446 



Urd bean {! ha-'eolus mungo), 101. 

 Use of soil moisture, 26. 



V. 



Vanilla, couuiiercial, in Tahite, 380. 

 — , curing. 4. 



— on the London market, -31. 

 Vanilla planifolia, 380. 



— tiarei ,380. 



Veaetable gi owing for Canadian markets. 



124. 

 Velvet beans as food for hogs, 201, 2f^'l. 

 Venezuela cultivation of sisal {Af/'ive 



sisalana) in, 236. 

 Vere, -'amaica, irrigation scheme, 172. 

 Veterinary report, Kritisb Guiana, 279. 



— woik in India, 191. 

 Veteveria /.izanoider', 82. 



Vinegar, Chinese, as a coagulant, 342. 

 Virgin Gorda, niolybdenuui ores in, 252. 

 Virgin Island?, agricultural activities in 

 the, 173. 



— — , Berkshire and Tamworth boars 

 in, 1."'8, 



— — , coconut cultivation in, 3.5- 



— — , cotton seed farm in, 35. 



• — — cyclonic disturbance near, 269. 



— — , — weather in, 294. 



. — — , experiment station work at, 

 267. 



— — , hurricane in, 34-5, 3-5.5. 



— — . items of local interest, 3, 133. 

 180, 24.5, 262, 277, 365, 421. 



— — , onion industry in, 35. 



— • — , plant distribution in, 35. 



— — , Plymouth I'ock fowls in, 159. 

 Vitamines, 121. 



Vitis caribaea, 52. 



Vitus vinifera, 358. 



Vomiting sickness, 265. 



Vulcanizability of plantation rubber, 415. 



Vulcanization of rubber without sulphur, 

 396 



w. 



Wale.1 agricultural returns in, 329. 



. — , crop yields in, 425. 



Waste land and logwood, 95. 



Water and humus, soil-balance of, 247. 



— , D minica, report on samples of, 235. 



— losses from plants and .soil, 94. 

 Watts, I >r. Francis, 79, 246. 



— , — , address to St. Vincent, 11. 



— , — , simple stills for e.ssential 



oils, 259. 

 Wax sugar-cane, 357. 

 Weather conditions in Antigua, 339. 



— __ _ St. Kitts, 339. 

 West Africa, cotton industry in, 86, 127. 

 West Indian arch;eology, 376. 



'West Indian Bulletin", \o\. XV, Xo. 3, 

 168. 



West Indian Cotton Conference (.see Cot- 

 ton Conference). 



— — — — and Manchester, 

 393. 



— -- — — in St. Kitts, 72. 

 West Indian cotton in Fiji, 85. 



— — — on the Liverjjool mar- 

 ket, 22, 38, 54, 70, 102, 167, 181. 215, 

 231, 249, 278, 326, 342, .367, 374, 406. 



— — exhibit at the Canadian 

 National Exhibition, 392. 



— — fisheries, poisonous species, 

 205. 



— — hurricane of September 1915, 

 damage occasioned by, 252. 



— — hurricanes, note- on, 277. 



— — sour arasses, botanical indentitv 

 of, 179. ^ 



— — turtles, 357. 



West Indies, a new drug plant for, 287. 



— — , agricultural credit in, 201. 



West Indies and the British Cotton Grow- 

 ing Association, 71, 86. 



— — , avocado cultivation in, 204. 



— — , ciitton export.- from, 70, 262, 

 390. 



fron, 



— growing in, 172. 

 — , exiiorts of Sea Island cotton 

 133. 

 — , heavy rainfall in. 387. 

 — , incense trees in, 407- 

 — , manuring sugar-cane in, 216. 

 — , new marine industries for, 185. 

 — , obeah cult in, 71 

 — , producti(in of thymol in, 233. 

 — , sugar mills in, American views 

 on. 425. 



— , the Ajowan plant {Carum, 

 copticum) in, 136- 

 'West Inilies in Canada", 72. 

 .'White cedar (Teconia leucoxylon), 123. 

 I Wild ochro (Malachra capitata), 202, 334, 

 Willow (Casuarina equiseHrolia), 123. 

 ; Wind-breaks, 28. 



Wolstenholme and Holland, Messrs. 22, 

 38. 54, 70, 102, 151, 167, 181, 215, 

 231, 249, 278, 326, 342. 367, .374, 406. 

 Wood, John, 199. 

 Working of steam boilers, 61- 

 Wrapper tobacco, growing under shade, 



293. 

 Wrightia tinctoria, 44. 



Y. 



Yeast-fodder, 37. 

 Ylana-ylang oil-standard", 60. 



Zanzibar, trade and agriculture of, 1914, 



1.37. 

 Zebu crosses in Italy, 1 90- 



