424 



Poultry, a disease of, 395. 



Practical agriculture, examinations in, 45. 



■ — — , Imperial Department ex- 



aminations in, 13. 



- — — . re.sults of examinations in 



1913, 29. 



Prickly pears fed to cattle, 219. 



- — pear, spreading of in tlie United 

 States and Australia, 58. 



Primula malacoides, 199. 



Prize-holdings competition in .Jamaica, 

 119. 



Prize pasture competition, 157. 



Propagation, ' Gootee' method of, 20. 



Pterocarpus officinalis, 294. 



Publications of the Imperial Department 

 i.f .\griculture, 40, 358, 374. 



Queensland, agriculture in, 285. 

 -T-, cotton growing in, 166. 

 - — , iiiterest in cotton, 233. 



R. 



Kabbit breeding in England, 391, 407. 



Eadio-activity and vegetation, 215. 



Padium and plant growth, 310. 



Kain bird (Tyrannus rostraius), 186. 



T'ainfall and vegetative rest, relation 

 between, 195. 



liat, economic value of, 31. 



Phar, 58. 



Ehodes grass (G Idoris yuyaiia), 140. 



— , introduction into the West 

 Indies, 85. 



ilhodesia, steam tractor ploughing in, 43. 



— , trials with new crops in, 333. 



Pice, germination of, 207. 



grain, disintegration of, 249. 

 , improvement of in Madagascar, 227. 



— , mechanical cultivation of, 22. 



- — plant, growth of in water cul- 

 tures, 125. 



- , production of, 168 



starch, fractional liquefactif)n of, 153. 

 >;ollinia orthopetala, 58. 

 Pope and its uses on the estate, 239. 

 Pothainsted Experimental Station, re- 

 port on, 1913, 184. 

 Pubber, 206. 



- and fibres. West Indian, 105. 



- , effect of coagulation on strength, 

 171, 



■ — estates, dynamite for, 30. 



- , French trade, 91. 



- in British Guiana, 229. 



^ industry, report on the Standardiza- 

 tion Committee, 27. 

 ^ , methods of collection in Holiviii, 181. 

 ^ . new u.ses for, 7 1 . 



Rubber, notes on the present position, 11. 

 — , — — — report of Standardization 



Committee, 37. 

 — , Plantation Para, variabilitj- of, 59. 



— position in Brazil, 137. 



— , synthetic, progress in, 239. 



— trade, topics of, 88. 



— varieties in Bolivia, 181. 



S. 



Saccharum arundinaceuin, 117. 



— munja, 117. 



— paernga, 117. 



— spontaneum, 117. 



St. Croix, sugar-cane experiments in, 228. 

 St. Kitts agricultural and industrial 



show, 1914, 121. 

 St. Lucia, Government lime juice factory 



in, 245. 

 — small holdings scheme, 261. 



— — , teaching of agriculture in, 221. 

 St. Vincent, agricultural position in, 121. 



— — , report on land settlements, 1912- 

 13, 8. 



— wild cotton plants in, 246. 

 Saltpetre, refining, 374. 



Sarsaparilla on the London market, 15, 

 47,79, 111, 159,207,223, 397. 



School gardens in the Leeward Is- 

 land.?, 311. 



Selective adsorption, settlement of the 

 question of, 51. 



Sesamum, cultivation and selection 

 of, 317. 



Seychelles, vanilla industry in, 354. 



Silkworm industry, notes on, 26. 



Sisal hemp, 223. 



— — and henequen, 342. 



— — cultivation in the West Indies, 134. 



— — in Fiji, 86. 



— planting in East Africa, 371. 

 — , Yucatan output, 245. 



Small holdings scheme, St. Lucia, 261. 

 Soil, alkali, and the growth of the rice 



plant, 125. 

 — , an artificial. 125. 



— bacteria, 374. 



— fertility, study of, 311. 



— , Indian, bacteriological analysis of, 5 1 . 

 — , investigation work in Federated 



Malay State.s, 125. 

 — , liming in the tropics, 226. 

 — , organic compounds in, 1 36. 



— processes, effect of arsenic on, 133. 



— solution, natural, composition of. 213. 

 ~, sterilization in the control of plant 



disease, 78. 

 — , studies in temperature, 77. 



— tiller, new, 235. 



— , wild tamarind, a renovator of, 249. 

 Soils, bacterial action and organic 



matter in Leeward Islands, 213. 



. ("alifornian, humus in, 361. 



Soils, Commission on chemical analysis- 

 of, 297. 



— , Egyptian, classification of, 125. 



— , gases of swamp rice, 1 4. 



— , Grenada, .survey of, 25. 



— , Hawaiian, effect of heat on. 155. 

 ! — , sick, 1 25. 



Sorghum, sweet, experiments with, 380. 

 i Southern India, sulxsoiling in, 103. 

 i Steam engine for sun power plants, 123. 

 ! — ploughing in Bombay, 103. 



— tractor ploughing in Rhodesia. 43. 

 Stizolobium aterrimum. 293, 



— pach}4obium. 293. 

 Stomata and leaf movement, 347. 

 Stomosys calcitrans, 23. 

 I Straits Settlements, agricultural indus- 

 tries in. 143. 

 'students' Corner, 13,29, 45, 60, 205, 

 I 221, 237, 253, 269, 285, .301, 315, 



331. 347. 363, 379, 395, 411. 

 : Sugar, importation into Great Britain 

 1 in 1913. 57. 

 — , review of the past crop of Porto- 

 ! Rico, 114. 

 j Sugar-cane, determination of varieties 



by stomatal characteristics, 244. 

 — , experiments in St. Croix, 228. 



— — — ■ the Leeward Islands, 

 1912-13, 99. 



— , — with, in- Porto Rico, 1913, 19. 



— , manuring of, 211. 



— , recent progress in cultivatir>,iof, 



259. 



— , topping of, 277. 

 Sugar Industry: — 



A successful method of transporting 

 cane, 146. 



An electrically driven cane mill, 147. 



Beet sugar in California, 385. 



Benefits of using tops for planting, 

 369. 



Cane cultivation in South Africa, 131. 



Cane sugar's opportunity, 353. 



Denatured sugar, 37. 



Deterioration of seedling canes in 

 Hawaii; 115. 



— — sugar on storage, 384. 

 Eft'ect of manures on the time of 



ripening of sugar-canes, 83. 



Granulators or sugar-drying ma- 

 chines, 385. 



Government Co-operative Central Fac- 

 tories for Queensland, 55. 



Sugar industry in Australia, 229. 



— — . new change and development 

 in. 179. 



Outline of the continental .sugar in- 

 dustry, 369. 



Palm sugar, po,5sibilities of produc- 

 tion, 321. 



Paper from megass, 369. 



Production of sugar in India, 353. 



Queensland sugar factory system. 401. 



Selection and treatment of cane cut- 

 tint's, 83. 



