424 



Lime juice investigation, 340. 



— — , machinery for separating, 372. 



— — on the London market, 15, 47, 

 79, 95, 143, 175, 239, 255, 287, 319, 

 351. 



Lime oil on the London market, 15, 47, 

 79, 95, 175, 239, 383. 



— plants, demand in Dominica, 172. 



— products, prices in Italy, 1911-12, 

 412. 



Lime-magnesia, ratio, effect on nitrifying 



bacteria, fiO. 

 Limes from St. Lucia, 292. 

 Linseed cake, hydrocyanic acid in, 121. 

 Litchi in Dominica, 325. 

 — , propagation of, 165. 

 Loan banks for British Guiana, 76. 

 Lock, Dr. E. H., 185. 

 Lodge, Sir Oliver, 43. 

 Lodoioea sechellarum, 324. 

 Lombiro rubber, 315. 

 Lonchocarpus violaceus, 1. 

 London purple poisoning, treatment for, 



361. 

 Loofahs, preparation of, 84. 

 Lufia acutangula, 84. 



— aegyptiaca, 84. 



Lyon bean, see Stizolobium niveum. 



M. 



Macara, Sir Charles, 343. 

 Mace on the London market, 15, 47, 79, 

 9.5, 14.3, 239, 2.5.5, 287,319, 351, 383. 

 Machine for felling trees, 105. 

 - — — Manila hemp, 124. 



— — picking cotton, 89. 

 Machinery for cleaning broom corn, 121. 



— ■— extracting citrus essential oils, 

 156, 184. 



— ■ — threshing ground nuts, 41. 

 Machines for gathering stones, 72. 



— — rubber crcping and sheeting, 108, 

 188. 



McKinlay &. Co , Messrs., 60. 



McMullen, O. W., 83. 



McMullcn process, 67, 83, 195, 303. 



Macrostola lutea and pollination, 234. 



Madeira sugar crop, 1910, 284. 



Madura shade tree, see Gliricidia maeu- 

 lata. 



Magnesia and lime in soils, 32cS. 



Magnesium carbonate, effect on nitrify- 

 ing bacteria, 60. 



Maize, exports from South Africa, 108. 



— , manufacture of sugar from, 115. 



Malay States, rubber exports from, 236. 



Malaya, Hevea culture in, 76. 



Malpighia glalira, 94. 



Malting power of heated grains, 188. 



Manchester fruit market, 68. 



Manchuria, Sesaniuni exports from, 92. 



— , .soy bean in, 12. 



Manchurian soy bean trade, and plague, 

 213. 



Manganese, action on the soil, 51. 



— soils and pineapple growing, 276. 



Mango, inarching of, 164. 



— juice, Indian, 327. 



— , shield budding for, 36. 



Mango shield scale fungus, Hypochrella 



oxy.spora, 415. 

 Mango, the Pairi, 116. 

 Mangoes, good varieties of, ISO. 

 — , new, for the West Indies, 180. 

 Mangosteen in Dominica, 68. 

 — , inarching of, 164. 

 — , propagation by nurse plants, 165. 

 Mangrove Ijark, exploitation of, 399. 

 Manitoba rubber, imports into U. K., 76. 

 Manihot Cilaziovii, 341. 



— — latex, extraction of, 301. 

 Manila hemp, machine for, 124. 

 Manure, disinfection of, 136. 



— , farmyard, and nitrogen- fixing bac- 

 teria, 140. 

 Manures and nitrification, 344. 

 — , maximum quantities for plants, 34. 

 Manuring and meat production, 283. 



— — milk production, 313. 

 Margaropus annulatus, cattle tick, 314. 



— australis, cattle tick, 314. 



Market Reports, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 

 112, 128, 144, 160, 176, 192, 208, 

 224, 240, 256, 272, 288, 304, 320, 

 336, 352, 368, 384, 400, 416. 



Martinique, agriculture and trade of, 

 1909, 104. 



— , lime cultivation in, 196. 



— , — industry in, 284. 



