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INDEX. 



A B C of cotton planting, 28, 45. 

 Abol, exemption from duty, 284. 

 'Absolute Juice', definition of, 147. 

 Acacia farne.siana, Eriophyidae on, 266. 

 Acarina, description of, 202, 218, 234. 

 — , families of, 218. 

 Acid content of lime fruits, 260. 



— soils, availability of pho.sphates in, .")6. 

 Acidity of soils, causes of, 194. 



Action of heat on soils, 369. 



Adansonia digitata, 169. 



Adenocalymna alliaceum, see Bignonia 



alliacea. 

 Africa, British East, rubber pr^.lllu•ti^n 



in, 203. 

 — , South, e.xport of maize from, 220. 

 — , West, importation of cotton .seed 



into, 397. 

 African fibre plant, 72. 

 Agave, cultivation in India, 31. 



— Franzosini, 236. 



— rigida, var. si.salana in Fiji, 7.'!. 

 Agricultural and Commercial Society, 



Antigua, 5. 

 — , Grenada, and Grenadian trade 69. 

 Agricultural conditions in Carriacou, 



153. 

 Agricultural Conference 1911 ,216, 337, 



349. 



— conservancy, 290. 



— Department, Leeward Islands, 169. 



— departments, uses of, 49. 



— education, see Education, Agricultural. 



— examinations, 375. 



— experiment stations, educative work 

 of, 146. 



— — — , functions of, 129, 145. 



— — — , in the German Colonies, 

 408. 



— — — , investigations in, 145. 



— — — , value of, 241. 



— implements in India, 140. 



— industries in the Leeward Islands, 

 1908-9, 121. 



— labour, supply of, 178. 



— Hiachinery at the Brussels Exhibi- 

 tion, 415. 



Agricultural I'roducts Protection Ordi- 

 nance, 1906, St. Vincent, 76. 

 Agricultural jirospects in Panama, 375. 



— purposes, round buildings for, 153. 



— research, centralization of, 353. 



— returns of Canada, 1909, 265. 



— Schools, examinations, 71, 245. 



— — , prizes awarded at, 1 20. 

 Agricultural Show, Antigua, 1909, 14. 



Agricultural Show, Barbados, 1909, 14. 



— — , St. Kitts, 332. 



— shows, demonstrations at, 105. 



— — , local, in Trinidad, 27. 



— Society of St. Lucia, premiums for 

 cotton -growing, 60 



— — , St. Vincent, 199, 229. 



— tours and conferences, 273. 

 Agriculture and the supi)ly of labour, 



177. 

 — , classes of workers in, 353. 



— in British East Africa, 203. 



— — Canouan, 262. 



I — — Cayman Island.s, 351. 



— — Carriacou, 263. 



— — elementary schools, Barbados, 255. 



— — — , St. Lucia, 153. 



— — — , Trinidad, 27. 

 Gambia, 309. 



— — India, improvements of, 332. 

 • — — Mayreau, 263. 



Xyasaland, 1909-10, 392. 



— — Sierra Leone, 377. 



— — the Argentine Republic, 108. 



— — the Northern Territories of the 

 Gold Coast, 312. 



— — Union Lsland, Grenadines, 263. 

 — , fungi in relation to, 161. 



— , Indian, improvements in, 293, 



— on the (Jold Coast, 389. 

 — , uses for dynamite in, 317. 

 — , — of electricity in, 305. 

 Aid in milk testing, 201. 



Air motors, manufacturers of, 28. 

 Alcohol in the Philippines, production of, 



71. 

 Alkalis, use in preparing cocoa, 44. 

 Aluminium nitride as a manure, 188. 

 Amblyomnia cajennense, 247. 



— maeulatum, 217. 



— dissimile, 247. 



' Amblyrhiza, discovery in St. Martin, 396. 

 Ammonia, direct production of, 335. 

 Ammoniated fruit, 386. 

 Ammonium salts, direct absorption by 



plants, 98. 

 Amygdalin, 275. 

 Anceryx fasciata, disease of, 30. 

 Andropogon caricosus, 108. 

 ! Ankylostomias Ordinance in Grenada, 



236. 

 Annam, the Cay-cay of, 41. 

 Annatto, 111. 



Annual Colonial Report on Leeward 

 Islands, 1908-9, 121. 



— Exhibition, Barbados, 1909, 14. 

 Antheridium, definition of, 110. 

 Anthrax, method for determining pres- 

 ence of, 188. 



Anthrax, new Order in Great Britain, 



380. 

 Antigua, Agricultural Show, 1909, 14. 

 — , arbor day in, 7. 

 — , area of onions in, 1909-10, 67. 

 — , areas of green dressing plants in, 37. 

 — , Botanic Station, distriluition from, 



12, 28, 92, 363, 380. 

 — , broom corn in, 9, 251. 

 — , cotton area in, 1910, 332. 

 — , — crop in, 118. 

 — , — growing in, 182. 

 — , — industry in, 363. 

 — , exports of, 121 

 — , green dre.ssings in, 37. 

 — , onions in, 67. 

 — , output of cotton, 1909-10, 182. 



— , i)asture improvement competition 

 in, 137. 



— , Plant Protection Proclamation, 364 

 — , rainfall in, 152, 363. 

 — , Conference in, 1910, 62. 

 — , stigar exports from, 121 



— sugar factory, work of, 284. 



— — factories, output of, 1908-9, 121. 

 — , yields of cotton [ler acre, 119. 

 Apothecia, definition of, 126. 

 Apparatus for soil sterilization, 267. 

 Arachis hypogaea as green manure, 325, 

 Arachnida, de.scription of, 202. 

 Araneida, de.scription of, 202. 

 Araucaria excelsa, 171. 



Arbol de la cera, see .\Iyrica jalapensis. 



Arbor day in Antigua, 7. 



Argas persicus miniatus, fowl tick, 247. 



Argentina, agriculture in, 108. 



— , cotton growing in, 252. 



Arrowroot As.sociation, St. Vincent, 285. 



— (New Markets) Ordinance St. Vin- 

 cent, 329. 



— on the London Market, 111, 143, 

 191,239, 287, 319, 367, 383. 



Articles used on estates, care of, 127. 

 Artificial manure works in Norway, 217. 



— production of nitrates, 217. 

 Ascent of water in trees, 409. 

 Ashanti, exports of rubber from, 300. 

 Asclepias curas.<:avica, suggested poison 



ous action of, 124. 



— — , uses of, 3b. 

 Asclepiadin, 38. 

 Ascomycetes, 94. 



— , description of, 126, 142. 

 Assam, agricultural education in, S9. 

 — , rubber, Hambong, see Ficus elastica. 

 — , — trees, the tapping of, 54. 

 Asphalt paint, use against mistletoe, 



103. 

 Auchinleck, G. G., 27. 



