431 



Poultry Notes {Continued): — 



feeding poultry with corn, 87. 



Indian Runner ducks, 415. 



points of Plymouth Piocks, 415. 



rheumatic troubles of poultry, 43. 



the breeding and rearing of tur- 

 keys, 1.5.5. 



to judge the age of a fowl, 155. 

 Powell wood process, 201. 

 Preliminary Examination papers, 381. 

 Preservation of copra, "265. 



— — timber, 137, 377. 

 Prickly pear, alcohol from, 235. 



— — as a cattle food, 235. 



— — , de.struction of, 173. 



— — , for destroying mcsquitos, 333. 



— — , paper pulp from, 235. 



— — , utilization of, 235. 

 Prize-holdings competition, Carriacou, 391. 



— — - — , Dominica, 149. 



— — — , Grenada, 211. 



— — — , Jamaica, 216, 409. 

 Prizes awarded at Agricultural Schools, 



120. 



Productivity of .soils, maintenance of, 205. 



Products obtained from cacao, 3G. 



' Progeny rows' in cotton selection, 70. 



Propagating mangos, method of, 104. 



Propagation of the avocado pear, 116. 



Prospects of vanilla-growing, 52. 



Proteids, formation in plants, 316. 



Protoascina', description of, 126. 



Protodiscineie, description of, 126. 



Prussic acid, production by plants, 274. 



Pseudoscorpionida, description of, 202. 



Publications of the Imperial Department 

 of Agriculture, 72, 88, 168, 184, 296 



Pumpkin .seed, oil from, 316. 



Pure Food Law of the U.S. and van- 

 illa, 149. 



Pure starters for butter-making, 20. 



Purification of beeswax, 181. 



Purub' process, 143. 



Pycnidia, definition of, 142. 



Pycnogonida, 203 



Pyrenomycetes, description of, 127. 



Pyrophorus noctiluca, 138. 



Q- 



Queensland, West Indian seedling canes 

 in, 72. 



Quinine salts, purity of, 140. 



Quiscalus crassirostris, savannah black- 

 bird, 247, 347. 



— fortirostris, introduction into Antigua, 

 348. 



R. 



Raiti'eisen banks in Servia, 92. 



Rain gauges, comparative records of, 316. 



Rainfall in Antigua, 152, 363. 



— — Dominica, 121, 411. 

 _ — Xevi,s, 347. 



— — St. Lucia, 136, 327. 



Rainfall in St. Lucia, abnormal, 201. 



__ _ Tortola, 327. 



Ramljong, Assan; rubber, six Ficus elas- 

 tica. 



Ramie, rhea, see Boehmeria nivea. 



Ramie wool, 344. 



Ratin II, 316. 



Reading courses examinations, presenta- 

 tion of certificates, 12. 



Reafforestation in Italy, 12. 



Red gum, see Eucalyptus rostrata. 



Red-headed fungus, Spha'rostilbe cocco- 

 phila, 127, 175, 362. 



Red ironbark, see Eucalyptus sideroxylon. 



Red spider, Tetranychus telariu.s, 218. 



Reducta.se test, 313 



Renard road train, 185. 



Reproduction in the fungi, types of, 78. 



Requisites in paper-making material, 361. 



Research and agricultural experiment 

 stations, 129. 



lieunion, production of vanilla in, 236. 



Rey, C, 314. 



Rheumatism in poultry, 43. 



Pihipicephalus sanguineu.s, dog tick, 247. 



Rhodesia, cotton in, 102, 358. 



Rice, boiled, composition of, 197. 



— , composition of, 197. 



— crop of Japan, 1909,108. 

 — , cultivation in Brazil, 220. 

 — , — of, 308. 



— , effect of cooking, 197. 



— experiments in British Guiana, 279. 

 — ■ — in United States, 63. 



— imports into the United States, 204. 



— in British Guiana, 1.5, 31, 63, 79, 

 85, 125, 154, 187, 389, 411. 



— in Japan, 313, 396. 

 Trinidad, 154. 



— • industry of British Guiana, develop- 

 ment of, 44. 

 — , manuring of, 328. 

 — , prices of in United States 1909, 63. 



— production in Java, 239. 



— , rough, for feeding horses and mules, 



367. 

 — , yields of, in United States, 63. 

 Ripening of fruits, cause of, 332. 

 Rorer, J. B., 222, 238, 254, 3-50, 414. 

 Roselle, see Hibiscus Sabdarifl'a. 

 Rough rice for feeding horses and mules, 



367. 

 Round buildings for agricultural pur- 

 poses, 153. 

 Royal Commission on Trade Relations 



between Canada and the West Indies, 



12, 172. 

 Rubber, a new, 120. 

 Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition, 



1911, 60, 156, 172, 220, 284, 300, 357, 



396, 407. 

 — , Brazilian, exports of 1909, 55. 

 — , — , prices 1908 and 1909, 



55. 

 — , — , visible supply 1910, 55. 



— collection, glass cups for, 76 

 — ■ consumption, forecast of, 55. 



Ruliber cultivation in Bolivia, 200. 



— e.xperiment station in Sumatra, 108. 

 — ■ exploitation in Brazil, 8, 236. 



— — — British Honduras, 172, 

 363. 



— exports from the Federated Malay 

 States, 204, 252, 348, 396. 



— — — A.shanti, 300. 



— — — Bolivia, 200. 



— — — Brazil, 252, 297. 



— — — British Guiana, 123. 



— — — Ceylon, 364. 



— — — Mexico, 313. 



— Para, 156, 332. 



— — — Trinidad, 154. 



— for manufacture, preparation of, 215. 



— growing, encouragement in Brazil, 

 151. 



— Guayule, 294. 



— — , production of, 172. 



— in Ceylon, 403. 



— -Fiji, 57. 



— • — Java, capital for, 239. 



— — Nyasaland. 393. 



— industry of Brazil, 55, 252, 297. 



— — — Cochin-China, 236. 

 — , insect pests in Uganda, 42. 



— Jequie Mani^joba, distance of plant- 

 ing, 211. 



— latex, diastases in, 249. 



— — , method for coagulating, 236. 

 — , Nandi, 376. 



— on the Gold Coast, 25, 389. 



— output of Peru, 204. 

 — , Palo Amarillo, 109. 



— , Para, means for preparing, 143. 

 — , — , distances for tapping, 303. 

 — , — , exports from Strait Settlements, 

 236. 



— plantations, area in the East, 1910, 55. 

 — , proper size of blocks, 215. 



— plants for Trinidad, 154. 



— — , rates of growth of, 103. 



— production in British East Africa, 203. 

 — , separation by electricity, 252. 



— , sources of the world's supply, 133. 



— statistics. Federated ilalay States, 

 396. 



— , supply of, to Japan, 329. 

 — , tackiness in, 89. 



Ruljber-tapping experiments in Ceylon, 

 354. 



— trials in British (iuiana, 123. 

 Rubber tree, the Tonkin, 165. 



— trees and green manuring, 13, 185. 



— — , composition of latex, 119. 



— — , Jequie Manigoba, 211. 



— — , marking, 303. 



— — , Para, tapping of, 303, 311. 



— — , some disea.ses of, 302, 318, 

 334. 



— — , topping of, 311. 

 — , varieties of, 231. 

 Rubber-yielding Plumeria.s, 28. 

 Russell and Hutchin.son, 33, 34, 107, 



323. 

 Russel, E. J., 401. 



