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INDEX. 



A. 



Abnormalitie?, tioral, in maize, 153. 

 Acficia decurrens. var. mollis, (\?>. 



— normalis, (i3. 



— pycnanlha. Go. 

 Acrocomia sclerocarpa. 1^0. 

 Adulteration of jam.'. lO-'i. 

 Africa, cotton production in. 134. 

 .\ariiultural at!'air.s in I'.riti.sh Hondura.', 



"24'.'. 



— _ _ St Ivitt.s -JSi). 



— and industrial exhiliitioii, Antigua, 

 107. 



— — — • show in St. Kitt.s. 103. 

 135. 



— bank of Kgypt, "211. 



— - college, colonial, at Tunis, 237. 



— colleges for the tropic?, 245 



— — in the tropic?. 312. 



— credit. I'.if^. 



— — and Loan Bank, Ltd., St. 

 Vincent, report of. 91. 



— — — the West Indies. 40.s. 



— — societies, encouragement of 

 in ^Vest Indie-. 307. 



— demonstration in the Philippine 

 Islands. .">07. 



— development in United Kingdom, 43. 



— — — West Indies, 297. 



— education in Italy, 45. 



— examinations, 13, 



— implements in Japan. 201. 



— meteorology, international organiza 

 tion of, 73. 



— progress in British Guiana, 169. 



— — — Curacao, 393, 



— — — Jamaica, 5. 



— research and India, 392. 



— — . French and fierman Colo- 

 nies and, 37(>. 



— scholarships at St. Kitts' Grammar 

 School. 79. 



— show at Antigua, 92. 



— , Montserrat, S-"). 

 ■ — shows, labels for, 221, 



— societies (Special Loans) Law, 1912, 

 Jamaica, lOS. 



■ — teaching in St. Lucia, 19. 

 Agriculture, educational value of, 171. 

 — , e.xpki&ives in. 136. 



— in Java, 277. 



— — Morocco. 105. 

 St. Luciii. lf^5. 



- — — Southern Nigeria. 57. 



— , |irogr[.-.< in the Philippines, 21. 



Agri(ulture. tropical, problems awaiting 



solution in, 40.s. 

 Albizzia Lcbliek (West Indian ebony 



tree). 332. 

 Alcohol as a motor fuel. 327. 

 Aleurites Fordii (wood oil tree), 403. 



— niontana (wood-oil tree), 403. 



— triloba (wood oil tree), 403. 

 Alfalfa, new varieties of, 105. 

 Alkaloids, vegetable. 317. 

 Alpinia nutans. ,S|. 

 Aluminium nitride 



44. 

 Angiospermae, 5. 

 Animal nutrition, 141 



a possible manure. 



Animal.'--. I'juopean, in Brazil. 391. 

 — , ophthalmia in, l(i3. 

 .Anona glabra (Mamon), 324. 

 .\ronas, nomenclature of the cultivated 



Anopheles albimanus. 13. 

 — argyrotar.-is, 13. 

 Antigua Agricultural an( 

 Society, 121. 



exhibition. 107. 



Commercial 



industrial 



— , — — show at. 92. 



— , average rainfall in. 14(». 

 - — , condition of peasant cotton growers 

 in, 374. 



— Horticultural Society, 124, 

 — , pasture competition at, 99. 

 — , plant distribution in, 28, 92 



— , sugar-cane experiments at, 35, 339. 

 Arabian cotlee, 20. 

 Araucaria l>id« illii, 5. 

 — - brasiliensis, 5. 



— Cookii, 5. 



— Cunninghamii, 5. 



— Dombeyi, 5. 



— excelsa, 5, 



— imbricata. 5. 



Ardea virescens (green heron) 

 Argemone niexicana, 72. 

 Arrowroot on the London 

 79, 255. 319, 351, 399. 



314. ! 



market, 15, 

 green, adul- 



x\rscnatR of lead and Paris 



teration of, 291. 

 Arsenic, presence of in plants, 233. 

 Artiticial ripening of bitter fruits, 52. 

 Asbestos rooting and conflagrations, 323. 

 Assam, sugar-cane experiments in, 07. 

 Attalea Cohune, 229. 

 Australia and British (.'otton Growing 



Association, 390. 

 Azoa, 44. 

 Azotobacter, 25. 



B. 



Bacillus aceti. 91. 



— mycoides, 21. 



— prodigiosus. 181, •JJ2. 



— subtilis. 91. 165. 



Bacteria, denitrifyint.'. reipiirements of, 



89, 

 Bacterium malvacearuni (cotton liacte- 



rium", 62. 

 I'.ahamas. rubber-vine cultivation in, \>'>. 

 — , export of oranges from. 78. 

 Balls, W. 1,., 23. 



Balsam tree of Virgin (iorda, 122. 

 Banana cloth, 76. 



— collection, a Philippine. 372. 



— cultivation in British Guiana. 312. 



— industry in Honduras. 100. 

 P>ananas. cheap and satisfactory way fif 



shipping, 24 4. 

 — , insects attacking. 26. 

 — , Jamaican, taxation of, 233. 

 — , Panama disease of in Jamaica, 5. 

 — , varieties cultivated in Seychelles, 



340. 

 Barbados, area of cotton in, 00. 

 — , cotton-breeding experiments at, 85. 



— Education (iazettc, 41. 



— , experiments with provision crops at, 



85. 

 — , sugar output of, 12 1. 

 Barosiua spp., 15. 

 Barrel, reversible steel. 147. 311. 

 Bay oil. action of on lead. 278. 

 Beans, Bengal, feeding value of. 164. 

 Bees, Importation Ordinance. St. Lucia, 



44. 

 Bengal, date sugar industry in, 243. 

 -- grame. 19. 



— , varieties of soy beans in, 345. 

 Berbice, disease of horses in, 345. 

 Bermuda, botanical exploration in, 89. 

 Biota orientalis, 5. 



Biriba tree (Jiollinid ortkopetala), 324 

 lilue herna (Fturi'la Coi-rnlea), 314. 

 Boards of industrial training, 40. 

 Boll-shedding in cotton, 23. 

 Bombax rhodognaphalon, 2<s'. 



— sp., 29. 

 Books reviewed : — 



A Handbook of (jeneral Infonna 

 tion on the \'ir;,'in Island.*, Fish 

 lock, 101. 



Farm .Management, Warren. 231. 



Mozambique : Its Agricultural De- 

 velopment, Lyne, 199. 



Plantation White Sugar Jfanufacture, 

 Harlofl' and Schmidt. 347. 



