421 



Farm tractor, post-war, 167. 

 Farming in Australia for discharged sol- 

 diers, 147. 

 __ _ South Africa, 281. 

 Feijoa sellowiana (pineapple guava), 77, 



135. 

 Fertility, humus content of soil as guide 



to, 83. 

 Fertilizer, cheap, for growing flowers and 



vegetables, 300. 

 Fertilizers and chemicals employed in 



agriculture, the world's production of, 



214. 

 — , wholesale prices of inJ1917, 215. 

 Fiji, Johnson grass (Sorghum halipense) 



in, 392, 396. 

 Filtration of cane juices. 324. 

 Fish, preserving with lU icc, 290. 

 . — skins, demand for 58. 



— — , tanning of, 108. 



— supply of, in Trinidad, 60. 

 Flacourtia Ramon tchi, 189. 



. — aepiaria, 189. 



Flora of Bermuda'. 268- 

 Florida, citrus conditions in, 173. 

 coerulea coerulescens (little blue 



heron or gaulding) of, 107. 

 — , re,suscitation of sugar industry in, 



140. 

 (Flowers, cheap fertilizer for growing, 300. 

 Flowering on lime estates, relation of, to 



crop, 105. 

 Food-borne infections, 103. 

 Food consumption, economy in, 47. 



control committee in Barbados, 24. 



. — crops, native, campaign in Grenada, 



245. 

 . — , false and true economy in, 185. 



— hoarding, 167. 



. — mammal, a new, ll-"), 216. 

 .— of the West Indies, 50, 68. 



— production campaign in England and 

 Wales, results of, 199- 



. question in Jamaica, 170. 



situation in Bermuda, 158. 



_ — Dominica, 21. 



supply, new sources of, 265, 



_ ~, Trinidad's, 169. 



value of sugar-cane, 324. 



,— values, meaning of, 69. 



Foodstutt's in Malaya, 13. 



Forage shrubs, perennial, 217. 



Forestry in Cyprus, 265. 



_ — Trinidad, 233. 



Forests in modern warfare, value of, 



281. 

 Formosa, sugar production in, 300. 

 Four o'clock (Mirabilis Jalap.i), 363. 

 Fowls, a berry poisonous to, 1 87. 

 Fowls' rations, benefit of adding fresh 



bullocks' blood to, 339. 

 — , scaly leg in, treatment for, 297. 

 French bean {Phascoliis vulgaris), 195. 

 French West Indies, vanilla crop in, 185. 



Frog, edible (Leptodactvlus penladac- 



tylus), 68. 

 Frost, Henry W. k Co., 6, 22, 38, 54, 



86, 102, 118, 134. 150, 166. 182. 198, 



246, 340, 390, 414. 

 Fruit and vegetables, simple methods of 



keeping fresh, 155. 

 — , cabbage palm, as a food for hogs, 



171. 

 — , citrus, of the Philippines, a new, 



.361. 



— crops, influence of bees on, 268. 



— cultivation in Trinidad, 221. 



— trees, intermittent bearing of, 312. 

 Fruits and vegetables, home drying of, 



278, 279. 



— trees, variability of yield in, 1 26. 

 Fucus nodosus, a source of potash, 28. 

 Funtuniia elastica (African rubber) in 



Trinidad, 22, 23. 

 Furcraea gigantea (Piteira) , 140. 

 Fusanus accuminatus, 79. 



— spicatua, 79. 



G. 



Gacia blanca (Cyiisus pallidus), 217. 



— {Cytisus sfenopetalus\ 217. 

 Gambia, exports of ground nuts from, 60. 

 Gambler, Chinese, or ' cunas', increased 



use of, IS 3. 

 Garden competitions, value of, 203. 

 — , small vegetable, 222. 

 — , the home vegetable, 216. 

 Genetic investigation in the tropics, 



material for, 181. 

 Genip {MeliaK-ca bijuga), 139. 

 Geography, place of in education, 275. 

 Ginger on the London market, 31,95, 



127, 159, 191, 239, 255, 287, 367, 383. 

 Girardinus poeciloides ('millions'), 230, 



355. 

 Glass milk bottle, a peraicious germ 



carrier, 124. 

 Gliricidia maculata, 26. 

 Goats' milk, advantages of asing, 188. 

 Goat Society, Barbados, 408. 

 Golden apple (Spondias diikis), 207. 

 Gossypium, does mutation occur in? 148, 



— barbadenee, 37. 



— herbaceum, 37, 



— petuviannm, 332. 

 Go-ta-ni bean, 342. 



Government control of natural indigo, 

 73. 



— Granary, Antigua, 85, 393. 



— — , St. Lucia, erection of, 108. 

 Granadilla {Passijlora ouadrangiilaris), 



221. 

 Granary, Antigua Government, 85, 393. 

 — , St. Lucia Government, erection of, 



108. 



Granaries in Jamaica, 152. 

 Grape culture in South Africa, 231. 

 Grasses, Johnson and Sudan, in Ikri 



bados, 168. 

 Grass, mud-bindiog, tl. 

 — , Sudan, dying nut of clumps of, 184. 



— trees, economic value of. 179. 

 Gree-gree or Chicken hawk {BuUo until' 



larum), 107. 

 Green heart {Nectrandra Rodioei), 347, 



- manure crops in Southern Clalifornia 



344. 



legumes, comparative value of, 



120. 



Grenada, agriculture in, 175, 351. 

 — , items of local interest, 36, 84, 101, 



180, 228, 277, 331, 3.50, 359, 372. 

 — , native food crops campaign in, 245, 

 Ground nuts, export from Gambia, 60^ 



— provisions, profitable cultivation of, 

 232. 



' Grumichama' (Eugenia Dombeyi), 135^ 

 Guadeloupe, cultivation of tomatoes and 



asparagus in, 41. 

 — , vanilla crop of, 405. 

 Guatenialau sugar industry, 57. 

 Guava, pine-apple (Feijoa seliowtatia\ 



77. 



— (Fsidium guavava), 135. 

 Guayule, successful cultivation of, 253. 

 Guinea fowl (jVumida me/eagris), 109. 



— grass (Panieum mi^ximum), 186. | 

 ' Gully root ' (Pettiveria alliacea), 23. 

 Gum copal ( TrachyloMum verrucosum\^ 



55. 



Hawaii, average yield per acre of augaiw 



cane in, 167. 

 Hawaiian cane fields, tractors in, 357. 

 Hawaiian Islands, pine-apple industry 



in, 204. 

 Helianthus doronicoides, 365. 



— subtuberosus, 365. 



— tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke), 

 365. 



Hemp (Cana/iis safiva), 340, 



— New Zealand (Phormium tenax\ 

 367. 



Henequen (Agave fourcroydes), 153. 



— (Aguve rigida, var. e/ongafa), 204 

 Herb growing, medicinal, 291. 



Heron, Cuban green (Butorides virescens 

 cubanus), 107. 



— , or gaulding, little blue (Floridct 

 coerulea coerulescens), 107. 



Hevea brasiliensis (Para rubber) in Trin- 

 idad, 22, 23. 



— rubber, papain a.s a coagulant for. 

 108. 



Hibiscus cannabinus (til), 393. 



— esculentus (okra), 393. 



