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Abais palm (Elaeit ffuineentis), •_' 7 7 . 



Acacia tortuosa, 83 



Acetic acid made from coco nut shells, 



365 

 Acid soils, 217. 



Ad/uki l>ean (Phaseolus angulans), 158. 

 African agriculture, 35 1 . 

 Agave contala (Java hemp), 77. 

 - rigida, var. dongata (Sisal hemp — 



Mexican, etc.), 77, 109. 



— sisalana (Sisal hemp — Bahamas, 

 Florida). 75, 77, 109. 



Agricultural affairs in British Guiana, 

 211. 



— - N't-vis and Anguilla, 



39. 



— — St. Kim, 206. 



— and Commercial Society, Grenada, 

 meeting of, 278. 



— bank legislation, 169. 



— banks for Trinidad, 329. 



■ — Credit and Lean Hank, St Vincent, 

 110. 



- in Portuguese colonies, 131. 



- Ordinance, St. Lucia, 361. 



— societies, 56. 



— education in Grenada, 92. 



— St. Lucia, 204. 



— — secondary schools, 189. 



— engineering in the tropics, 216. 



— examination-. 13, 221. 



— industries in Demerara, 328. 



' Agricultural News', articles initialled in. 

 88. 



— — , index to, |H4. 

 Agricultural operations, electric power 



for, 1 t I . 

 - — progress in Fiji. 335. 



— — Grenada, 381. 



— — — Montserrat, 397. 



— — — Porto Rico, 333. 



— pupils, training of in Dominica, 1-1. 



— teaching in American schools, 409. 

 Agriculture, advance of in United States, 



' 234. 

 — , employment of explosives in, 52. 



— in .Jamaica, 319. 



the Federated Malay States, 331. 



— — Zanzibar, "'6. 

 Ajowan seeds for thymol, 313. 



_ — — - in tin- West 



Indies, 392. 

 Alcohol as fuel in Cuba, 237. 

 — , denaturant for. 237. 

 Aleurites cordata, 41. 

 Fordii, 11. 



Aleurites montana, 1 1. 



— triloba (Candle nut tree), 41. 

 Aleurodes citri (Citrus white rl » ), 94. 

 Algaroba bean (Prosopis julijlora). 190. 

 American schools, agricultural teaching 



in, 409. 



— source of potash, 76. 



Ammonia and nitrates, production of in 



Hawaiian soils. 199. 

 Ananas macrodontes, 265. 

 Andropogon halepensis (Johnson grass), 



204. 



— pertusus, 381. 



- — (Barbados sour grass), 291. 



— sorghum, var. cernuus, 412. 

 Anguilla, agricultural affairs in, 39. 

 Animal carriers of anthrax, 203. 



— foodstuffs. International Congress 

 papers on, 67. 



Anjola pea ( Voandzeia subterranea), 105. 

 Ankylostomiasis in Grenada, 267. 

 Annatto on the London Market, 271, 



303, 33."., 367. 

 Anona cherimolia (Cherimoya), 36. 



— muricata (Sour sop), 36. 



— palustris, glabra, (Mamon, Monkey 

 apple), 36. 



— reticulata, (Custard apple), 36. 



— squamosa, (Sugar app'e), 36. 

 Anthrax, animal carriers of, 203. 



— in Demerara, 108. 



— , interesting cases of, 395. 



Antigua Agricultural and Commercial 



Society, Report for 1914, 152. 

 — , by-law for sale of milk in, 153. 



— corn granary, 169. 



— , cotton cultivation in, 11. 



— , cultivation of Essex rape in, 11. 



— , experiments with root crops in, 



11. 

 — , Eucalypts in, 1 1. 

 — , export tax on sugar in, 344. 

 — , exports in 1914, 185. 

 - Government granary, 53. 



— Grammar School, report on science 

 teaching at, 189. 



— , ground waters of. 1 I".. 



— , improving local varieties of corn in, 



197. 

 — , items of local interest, 15, 68, 107, 



139, 183, 223, 245, 279. 311, 327, 



366, 383. 

 — , kiln drying of com at, 53, 75. 

 — . maize show in, 229. 



Onion Growers Association, report 



for 1911 15, 11. 321. 

 — , skin disease of cattle in, 123. 

 — , soils of, 1 1 3 



Antigua sugar factory (Gunthorpes), tea 



years' work of, 388. 

 — , tick eradication in, 219. 

 — , vegetable growing in, •"•(. 

 — , yearly rainfall in, 153. 

 Anti-stranglcs serum, 25. 

 Apis dorsata, 220. 



indica. 3t', I. 

 Arbor Day observation in Barbados, 28 t 

 Arrowroot on the London market. 31, 63, 



207, 335, 367, 415. 

 — , St. Vincent, 85. 

 Arsenite of soda as a spray for weeds,. 



124. 

 Aithrostylidium mullispicatum, 198. 

 — sarmentosum (climbing bamboo), 19», 

 Asparagus bean ( Vigna [Dolichos] sesqut- 



ped/ilis), 158. 

 Atmospheric nitrogen, fixation of on a. 



commercial scale, 254. 

 Attacus hesperus, 326. 

 Axonopus compressus, 291. 

 Azores, flora of, 91. 

 Azotobacter chroococcum, 370. 



B. 



Bacon, curing, 119, 382. 



- factory for the West Indies, sug- 

 gested, 118. 



- in Rhodesia, 1 18. 

 Bags of cacao, net weight in different 



countries, 84. 

 Bahamas, agricultural education in, 191. 

 — , citrus fruit in, 191. 

 — , cotton Sea Island, in, 191. 

 — , exports in 1913-14. 60. 

 — , Indian corn cultivation in, 191. 

 — •, onion cultivation in, 191. 

 — , peanuts, Spanish, cultivation in, 191, 

 — , peppers in, 191. 

 — , pig-raising in, 191. 

 — , pine-apples in, 191. 

 — , potatoes, Irish, in, 191. 

 — , , sweet, in, 191. 



— , produce exchange, 191. 

 — , sisal hemp exports from, 191. 



, stock-raising in, 191 . 

 — . tomato industry in, 191. 

 — , vegetable growing in, 191. 

 Balata industry in British Guiana, 21. 



- market in 1914, 87. 



Baled cotton, fumigation of. 282, 

 Balls, W. Lawrence. 31 I. 390. 

 Balsam (Copaifera officinalis), 182. 

 Bambarra ground nut. cultivation f in 



Northern Nigeria, 215. 

 Bamboo, cellulose from, 127. 



