iV, 



INDEX. 



, Ahacaxi ', or pine-apples, 1 19, 



Abnormality of the Jamaica hurricane 

 of 1917, 405, 



Aborigines of America, agriculture 

 among, 409, 



Absorption and loss of nitrogen in con- 

 nexion with sugar estates, 19. 



Acacia arabica, 313. 



— farnesiana (' Cassie ' ), 39, 



' Accelerants ' for chemical reactions, 76, 

 Acrocomia media (Corozo palm), 7. 

 Addresses on agriculture in St, Kitts, 



■264, 

 Adenanthera pavonina Circa.ssian bead 



tree), 95, 174. 

 Adulterated bread, 101, 

 Adulteration of milk in the Leeward 



Islands, 25. 

 Aiivances upon agricultural produce, 



•213, ■2^H. 

 Aeroplane cloths, 278, 

 ^Eta palm {Mauritiajlejuosii), 187. 

 Africa, British, cattle reserve in, 101. 

 African mahogany (Khaya xene>ialensis), 



175. 

 After-ripening of sugar-cane, l'?;"). 

 Age determination of cattle in different 



countries, 133. 



— in mules, examination of, 99. 

 Agricultural and Commercial Society, 



Antigua, 264, 

 _ — — — , St 



Lucia, 8, 



— industrial exhibition, Barbados, 408. 

 _ — in Trinidad, 248. 



— banks m Trinidad, 140, 



— colleges for the tropics, 45, 392. 



— commission in British Honduras, 

 248, 271, 



— conditions in Barbados, 53. 

 _ — — Porto Rico, 277, 



— credit in Demerara, 167. 



— — — the British West Indies, 

 38, 



_ — — Trinidad, 167, 



— — societies in St. Lucia, 279. 

 _ — , St. Vincent, 214. 



— — society, Diego Martin, 45. 



— Department, Grenada, work of, 77. 



— — of Nigeria, 102. 



— — , St. Vincent, note on, 124. 

 — , Departments, West Indian, growth 



of, 73. 



Year-book of. 



190. 



Agricultural development in India, 347 



— education and research, 261. 



— exports from Trinidad, 1915, 31. 



— geology, new text-book on, 12. 



— instruction in Antigua, 312. 



— — — elementary schools, 

 Trinidad, 44, 232. 



— — work in Grenada, 77, 125. 

 ' Agricultural News ', index to Volume 



XV, 88. 

 Agricultural produce, advances upon, 

 213, 248. 



— progress iu Porto Rico, 211. 



— reconstruction in England, 205. 



— returns for England and Wales, 

 1917, 325. 



— societies, co-operative, in Great 

 Britain, 27. 



— society, Ceylon, 

 1917-18, 121. 



— — , Turks Islands, 216. 



— tractors, trial of in England, 



— work in Nevis, 35. 

 Agriculture among the aborigines of 



America, 409. 

 -- and science, 185. 



— — the war, 222. 

 bees in relation to, 219. 

 biological studies applied to, 366. 

 Briti.-^h, and foreign islands, 262. 

 high price of, 201. 

 home practice in, 9. 



in Barbados, 212, 239, 244, 270, 

 286, 299, 315, 359, 375, 389, 405. 



— British Guiana, 244. 



— Nigeria, 239. 



— Queensland, 135, 



— St, Kitts, addresses on, 264, 



— the Belgian Congo, 87. 



— Tortola, state of, 47. 

 stories in, 120 

 tractors iu, 270. 

 tropical, careers in, 281. 

 value of dynamite in, 105. 

 West Indian, interest in, 73. 



Ajowan {Varum coplinom), 114. 

 372. 



— ( — — ), successful 

 growth in the West Indies, 44. 



— seed grown in the Seychelles, 300, 

 Albizzia Lebbek, 174. 



— procera, 174. 



— stipulata, 174. 

 Alcohol as a substitute for petrol, 325. 

 — , industrial, 247. 

 Aleurites Fordii (Tung or China wood- 

 oil plant), 19, 174. 



— moluccana (kukuri), 19, 



361, 



I Alfalfa, commercial varieties of,U40. 

 Alkaloid extractions from leaves of PUo- 



carpus laceviosns, 43, 

 Amarantus paniculatus (bleeding hearts), 



349. 



— spinosus (prickly caterpillar), 297. 



— spp, (pig weed), 330, 



— viridis (green callalu), 349. 

 America, agriculture among aborigines 



of, 409. 



— , chemical work in, 37, 

 American long-staple cotton, growing by 



irrigation, 124, 

 Amphilophis intf-rmedius, var, acidula, 5. 

 Anacardiuni oci identale (cashew nut), 



365. 

 Analyses of foodstuffs commonly con- 



.sumed in tbe West Indies, 51, 

 Andira inermis (Walnut) 95, 

 Andropogon decipiens, 5 



— intermedins, var, decipiens, 5. 



— — , — pabularis, 5. 



— pertusus (Barbados sour grass), 5, 

 381, 



— punciatu,", 5, 



— sorghum (Kafir), protein com- 

 pounds in, 37, 



Animals, nature of light production in, 

 23, 



— of new Caledonia, 131. 

 — , sand colic in, 270. 



— used for food, and foodstuflfs, pro- 

 hibited exportation from St. Lacia, 

 236, 



Annatto dye, 351, 



— in Porto Rico, 103. 



— seed on the London market, 15, 95, 

 159, 191. 223, 255, 287. 



Anona reticulata (custard apple), 119. 



— salzmanni ( ' Araticum ' ), 119. 



— squamosa (' Fruta de conde ' ), 

 119, 



Annual reports of the Society of Chemi- 

 cal Industry, 281. 



Anthrax, history, symptoms, and treat, 

 ment of, 284. 



Anti mosquito measures in Antigua, 

 suggestion of, 189. 



Antigua, agricultural instruction in, 

 312. 



— and 8t. Kitts central factories, 

 notes on, 83, 



— , attempts to grow onions out of 

 season in, 109. 



— central sugar factory, 197. 



— Cotton Growers' Association, 230. 

 — , education and instruction in, 



117. 



