434 



Artocarpiis odoratissima ('marang'), 116.1 



Arundinaria simouichino, 46. 



Asimina triloba, 248. 



Atmospheric nitrogen, assimilation of, 



107. 

 Atropa Belladonna (Nightshade), 300. 

 Auximt'iies and bacterized peat, 349. 

 Averrhoa bilimbi (Bilimbi), 116, 300. 



— carambola (Carambola), 116, 303. 

 Aviculture, economic, 197. 



Avocado cultivation in the West ladies, 

 204. 



— in California, 20. 



— pear, composition of, 220. 

 Azores, pine-apples from, 277. 

 Azotobacter chroococcum, oO. 



B. 



Babesia.sis, 92. 

 Bacon, curing of, 61. 

 — , dry-sailing, 3b. 



— factory, a successful, 3(). 



— — . breeding and feeding pigs for, 

 260. 



• — — , the Salisbury, 319 



— inve.stigations. 169. 

 Bacteria in soil, enemies of, 399. 

 Bacterial activity and crop production, 



connexion between, 110. 

 Bacteriological studies of the soil, 36.5. 

 Bacterized peat and auximones, 349. 

 ■ — — , exaggerated .statements concern- 

 ing, 233. 



Bahamas, agricultural conditions in, 373. 

 — , marine industries of, 412. 

 ■ — , sponge cultivation in, improvement 



of, 392. 

 Bahia navel orange, expedition to find 



origin of, 361. 

 Balbergia latifolia, 28. 

 Ballou, H. A., 194. 

 Banana, Chinese, in .Jamaica, 424. 



— stalks and skins a source of potash, 

 332. 



• — trade of Fiji with Australia, 428. 



— , useful facts concerning, 26s. 



Bananas cultivation of, 92. 



— , Philippine, 2S4. 



Barbiidos, Mgiicultural conditions in, 365. 



— annual exhibition, 8. 



— — — awards at, 22. 



— i\ni\y (iliilpighia f)lalira), 250. 



— cows, 158. 

 — , crop conditions in, 371, .''87. 



— donkeys, 158. 



— gonts, 158. 



— , improvement in goats in, 108. 

 — , scarcity of jiigs in, 156. 

 — , school gardening in, 84. 

 — , Sea Is'and cottnn in, 54. 

 ■ — setdling canes in the Argentine, 124. 

 •— sour grass (Andropogon pertusua), 



179. 

 — , sugar-cane crop in, 351. 



— — fxperiments. 1914-16, 405. 

 Barbuda bean {Pliaseolus lunaUts), 79. 



— , description of, 286. 



— stock furm, 159. 

 Barn-owl {Stryx fiavimea), 197. 

 Bay oil and bay rum industry in 



St. Lucia, 140. 



— — , central distillation of, 252. 



— — qonstanlii, 364. 



— rum industry of the Danish West 

 Indie.s 349. 



— tree as a crop plant, 195, 228. 



— — experiments in ilontserrat, 23. 



— — ., true and ft Ise, 243. 

 Beans, (riental species of, 101. 

 Belgian Congo, fibie and cotton in, 121. 

 Belladonna plants, alkaloidal content of. 



106. 

 Benzoate of soda as substitute for sugar, 



333. 

 Berkshire and Tamworth boars in the | - 



Virgin Lslands, 158. 

 Bermuda bulb and tuber trade, 20. I - 



Bilimbi (4 1'eci/ioa bilimbi). 116. 

 Birds, fancy plumage, domestication of, 



41, 57. 



— of Porto Rico, 219. 

 Black bird or ' Bequia Sweet ' {tjuiscnlus 



lummosus), 218. 



— rat (Ef'imys [Mus] ratlus), 90. 



— .sage (Cordia cylindrnstachy^), 202. 

 Blechnum occidentale, 284. 

 Blighia sapida (akee), 265. 

 Blight-proof coffee for the Philippines, 



345. 

 Blue Mountain coflfee: a correction, 59. 

 Boilers, steam, maintenance of, 61. 

 Bois Bambarra ( Diospytos ebenaster), 



270. 



— Hot (Ochroma lagojm^), 74 

 Bombay experimental wurk in, 379. 

 Bonavist, or hyacinth bean {DoUchos 



lablab) 53. 

 Books leviewed : — 



Egypt of the Egyptians, Balls, 141. 



Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, 

 Knox, 397 



Green Manures and Manuring in the 

 Tropics, de Sornay (trans.) Fiatteley 

 363. 



Orgaiic Agricultural Chemistry, Cham- 

 berlain, 317. 



Productive F;irm Crops, Montgom- 

 mery, 221. 



Science of Dairying, Penlington, 173. 



Sub-tropical Vegetable Gardening, 

 Bolf, 237. 



Sulphitation in White Sugar Manu- 

 faciure. Maxwell, 397. 



The Genus Phoradendron Trelease, 

 413. 



The I'rinciples of Agronomy, Franklin 

 and Stewart, 333. 



The Rubber Industry of the .\iuazon, 

 and bow its supremacy can be main- 

 tained, Woodroffe an<l Smith 7. 



The Spirit of the Soil, Knox and 

 Bottomley, 173. 

 Botanic gardens, a useful function of, 375. 

 — — , Geylon, history of, 121. 



Botanic gardens, nature study in, 24. 

 Botanical identity of West Indian sour 



grasses, 179. 

 Botany in the iropics, 404. 

 Bougainvillaea glabra, 235. 



— hybrid 235. 



— laterita, 220. 



— sanderiana, 220. 



— speciosa, 235. 



— spectabilis, var. laterita, 235. 

 Bovine tuberculosis, 26. 

 Brazil, cattle rearini; in, 303 

 — , cotton in, 169. 

 — , mate tea production in, 409. 

 — , sugar crops in 1914-15, 18,S. 

 Breeding of pigs, 383. 

 Briti.sh Cotton Growing Association, 6, 



127, 18.3, 231, 2.-)9, 374, 419. 



West Indies, 71. 



— and the 



— — — — , Imperial 

 grant to, I 24 



British Guiana, oeo-nut industry in, 

 245. 



— — , coffee cidtivation in, 252. 



— — , Co-operative Credit Bank 

 Ordinance, 201. 



— — , Crown land development in 

 294. 



— — industrial school, 169. 



— — , manuring of cacao in 149. 



226. 



school gardens in, 58. 

 sugar-cane experiments 



in. 



— — , veterinary report, 279. 

 British Honduras, copra manufacture in, 



88. 



— — in 1914. 73. 

 British India, agricultural statistics of 



408. 



— possessions and foreign countries, 

 recent trade of, 249. 



British Solomon Islands, trade and 

 export; of, 312. 



— sugar consumption, 131. 



— — industry, 217. 



— West Indies, export of logwood pro- 

 hibittd from, 60. 



Budding cacao in Trinidad, 100. 

 Bulb and tuber trade, Bermuda, 20. 

 Buoj'ancy of life-jackets, 243. 

 Burgundy paste, 30. 

 Burleigh," A. S , 234. 

 l?urma, rubber cultivation in, 380. 

 Piurr grass, value of, 1 1 1. 

 Bursera gummifera, 407. 

 Butorides v. cubanus, 219. 

 Butter making, pasteurization of cream 

 for, 25. 



Cabbage palm (Ottodoxn oleracea), 106. 

 t 'acao, Accra output for 191.">, 318. 

 — buddinf; in Trinidad, 100. 



