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INDEX. 



Absorption by roots, 245. 

 Achras Sapota, 375. 

 Adsorption by starches, 281. 

 Afforestation in Guadeloupe, 245. 

 Agar-agar, 120. 

 Agave cantala, 40.3. 



Agricultural and Commercial Society, 

 Antigua, 395. 



— — — — , St. Kitts, 309. 



— — Industrial Show, St. Kitts, 107. 

 ■ — banks, literature of, 333. 



■ — chemistry, work on, 156. 



■ — College, Portij Rico University, 237. 



— Conference, 1912. 49, 65, 81. 



— — picture, 168. 



— examinations, 29, 45, 61, 365, 397. 



— — , results, 13, 381, 413. 



— investigation and agriculturists, 19. 



— possibilities in Honduras, 40. 



— — of Panama Canal Zone, 203. 



— pupil.-;, Dominica, 41, 59. 



— science, Dominica, 217. 



— — , research scholarships in, 28. 



— Show, Montserrat, 1912, 139. 



— teaching in Grenada, 89, 364, 408. 

 Agriculture and the Iji'itish Association, 



1912, 269. 

 ■ — , early, in Bahamas, 85. 

 . — in Bolivia, 43, 



Fiji, 391. 



Gold Coast Northern Territories, 



343. 



Porto Rico, 303. 



St. Vincent, 239, 392. 



Southern Nigeria, 1910, 47. 



Straits Settlements, 1910, 157. 



Trinidad, 151. 



— , Reading Cour.'^es and Examinations 



in Practical, 193, 401. 

 — , Third International Congre.ss of 



Tropical, 43. 

 Agriculturists and agricultural investiga- 

 tion, 19. 

 Albizzia lophantha, 136. 

 Alfonse mango, 52. 

 Alga on lime leaves, 270 

 All Ceylon Exhibition, •J8. 

 Amani, German Agricultural Institute 



at, 197. 

 Ammonia in rare rain, 412. 

 Aninionification in soils, 131. 

 Ammonium salts, utilization by plants, 



57. 

 Andropogf>n schoeuanthus, oil from, 293. 

 Anglo-Egjptian Sudan, cotton-growing 



in, 294. 

 Animal production and electricity, 73. 

 Animals, source of food for, 313. 



Anisercus affinis, controlling coco-nut 



scale, 218. 

 Anona muricata, 379. 

 Anopheles sp. in salt v?ater, 220. 

 Anthrax, disappearance from St. Vincent, 



207, 239. 



— (Ordinance, St. Vincent, 153. 



— serum for human anthrax, 13. 

 Antigua at the Canadian National 



Exhibition, 314. 



— Agricultural and Commercial Society, 



395. 

 — , coco-nut growing in, 196 

 — , collection of plants for^ 348. 

 — , cotton exports from, 172. 

 — , — growing in, 69. 

 — , Eucalyptus in, 92. 



— Handbook of General Information, 

 40 



— , little-known district in, 375. 



— , plant distribution in, 60, 300, 348, 



380, 412. 

 — , rainfall of, 1911, 104. 

 — , Report on Botanic Station, 69. 

 — , seedling canes in, 69. 



— sugar factory, 163. 

 Apparatus for drying cotton, 403. 

 Apterite, trial of, 317. 



Argentina, cotton-growing in, 172, 342. 

 — , sugar crop of, 76. 

 - — , — in, 365. 

 — , wool output of, 156. 

 Armstrong, Dr. E. F., 274. 

 Armstrong, Professor H. E., 274. 

 Aromatic grass oils, 4. 

 , Arorate, «<< Sideroxylon crystobotryum. 

 Arrowroot Association, St. Vincent, 89. 



— imports into the United Kingdom, 

 300. 



— in St. Vincent, 76, 239. 



— on the London market, 79, 319, 

 383. 



— Ordinance, St. Vincent, 207, 332. 



— worm, 186. 



Arsenic in dipping fluids, changes in, 



2.5, 57. 

 Artificial rubber, 284. 

 Asehersonia turbinata, 270, 415. 

 Asclepias curassavica and stock- poisoning, 

 I 268. 



— semilunata, see Gomphocarpus semi- 

 lunatus. 



Ashanti, cacao in, 396. ; 



Assam, cotton in, 332. 



Atmosphere, nitrogen from, 279. 



Atractylis gummifera, 02. 



Atriplex nummularia, 56. l^ iij? 



— semibaccata, 56, — '[TTr 

 Auchinleck, G. G , 362. 



Australia, casein manufacture in, 58. 

 Australian fruit industries, 159. 



— salt biLshes as stock food, 56. 



Automatic plough, 408. 

 Avocado, budding of, 357. 

 Azores, exports from, 252. 

 Azotobacter, activity in different condi- 



tion.s, 307. 

 — chroococcum, 169. 

 Azotogen, 76. 



B 



Bacillus mycoides and ammonification, 

 131. 



— prodigiosus on rubber, 62. 



— subtilis and ammonification, 131. 



— — and radioactive substances, 363. 

 Bacteria in the soil, 109, 113. 

 Bacteriological work in Jamaica, 95. 

 Bahamas, early agriculture in, 85. 

 Baikiaea insignis, 185. 



— minor, 185 



Bajra, see Pennisetum typhoideum. 

 Balanites sp., oil from, 77. 

 Balata from Northern Nigeria, 299. 

 Ballon, H.A., 135, 219, 312, 339, 356, 



399, 403. 

 Balls, 405, 



Bambarra ground nut as feed, 146. 

 Bamboo, male, 311. 



— leaves, uses for, 103. 



— palm, see Raphia vinifera. 

 Bamboos, paper-making from, 393. 

 Rambusa arundinacea, ,«'« Bambusa 



macroculmis. 



— macroculmis, 103. 



— spinosa, 103. 



Banana exports from Canary Islands, 204. 



— — from Trinidad, 69. 



— weevil borer, 170, 

 Bananas in Costa Rica, 4, 396. 



— — Jamaica, 327. 



— , Panama disease of, 126, 142. 



Bancroft, C. K., 17, 62, 411. 



Barbados, census of, 28 



— , cotton area in, 92. 



— , — exports from, 77. 



— , — leaf-blister mite in, 106. 



— , exports from, 217. 



— Goat Society, 44, 412. 



— , plant importation regulations, 412. 

 — , sugar exports from, 77. 

 — , trade and agriculture of, 1910^11, 77. 

 Barbuda bean, see Phxseolus lanatus, 

 — , coconut growing in, 196, 

 Barosma spp., 362. 

 Masic .slag as an insecticide, 410. 

 Bay oil, supply of, 217, 

 Beans, some well known, 347. 

 Beet growing in South Australia, 60. 

 Belgium, goat improvement associations 

 in, 175. 



