4ii6 



liicinus communi?, (castor oil plant), 238. 

 Eobusta coflee, 20. 



— — , quality of, 20. 

 Jiosa centifoli.i, 153. 



— daniascena, 153. 



Kotbanisted Kxpeiimental Station, An 

 ■ i.ual Report, 1912, 190. 

 Loyal Agricultural Show, 271. 

 Eubber bladders for footballs, \oC>. 

 — , Castilloa in Dominica, 203. 

 — , Ceara, 104. 



— , competitions at the Fourth Interna- 

 tional E.xbibition, 280. 



— cultivation, composition of soil suit- 

 able for, 259. 



— , effect of tapping upon composition 



of, 43. 

 — , Fibres and Cotton Tropical Products 



Exhibition, 1914, 12t. 



— exports from Federated Malay States, 

 92. 



— industry, its chemical problems, 355. 

 — , insoluble constituents, function of, 



104. 

 • — , International Exhibition, 1914, 153. 



— in the Congo, 201. 



— , machine for extracting, 223. 



— , Manihot, 317. 



— , mechanical extraction of, 327. 



— , Para, preparation of plantation, 181. 



■ — , — , quality of from various places, 



375. 

 — , — , selling methods for plantation, 



395. 

 ■ — , — , varieties of, 303. 



— plantation industry, position of, 377. 



— — life on a Malayan, 361. 



— — Para, preparation of, 174. 



— — — , - - — : a reply, 

 235. 



— — — , problem of, 342 



— — — , use of sodium bisulphite 

 in preparation of, 303. 



— planting in Formosa, 108. 



— — on hill sides, 239. 

 — , position in the East, 323. 



— , reducing prices to encourage new 



uses of, 232. 

 — , schools for the study of, 333. 

 --, s>-nthetic, 249. 



— trees, new tapping knives for, 359. 



— — , tapping by electricity, 25. 



— -. -of, 62, 



— — , watering of cuts in, 121. | 



— - vine cultivation in the Bahamas, 185. 



— vulcanized, migration of sulphur in, 

 303. 1 



— , -world's production and consumption , 



of, 132. 

 llussia, cotton consumption by, 44. 



s. 



Sabal mauritaeformis, 229. 

 Saccbaromycec-s anomalus, 91. 



I Saccharomyces apiculatus, 91. 

 Sacchulose, a new foodstuff, 24. 

 St. Croix, experiments with seedling 



canes in, 197. 

 — , introduction of motor ploughing 



into, 359. 

 St. Kitts, ugricuUurnl affairs in, 239. 



— agricultural and indu'^trial show in, 

 103. 



— — — — — , 1&13, 

 13.5. 



— — scholarships at Grammar 

 School, 79. 



St. Lucia, agricultural education in, 159. 



— , — teaching in, 19. 



— , agriculture in, 185. 



— , budding of the mango in, 4, 19. 



— , cacao grafting in, 19. 



— , — output from, 19. 



— , distribution of plants in, 4. 



— , importation of bees Ordinance, 44. 



^, lime cultivation in, 151. 



— , malaria-carrying mosquitoes in, 13. 



St. Michael's orange, 132. 



St. A^incent Agricultural Credit and 



Loan Bank, Ltd., Report of, 61. 

 — , an appreciation of, 125. 



— and artificial manures, 296. 

 • — , exports from, 31. 



— , extension of crops in, 28. 



— , Princess Marie Louise at, 125. 



— , rainfall and cotton crop in, 79. 



— , Sea Island cotton growing competi- 

 tion in, 406. 



- — , vanilla cultivation in, 116. 



Salix viminalis, 63. 



Salt, common, etlect on growth of sugar- 

 cane, 259. 



Salts, manurial, effects on germination, 

 136. 



Sarsaparilla on the London market, 15, 

 47, 111, 143, 191, 22.i, 255, 287, 319, 

 351, 399. 



Scard, F. J., 215. 



Schools, secondary, practical work in, 

 313. 



Science instruction in British Guiana, 

 41. 



Sea Island cotton-growing competition in 

 St. Vincent, 406. 



Secale cereale, 9. 



Seedling plants, superiority of tin cans 

 over pots for raising, 200 



Seed.s and cuttings, variability in quality 

 of, 7:!. 



— , germination energy of, 11. 



Seychelles, bananas cultivated in, 340. 



Sheep, worms in, 150. 



Siam, rice exports from, 44. 



Silk cocoons, wild, from Mozambique, 

 137. 



— cotton (Eriodetidron anfractuosutii), 

 326. 



— production in France, 77. 



Sisal hemp in Cierman I'.ast Africa, 234. 

 Snowy heron (A'</i(;<^( candidiissima), 31. 



Soil, action of sulphur on, 24. 



— analysis, new method of, 57. 



— , complexity of micro cTganic popula- 

 tion of, 134. 



— , composition of in the Virgin Islands^ 

 335. 



— constituents, organic, 184. 



— , cupric treatments and the nitrification 



of, 358. 

 — , diatributic'D of water in, 141. 

 — , effect of partial sterilization of, 207. 



— fertility, recent publications on, 71. 



— investigation-, recent American wor^ 

 310. 



— , method of estimating calcium car- 

 bonate in, 335. 

 — , non-available water in. 415. 

 — , rhizobia in, 41. 



— sickness and partial sterilization, 125^ 

 — , streptothrix in, 105. 



— suitable for rubber cultivation, com- 

 position of, 259. 



— temperature in relation to plant 

 growth, 285. 



Soils, effect of calcium and magnesium- 



in, 21. 

 — , osmosis in, 120. 

 Sorghum halepense. It'. 

 — , prussic acid content of, 92. 

 Souma {Tryi^anofona ra:n!l>oni), 218. 

 South Africa, citrus exports from, in 



1912, 73. 



— — . cotton-growing in, 7, 



— — , Sea Island cotton in, 110. 



— — , sugar-cane cultivation '■ in, 

 115. 



South America, trials with tractors and/ 



motor ploughs in, 343. 

 Southern India, manures in, 50. 



— Nigeria, agriculture in. 57. 



Soy beans, varieties if in Bengal, 217. 

 State protection of wild plants, 280. 

 Steamship service, new, between Cana- 

 da and West Indies. 344 

 Steirastoma depressum, 27. 

 Streptothrix in the soil, 105. 

 Sterculia cineri.'i, 1P7. 

 Stizolobium aterrimum, 164 



— niveura, 19. 



Students' corner, 13, 29, 45, 61, 77 93, 

 109, 125, 141, 157, 173, 189, 205, 

 221, 237, 253, 269, i,^5, 301, 317, 

 333, 349, 365, 381, 397. 413. 



Subsoil, blasting demon.«tration in Trini- 

 dad, 1913, 3.56 



— water, 133, 155. 



Sucrose in molasses, determination of, 



163. 

 Sugar and the cost of living, 275. 

 Sugar-cane, cultivation in South Africa, 



115. 

 — , damage to, by fire, 147. 

 — , effect of common .salt on growth of, 



259. 



— experiments in Antigu.%, 35. 



— — — Assam, G7. 