— , rublier-planting in, 155 



Mascarenhasia rubber, 1 39. 



Massee, G., 190. 



Mauritius, factory control in, 237. 



— , new sugar-cane pest in, 314. 



— , Sea Island cotton in, 287. 



— , sugar production in, 300. 



Maxwell-Lefroy, H., 170. 



Meat production and manuring, 283. 



Medlar-bay, see Ocotea pretiosa 



Megass, experiments in drying, 131. 



Melissodes bimaculata, visiting cotton, 

 103. 



Mespilodaphne pretiosa, see Ocotea pre- 

 tiosa. 



Meston plough, 185. 



Metarrhizium anisopliae, green nuiscar- 

 dine fungus of froghoppers, 62, 415. 



Metchnikoti' bacillus. Bacillus Inilgaricus, 

 331. 



Metroxylon Sagu, 85. 



Mexican rubber industry, 91. 



Mexico, coffee crop of, 1 24. 



— , exports from, 1909-10, 332. 



— , Palay rubber in, 315. 



M-fucuta seed, 395. 



Mica as a source of plant food, 412. 



Milk, certification of, 21. 



— , methods for obtaining clean, 21. 



— production and manuring, 313. 



— yield in cattle, inheritance of, 413. 



— — of cows, effect of water on, 124. 

 Molasses and milk production, 291. 



— as food for stock, 171, 211. 



— exports from Barbados, 108. 



Molasses from Brazil, 108. 



— imports into Holland, 115. 



— , influence on soil fertility, 179. 

 Montserrat Agricultural Show-, 5. 

 — , report on Botanic Station, etc , 411. 

 — , distribution of plants in, 92. 

 — , cotton exports from, 108, 140. 

 — , — in, 12. 



— , plants newly introduced into, 411. 

 Moore, .1. C, 60, 217, 245, 324, 388. 

 Moringa pterygosperma, 395. 

 Morris, Sir Daniel, oS, 71, 108. 

 Mosquito larvae in drinking water, 105. 

 Mosquitoes in Egypt, 220 

 Motor traction in agriculture, 159. 

 Mutation, results of, 4. 

 Mycology in relation to administration, 

 161. 



N. 



Natal, pine-apple exportation from, 33fc'. 



— , sugar production in, 284. 



Nature teaching in British Guiana, 264. 



— — — the Leeward Islands, 233. 

 'Nature Teaching', new edition of, 152. 

 Navel-ill or joint-ill, 219. 



Nevis, cotton-growing in, 268. 



— , plant distribution in, 76. 



New industries, development of, in the 



West Indies, 71. 

 New Market (Arrowroot) Ordinance, St. 



Vincent, 9. 

 New South Wales, sugar production in, 



79. 

 NicholLs, Dr. H. A. A, 7, 180. 

 Niger seed, Guizotia oleifera, 395. 

 Nigeria, Northern, cotton in, 8fi. 

 Nitrate of lime and calcium cyananiide, 



57, 168, 232, 328, 344. 



— — — , properties of, 313. 

 Nitrate of soda, effect on flow of latex, 



265. 

 Nitrates in rain and snow, 412. 

 Nitrification and manures, 344. 

 Nitrites, absorption by plants, 188. 

 Nitrogen, assimilation by rice, 369. 



— compounds in the soil, changes in, 

 217. 



— fixation and chalk. 217. 

 — , loss and gain in soils, 241.'. 

 Nitrogen-fixing bacteria a.nl farmyard 



manure, 140. 



— organisms and manures, 204. 



— — , mineral food for, 408. 

 Non-proteids, use by animals, 281. 

 Northern Nigeria, production in, 1909, 



235. 



— — , sesame from, 395. 

 Nunan, .1. J., 124. 



Nurse plants for propagation, 165. 

 Nutmeg tree, ' male', fruiting of, 324, 



388. 

 Nutmegs on the London market, 15, 47, 



79, 95, 143, 175, 239, 2.55, 287, 319, 



351, 383. 

 Nyasaland cotton in, 86, 326. 

 — , report on agriculture in, 389. 



