■145 



Sugar apple (Ano7ia f/uamosa), 116. 



— beet, improvement of, 1 53. 

 Sugar-cane, Barbados ard Java seedlings 



in the Argentine, Il'4. 

 — , breeding and selection in Porto Rico, 



•275. 

 -^, colouring matter of cane juices, 389 

 . — crop in Barbados, 351. 

 Porto Pico, 3S9. 



— — — Santo l>omingo, 389. 



— cultivAtion in .Jamaica, extension of, 

 290. 



— experinaents. P.arbados, 1914-16, 405. 



— — , in British Guiana, 226. 

 — , growth of, 323. 



— , — — stem, leaf and leaf-sheath, 



99. 



— in Louisiana, use of nitrogenous 

 manures for, 131. 



— — (^)ueensland, 371. 



. St. Lucia, 311. 



— , irrigation of. 220. 



— , manuring in the West Indies, 216. 



— methods of measuring growth in the, 



.•;.50. 



— , morphology of, 268. 



— , mulching, 430. 



— , new varieties, ijuarantine and intro- 

 duction of into the United States, 263. 



--, paper manufactured from niegass of 

 in Cuba. 156. 



■ — , physiological work on, (50. 



— plants, importition from Trinidad into 

 Antigua prohibited, 383. 



— prospects in Antigua, 339. 



— — — St. Kitts, 339. 



— , returns from different varieties ;n 

 Demerara, 265. 



— seedlings B. 6450 and B. 6032 in 

 Barbados, 156. 



— , study of in India, 388. 



— that outgrew itself, 89 



— , transpiration in, I )utch observations 



on, 56. 

 . — , — ratio of, 108. 



— , transport of in ( 'uba. S3. 



— wax, 357. 



Sugar.canes I). 75 and ]). !)5in Louis- 

 iana, 412. 

 — , Indian, studies in, 34. 

 — , seedling, production of in India, 44. 

 — , testing tlie ripening capacity of, 46. 

 Su^ar consumption, British, 131. 



— crop in Brazil, 1914 15, 188. 

 _ — , .lavan, 1915, 291. 



_ __ of Queensland. 1916. 188. 



— crops of the world, 1 9 1 3-14 to 1 9 1 5- 1 6, 

 332. 



— experiment stations, (Queensland, Ite- 

 port of Bureau, 1915, 98. 



— factory Antigua. 67. 



— — development in India, 104. 



— , increased con.suraption in England 



18.5. 

 — ■ industrv, British, 217. 



—," Indian 205, 323. 



— — , intlueni;e of the war on, 131. 

 — of Cuba, notes on, 323. 



Sugar, Manchester and colonial, 153 



— mills in the West Indies, American 

 views on, 42.5. 



— plantations, conservation of soil 

 moisture i", 159. 



[ — prices, high, reason for, 217. 



I — production in Cuba, 40, 331, 344 



— , substitute for, 333. 



— , use of in photography 140. 



— work.s, co-operative, in Queensland, 

 I 40. 



Sulphur on alkali soils, 414. 

 ! Sumatra rubber production in, 28. 

 Superintendent of Agriculture, Barbados, 



office stated to be vacant, 23. 

 Surinam, novel schemes of agricultural 



instruction in, 41. 

 Sweet potato in St. Lucia, 310. 



— — , transformations in the, 327. 

 Swietenia Mahagoni (mahogany). 123. 

 Swiss i-liocolate industry, 12. 

 Sword \>exa {C'lnai'a/ia gladintor), 181. 



Tagasaste (Ci/tigus pioliferus), 92. 



Tahite, coTumercia! vanilla in, 380. 

 ' Tamai'inds on the London market, 

 111, 191, 255 287. 



Tamarindus indica, 303. 

 ] Tank, dipping, an economical, 53. 



Tanks, ensilage, 169. 



Tea cultivation in India, 44. 



Teachers' salaries, 137 



Teak in Trinidad, 251 . 

 I Tecoma leucoxylon (white cedar), 123. 

 1 Tectona grandis (East fndiau teak), 251. 

 [Temperature, influence of on soils, 185. 



Tephrosia Candida, 155. 



— Hookeriana, var. amoena, 155. 



— purpurea, 155. 

 ' — Vogelii, 155. 



Theroboma Cacao, 3it3. 



Thespesia populnea (Gamboge or Seaside 



Mahoe), 182, 202, 2(13, 218, 267, 313, 



316, 319, 334, 347. 

 Thymol production in Florida, 233 



— — — the West Indies, 

 ! 233. 



Tick bird {Crotoplmja ani), 218, 219. 

 Tilth, measurement of, 232. 

 Timber, measurement of, 380. 

 ' — resources of Newfoundland, 108- 

 Tobacco ash, potash contained in. 252. 

 — , fermentation of, 101. 

 - fertilizer from indigo plant, 299. 



— -, influence of manures on composition 



and quality of, 236 



— leaf, grain of, 428. 



— , wrapper, growing under shade, 293. 

 Tonga, agricultuie and education in, 105. 

 Tortola, agriculture in, 59. 

 — , hurricane at, 355- 



— — of 191i>, relief of sutterers, 412. 

 — , items fjf loc.<l interest, 77, 164 



Tortola Onion (irowcrs' .Association, 



report on, 1915-16, 340. 

 Trade and agriculture of .Jamaica, 



1914-1.5, 253. 

 ; — — export.s of the British Solomon 

 Islands, 312. 



— — industries of Turks and (Jaicos 

 Islands, 191.5, 344. 



— of foreign countries and British pos- 

 j sessions, recent, 249. 



Philippine Islands, 1914-15, 99. 



Zanzibar, 1914, 137. 



Transformations in the sweet potato, 327. 



Transfusion of sap, 27. 



Transpiration in the .sugar-cane, l)utch 

 I observations on, 56. 



Trenching machinery, 204. 



Trinidad Agricultural Credit Societiea 

 ( )rdinance, 140, 172. 



— , cac.ao budding in, 1(.)0. 



— , crude petroleum oil, e.xport from. 46. 



— , exports of lime juice in 1915, 34S. 



— , financial position of, 287. 



— , fishing at. Ordinance to regulate, 421. 



— . (Joveniment co-operative lime juice 

 factory suggested for, 412. 



— , rice-planting operations in, 235. 



— , silkworm industry in, 204. 

 I — , teak in, 251. 

 1 Tripsacum dactyloides, 155, 

 I Tropical crops, experiments with in Cali- 

 j t'ornia, I 90 



I — fruit in the T'hilip[iines, imp'ovement 

 i of, 116, 



— sanitation, 105. 

 Tropics, botany in tlie, 404. 



Turks and Caicos Islands, shallow-water 

 resources of, 281. 



— — — - -, trade and indus- 

 tries of, 191.5, 344. 



Turmeric, use of in Porto Ricf), 364. 

 Turtles, West Indian, 357. 

 Tyrannus rostratus ('Pipiri,' or 'Hawk« 

 beater'), 218. 



u. 



T:ba cane, 199. 



Uganda, cotton industry in, ^127. 

 L^niformity of method, plea for greater, 

 248. 

 j 'United Empire', and Canadian-West-In- 

 dian political union. 409. 

 United Kingdom, imports of cedar into, 

 I 87. 

 ! United States, corn culture in, 412. 



— - Department of Agriculture, 

 411. 



— — , industrial research in, 239. 



— — pota^ih industrv, developments 

 of, 261. 



— — . i|uurantiDe, a,nd iniroduciioa 

 of new varieties of sugarcane into, 26.3. 



— — , utilizing palmetto in, 235, 



