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Education, Agricultural (Cuiliiiued): — 

 establishment of fanning school at 



Lima, 310. 

 •estate managers and overseers, eduea- 

 . tion of, :U, 189. 

 Frencii colonial .school, 402. 

 grant-in-aid by rrinidail Agricultural 



Society, "264. 

 increased e-tjienditure in I'orto IJico, 



2-20. 

 Inudstrial school needed for British 



Honduras, 215. 

 in elementary schools of Great Britain, 



— Great Britain, 121. ; 



— Trinidad, 185. 



— West Indies, 33. | 

 practical agriculture, courses of reading 



and examination in, 209. 



proposed establishment of agricultural 

 school in British Guiana, 383. 



readership in tropical agriculture, sug- 

 gested establishment at British 

 University, 300. 



reading courses for estate overseers, 

 entries for, 284. 



— — in practical agriculture, 

 books recommended for candidates, 

 267. 



St. Lucia agricultural school, report 



on, 269. 

 St. Vincent agricultural school, reports 



on, 269. 

 school exhibits at Trinidad, award of 



medal, 151. 

 — - gardening, educative value of, 415. 

 — • gardens at Barbados, 239. 



— — -- Jamaica, 78, 92. 



— — — — , prizes for, 380. 



— — — St. Lucia, 361. 



— — in Britisli Guiana, 313. 



— — — England, 247. 



— — — Great Britain, 78. 



United States, 108. 



West Indies, 97, 117. 



— — , s<jnie 4)oints in ^connexion with, 

 141. 



— — , vanilla plants in, 105. 



— shows at Trinidad, 328. 

 •eggs, brown and white, 76. 

 egg-laying competition, 362. 



— — record, the world's, 12. 



— preservation in Denmark, 152. 



— — — , new method of, 110, 

 204. 



Eggs, shell-less, export from Russia, 28. 



— , small, 61. 



Egypt, banana cultivation in, 188. 



— , cotton manuring in, 108. 



— , encouragement of banana cultivation 



in, 380. 

 — , experimental cultivation of ('aravon 



ica cotton in, 316. 

 — , increased use of artificial manures in, 



138. 

 — , reclamation of alkaline soils in, 268 

 JJlectricity and the growth of crops, 387, 



England, cotton conference in, 230, 262. 

 — , school gardens in, 247. 

 Kn/.ymcs of the sugar-cane, 291. 

 Ex{)criinent station proposed at St. 

 I Croix, 185. 



— stations and improvement of tro- 

 {)ical agriculture, 403. 



' — — in East Africa, 190. 



F. 



Farming methods in dry districts, 295. 



Farmyard manure, value as a fertilizer, 

 359. 



Fawcett, W., retirement from Director- 

 ship of gardens and plantations, Ja- 

 maica, 204. 



Federated Malay SUites, rubber industry 

 in, 413. 



Fibre cultivation in Central Africa, 44. 



— production in Nyassaland, 391. 

 Fibres for paper making, 359. 

 Ficus elastica trees, growth and yield of, 



12. 

 Fiji, agricultural prospects in, 41. 

 — ■, area allotted to ditt'crent crops, 60. 



— Islands, agriculture in, 407. 



— — , Crown land in, 407. 

 Fisheries of the West Indies, 8. 

 Fish of the Caribbean Seas, 318. 

 Flies, blood-sucking, 129. 

 Florida, cultivation and manurial experi- 

 ments with sorghum in, 220. 



— , — of East Indian mangos in 



236. 

 — , pine-apple culture in, 324. 

 Flour, exports frcim Canada to West 



Indies, 244. 

 Flower-bud maggott on cotton, 330. 

 Forage cro[)s-for hogs, 329. ■ 



— — in Philijipiiie Islands, 309. 

 Forest resources of 15ritish Guiana, deple 



tion of, 235. 

 Formaldehyde as a preservative of cane 

 ,j-uice, 147. 



— — remedy for calf scour, 

 44. 



— , influence upon Funtumia rubber, 47. 

 Formic acid as a coagulant of rubber 



latex, 217. 

 Formosa, camphr)r output from, 301. 

 — , rice production in, 12. 

 — , .sugar industry in, 323. 

 — , suggested establishment of irrigation 



system in, 380. 

 F'rance, agricultural co-operation in, 44. 

 — , beet sugar industry of, 364. 

 — , — — production in, 398. 

 — , import of bananas from Trinidad, 



28. 

 Fraser, George, a]jpointment as> Agricul- 

 tural Instructor at St. A'inceut, 220. 

 Fi-pnch colonial school, 402. 



- Cotton -growing Association, object 



of, 412. 

 Froggatt, W. W., insect pests in foreign 



lands, 186. 



Fruit cultivation in Brazil, 204. 



— culture in Porto llico, 84. 



— decay, [)re-cooling as a preventive of^ 

 200. 



— exports from Jamaica, 252. 



— growing in Jamaica, 292. 

 — • in Queensland, 5. 



— industry of Porto Bico, value of, 28.. 



— preservation by cold storage methods, 

 332. 



— preserved in brine, 199. 



— preserving industry, possibilities of 

 in British Guiana, 164. 



— trade of Jamaica, revival of, 216. 



— transportation and storage, 101. 

 Fruits, jireservation in crystallized form,. 



308. 

 Fumigation of imported plantsat St. Lucia,. 



396. 

 Fungicides, removal of importation duty 



at St. Kitt's-Xevis, 252. 

 Funtumia rubberin Southern Nigeria,254^ 



G. 



(iambia, rice exports from,' 396. 



Gambler cultivation in Sumatra, 108. 



Geology and mineral resources of Barba- 

 dos, 45. 



Georgetown market, stall for sale of 

 economic plants, 316. 



Georgia, courses of instruction for cottort 

 growers at, 252. 



Germany, Agricultural Society of, 343. 



— , beet sugar factories in, 140. 



— , — — production in, 248, 398. 



— , sugar exports to Great Britain, 156. 



Germination experiments with Para rub- 

 ber seed, 394. 



— -- of seeds, rapid, 393. 



Ginger cultivation at Jamaica, 95. 

 exports from Jamaica, 28. 

 on the London market, 31, 63, 95,. 

 159, 191, 239, 255, 303, 3.35, 367, 399.. 



— production in Jamaica, 296. 



— — Nyassaland, 391. 

 Goats' milk, quantity and quality of, 199. 

 Gold Coast, agricultural [)roducts of, 373. 



— Colonv, Botanic Stations in, 

 380. 



— , export of fibres from, 405. 

 — , kola nut exports from, 380. 

 — , palm oil and kernel exports 

 from, 373. 

 Grape fruit cultivation, 212. 



--, jirices of Jamaica, in London, 

 28. 

 Great liritain, agricultural co-operation, 

 in, 382. 



— , — crops of, 1908, 412. 

 — , — education iii elemen- 

 tary schools of, 78. 



— , cotton imports from British' 

 colonies, 60. 



— , — — into, 60, 108, 

 284. 



