, 277. 

 — , items of local interest. 22, 75, 87. 



127, 167, 196, 253, 286, 308, 324 



382, 404. 

 — , live stock in, health of, 276. 

 — , plant legislation in, 105. 



plants poisonous to stock in 168. 

 private land settlement in, 328. 

 rainfall in, 183. I 



sisal cultivation in, 220, 277. 

 su^ar factory in, 36, 

 weather in, 389. 

 Antiseptics, injection of, into diseased 



trees, 373. 

 Aphelenchns corophilus, 376, 398. 

 Arrowroot on the London market, 95, 



12.3, 143, 191, 253, 303, 367, 399, 

 Ascaris lumbricoides, 238. 

 Atmospheric disturbances, recent, 264. 

 Australian wines, 1 1 

 Avocado, another species of, 219. 



B. 



Back to the land and countryside, 121 



Bacon and hams, home-curing of, 27. 



— , curing on the farm, 284. 



Bacteria, the nature of, 78. 



Bahamas, marine enterprise at the, 233. 



— , pine-apples and tomatoes in, 147. 



lUUou, H. A., 246, 293, 



Bamboo paper pulp manufacture in 



Trinidad, 220. 

 Banana cider, 366. 



— industry, dried, 276. 



— stalks, utilization of, 201. 

 Bananas, depth to plant, 380. 

 — , record .shipment of, from Jamaica, 



172. 



Barbados, a forthcoming local exhibi- 

 tion in, 361. 



— , agriculture in, 7, 23, 43, 55, 75,' 

 87. Ill, 127, 133, 149, 167, 187, 

 197, 212, 231, 263, 286, 357, 383, 

 388, 404. 



— , area of Sea Island cotton grown 

 in 1918, 28. 



— blackbird {(Jnii'cali/s fortiroatris) 

 262. 



— , clo.ee season for cotton in, 105. 



— , land values in, 124. 



— , oil prospecting in, 348. 



— , tractor demonstration in, 301, 



Barber, Dr. C A., 152. 



Barbuda, items of local interest, 



263. 

 — , phosphate in, 136- 

 Bauxite deposits of British Guiana, 

 Bay tree {Pimenta acris), 199, 35U. 

 Bean dish, a new, 387. 

 Beans, production in Brazil, 124. 

 Bee keeping — a possible help to cotton 



growers, 5 

 Beet sugar industry, European, present 



position of, 99. 

 Bengal, date palm sugar industry in, 76. 

 Bermuda gra.'s (Cynodon daclyhin), 



eradication of, 279. 

 jBertholetia excelsa (Brazil nut), 2.":^3. 

 |B3te rouge, 315. 

 Bidens coreopsides, 169. 



— leucanthus, 169. 

 Birds, insect-eating, in St. Vincent, 



; protection of, 15. 

 : Board of Trade. Trinidad, 281. 

 Books reviewed : — 



An Outline of the History of Phyto- 

 pathology. Whetzel, 292. 

 ( A Practical Guide to Tropical Agri- 

 j culture, Fasschere, 316, 



P.lackies Senior Tropical Teade, 

 Watts and Branch, 71. 



212, 



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