427 



Plant Diseases and Fungu.- Notes 



(Concluded): — 



Sugar cane diseases in the West Indies, 

 158. 



Thielaviopsis paradoxa (pine-apple dis- 

 ease), 78, 286. 



Tricosphaeria sacchari, 15s. 



Ustilago Zeae (corn smut), ;jO, "270. 



White mould {Rhizopus fp.), 318. 



Wood rot of citrus trees in Porto 

 Kico, 62. 

 Plant, growing, effect of one, on another, 



301. 



— sanitation in Cuba, organization 

 of, 174. 



— , the living, and botany, 'J. 



— sweete-st known, 213. 



Plants, capillary watering of, 121. 



— , effects of ultra-violet rays on, 237. 



— , influence of radio-active ore on, 105. 



— leguminous, studies of, 254. 



— poisonous to stock, 23, 411. 



, tropic il, enzymes of some, 187. 



— , useful, exchange of, 139. 



, use of leid for stimulating growth 



in, 279. 



Pluchea sericea (arrow weed), 33U. 



Plukenetia conophora, a new oil plant, 

 108. 



Poison, akee, l-'iO. 



Pollination of coconut Bowers, 40. 



Pomme de rose or rose apple (Eugenia 

 fambos), 135- 



'Pop con.' (.Z'l ma)s, var. cverla), 413. 



Poppy {F'-ypaver rhoeas), 301. 



Porto Rico Agricultural R.tperiment Sta- 

 tion, 259. 



^ bat guanos of, 333. 



College of; Agriculture and 



Mechanical Arts. 261. 



— , earthquake in, 393. 



_ white sugar manufacture in, 



28. 

 Posidonia australis, 252. 

 Post-war farm tractor, 167. 

 Potash, American, 107. 



Pucus nodosus, a source of, 268. 



obtained from sea-weeds, 300. 



salts, the woikVs production of, 2 1 4. 



sunil'jwer s.eds a source of, 268. 



Potato butter, 137. 



Potatoes, effect of flowering on develop 



ment of tubers, 268. 

 _, sweet, and other vegetables, storing 



of, 107. 

 , behaviour of in the ground, 



107. 

 Pot basil {Ocimum basilicum), 11 1. 

 Poultry feeding places, 25. 

 _, lice and ticks, remedy for, 44. 

 Power alcohol, 259, 351. 

 ^ production of in Australia, 



IPreparation of castor oil, 260 

 Preservation of vegetables by fermen- 

 tation and salting, 125. 

 Preserving fish without ice, 29^. 

 Prices, wholesale, for fertilizers in 1917, 



215. 

 Prickly pear sap, use of in arsenical 



sprays, 195. 

 Primary education in British Guiana, 



219. 

 — schools of St. Lucia, hygiene in, 



347. 

 Prince Bonaparte's collection of ferns, 



301. 

 Products, new, from South Africa, 249. 

 Properties of cork wood, 357. 

 Prosopis Juliflora (mesquite), 75, 330. 

 Protium heptaphyllum, 347. 

 Provisions, gruund, profitable cultivation 



of, 232 

 Psidium guayava (guava), 135. 

 Psychotria ipecacuanha, 76. 

 Pusa wheats, 248. 



Q 



Quassia amara (Surinam i|uassia), 74. 

 Queensland, sorghum tests in, 63. 

 — , sorghums in, 147. 



— sponges, 4 1 



Quiscalus fortirostris (Barbados blackbird 

 or 'Bequia sweet'), 205. 



— sp. (blackbir!). 283. 



proposals for, 203. 

 _ supply, electric, 255. 



R 



Ilagi (EUtisine coracana), 397. 



Ptainbird or pitirre (Tyranus domini- 

 censis), 107. 



Rainfall in Dominica in 1917, 72. 



Raisin-producing countries of the world, 

 412. 



Rajania pleionura, 68. 



Rats as carriers of swine fever, 5. 



— , cement as poison for, 396. 



Rays, ultra-violet, effects of on plants, 

 237. 



Recipe for making corn bread, 124. 



— preparation of coco-nut press- 

 cake for human food, 349. 



Red cedar (Cedrehx odoral't), 211. 



Research in wheat growing, 281. 



— work and applied science, 72. 

 Resources, agricultural, of Jamaica, 142. 

 — , economic, of St. Lucia, 104. 

 Rhodesia, tapioca starch from, 57. 

 Rice c'ultivvtion in British Guiana, 308. 



— industry, British Guiana, in 1917, 

 1.56 



— — of British Guiana, 60. 



— production in thi United States, 

 60. 



Ricinus communis (castor oil), 139, 181. 



— Gibsoni, 100. 403. 



Robotham. .J. A., 243. 



Royal Agricultural and Commercial 



Society, British Guiana, 292. 



— palm (Oreodoxa regia,, 237. 

 Rubber, African (Funtumia elastka), in 



Trinidad. 22, 23. 

 — , Central American {Castilloa elas- 



/tea), in Trinidad, 22, 23. 



— cultivation in the Malay Peninsula, 

 188. 



— — — Trinidad. 22. 



— , Hevea, papain as a coagulant for, 

 108. 



— in North Borneo, 295. 



— , Para {He'vea lirasi/iensis),in Trini- 

 dad, 22. 23. 



— seed. Para, commercial possibilities 

 «f. 229. 



— substitutes, 233. 



— , the world's total output of, 220. 



s. 



St. Kitts, items of local interest, 21, 52, 

 84, 134, 157, 180, 229. 262, 294* 

 350, 372. 407. 



St. Lucia, economic resources of, 104. 



— — , Government granary in, 108. 



— — , items of local interest, 36, 52, 

 84, 134, 20.5. 228, 277, 311. 350. 

 372. 406. 



— . primary schools of, hygiene in 

 347. 

 St. Vincent, control of cotton stainers in 

 220. 



— — , cotton and corn in, co-opera- 

 tive purchase of, 231. 



— — — , local prices of, 196. 



— — , Dolichos hybrids in, 85. 



— — . Indian corn ludustry of. 356. 



— — . items of local interest, 20, 

 52, 84, 134, 16.5. 205, 228, 277, 294 

 350. 372. 



— — , tomato breeding in, 4. 



— — , water lilies in, 230. 

 Salad palm, or ' pacaya*, 1 20. 



Saman tree (Pithswlobium Sxnfiii). 46. 



Sandalwood, 79. 



Santalum album. 79. 



Santo Domingo, agriculture in, 73. 



— — , cultivation of castor oil plant 

 in, 220. 



Sapodilla (AchnK Snpoti\ 249. 

 Sapucaya nut (Lecythis Zibucijo), 221. 

 Sarawak bean (Dolichos Hosei)^ as a 



cover crop. 120. 

 Sar.-aparilla on the London market 31 



9.5, 127. 1.59. 191, 239. 2.55. W 



367. 3s3. 

 Sawdust, making piper from, 332. 

 Scaly leg in fowls, treatment for, 29?. 

 School gardens in .Jamaica, 5. 

 Science, application of, to agriculture, c. 

 Scientific research in agriculture, 303, 



