411 



105. 



Rubber in Venezuela, 105. 



— — West Africa, 57. 

 ■ — • planting, 211. 



— — and cacao cultivation, 

 ■ — — in Equador, 1 40. 



— Samoa, 251. 



— , sale of TobagP, .361. 



. — trees, roadside planting of, 39. 



— — , tool for incising, 51. 

 Rum in Trinidad, 213. 



— exports from British Guiana, 380. 



— — Martinique, 275. 

 — , manufacture in Martinique, 179. 



s. 



220. 

 193. 



Saccliarum ciliare in St. Kitt's, 87. 

 St. Kitt's, Arbor Day in, 381. 



— botanic station, 87. 

 cacao in, 260. 

 cotton cultivation in, 101, 102. 



— industry, 199, 281. 



— Traffic Ordinance, 85. 

 experiment station, cotton at, 

 fumigation of imported plants, 

 rubber in, 260. 



— cultivation in, 252. 

 seedling canes in, 2, 191. 

 stock wanted for, 237. 

 sugar industry, 281. 

 tobacco growing in, 319. 

 tropical diseases in, 237. 



8t. Kitt's-Nevis, agricultural 

 281. 



cotton exports from, 348. 



economic experiments in, 317. 



report on botanic station, etc., 269. 

 St. Lucia, agricultural education in, 191. 



— — experiment committee, 91,168. 



— — school, 1 10, 156, 222, 268, 337. 



— — Societ}', 121. 

 — , agriculture in, 91, 196, 337. 

 • — , banana cultivation in, 91. 

 — , Barbados banana suckers for, 91. 

 — , bee keeping in, 300, 315, 338. 



— botanic station, 87, 337. 



— cacao crop, 92. 



— , — experiment plots in, 338. 



■ — , Castilloa rubber from, 382. 



— , Chinese bananas in, 338. 



— , for, 121. 



— , cotton cultivation in, 91, 338. 



• — , Crown lands in, 281. 



— , fisheries of, 51. 



— , imported stock in, 171, 196. 



• — , mangos from, 300. 



— , mungoose in, 187. 



— , pine-apples growing in, 316. 



— , school gardens in, 338. 



St. Vincent, acreage in Sea Island cot- 

 ton, 348. 



• — , agricultural prospects in, 196. 



_ —.school, 110, 156, 167, 173, 

 222, 283. 



St. Vincent agricultural shows, 82. 

 anthrax in, 252. 



— arrowroot, 45, 327. 



— botanic station, distribution of plants 

 from, 220, 233. 



— — — , report on, 253. 



— Chinese bananas in, 348. 



— cotton crop, 247, 311. 



— — factory, 166, 268, 313, 326. 



— — Growers' Association, 345. 



— — , high price for, 294. 



— — industry, 166, 214, 374. 

 — , — Stealing Ordinance, 396. 

 — , destruction of mungoose in, 236. 

 — , exports of, 169, 200. 

 — , fisheries of, 167. 

 — , fumigation of imported plants in, 193. 



— land settlement scheme, 297, 303. 

 — , plant nurseries in, 165. 

 — , rainfall returns, 171, 220, 247. 

 — , rain gauges for, 396. 

 — , .sales of cotton from, 104, 136. 

 Saman tree, 327. 

 Samoa, cacao in, 203. 

 — , kola cultivation in, 212. 

 — , rubber planting in, 254. 

 Sands, W. N., Cotton industry in St. 



Vincent, 214. 

 — , St. Vincent land settlement scheme, 



303. 

 Sapium aucuparium, rubber from, 265, 



271. 

 Sarsaparilla in the London market, 29, 46, 



78, 111, 14.3, 175, 223, 2.5-5, 287, 319, 



351, 383. 

 progress in,jSchlich, W., Manual of Forestry, 123. 



School garden exhibition in Tobago, 332. 

 — Trinidad, 350. 



— gardens (see Education, agricultural). 



— — in .lamaica, 315. 

 — St. Lucia, 338. 



Schools' vegetable show in Trinidad, 220. 



Science in education, 220. 



Sea Island cotton crop, 332, 348. 



— , consumption of, in L^.S., 



322. 



322. 



exports from West Indies, 

 farmers and sale of cotton 



seed, 140. 



— — — in England, 374. 



— — South Carolina, 321. 



— — AVest Indie,s, 321. 



— — — , prospects of, 358. 



— — — , ratooning, 321. 



— — crop report, 332. 



— moss, utilization of, 300. 

 Seaweed, as manure, 3. 

 Seedling canes in Barbados, 146. 

 Seeds, germination of vegetable, 31C. 

 Senegal, agriculture in, 73. 

 Seychelles, subsidiary industries in. 

 Shaddocks, 44, 357. 

 Shade plants, 120. 

 Sheep, hairy or woolless, 265. 



— manure at Barbados, 267. 



— — , composition of, 267. 



Sheep nasal fly, 170. 



Shepherd, ¥. R., ratooning cotton, 231. 

 sugar-cane seedlings in St. Kitt's, 194. 

 Shipping cotton, 273. 

 Short, Captain, Castilloa rubber in To- 

 bago, 265. 

 Sicilj', citrus industry in, 228. 

 Sisal hemp cultivation, 250, 318, 387. 



— from the Caicos Islands, 154. 



— in British Guiana, 250. 



— — Caicos Islands, 318, 363. 

 Hawaii, 190. 



— — Mexico, 174. 

 Queensland, 250. 



— — Tobago, 220. 



— — United States, 237. 

 industry of Caicos Islands, 313. 



Smith, G. Whitfield, agriculture in Car- 



riacou, 121. 



, Cottagers' show in Carriacou, 147. 

 Smith, H. Hamel, Tropical Life, 302. 

 — , W. E., and Colonial Exhibition, 252. 

 Soil inoculation, 41, 89, 229. 



— for alfalfa, 311, 374. 

 Sorghums, nomenclature of, 329. 

 Sorrel, white, 59. 

 Souari nut, 317. 



nuts in the London market, 319. 

 South Carolina, Sea Island cotton in, 321. 

 Southern Nigeria, cotton growing in, 364. 

 Spice industry in Grenada, 227. 

 Spices in Canada, 159, 191, 239, 271, 

 287, 3.35, 367. 



— New York, 175. 

 Spines on plants, meaning of, 165. 

 Sprayers for insecticides, 186, 231, 330. 

 Spraying, importance of, 35. 

 Stack ensilage, 221. 

 Stancliffe, R., Dominica agricultural 



school, 140. 

 Steel articles, preservative for, 382. 

 Sterilization of fruit, 52. 

 Stock at Montserrat, 172, 236. 



— St. Lucia, 196. 

 farm in Tobago, 117 

 for Antigua, 8. 

 imported in St. Lucia, 171. 

 milch cows, 19. 

 sale in Tobago, 284. 

 small settlers' cows, 19. 

 wanted for St. Kitt's, 237. 



Stock-breeders' As.sociation in Grenada, 



124. 

 Stockdale, F. A., appointment as ilycolo- 



gist, 213, 270. 

 Straits Settlements, agriculture in, 359. 



— , exhibition of tropical fruits, 364. 

 Strawberry culture in Cuba, 357. 

 Success knapsack .sjjrayer, 330. 

 Sugar-cane, artificial cross-fertilization in 



Barbados, 147. 

 45. — , chemical selection of, 147. 

 — , cultivation in Cuba, 195. 

 — , — — Jamaica, 305. 



— , Mexico, 323. 



— , difl'nsion process of extracting sugar 



from, 92. 



