420 



Citrus trees, top-working old, 327. 

 ClauseDJa wampi (Wampie), 282. 

 Cleome pungens, 349. 



— pentaphylla, 349. 



Climatic conditions, influence of, on 



yields of cotton, 26S. 

 Clitoria cajanifolia, 17.5. 

 aouds, 221. 



Coaling in the West Indies, 265. 

 f'occyzus minor nesiotes (mangrove 



cuckoo), 2-50. 

 Cockroaches, control measure against 



252. 

 — , useful methods for destruction of, 



23C). 

 Cockscomb (Celosia cristata), 349. 

 Cocode-mer or coco-de-maldives (Lodoi- 



cea maldivica), 7. 

 Coco-nut butter, 204. 



— — , how to keep firm, 34-5. 



— — , making of, 260, 317. 

 ■ — cultivation in Madras, 316. 



— — — St, Vincent, 22. 



— industry in the East Africa Pro- 

 tectorate, 18s. 



— palm, origin and dispersal of, 396. 



— selection in the Seychelles, 163. 

 Coco nuts, "manuring of, 83. 



■ — , pearls in, i 20. 



Coffea robusta, 123. 341. 



— -- in St. Lucia, 55, 263. 

 Coffee cultivation, extension of in Brit- 

 ish Guiana, 236. 



— in Uganda, 123. 



— , shield-budding of, 205. 



Coix Lachrynia Jobi (Job's Tears), as a 



food- plant, 82 

 Collen,s, A. E., 127. 

 Colocasia anlicjuorum, var esculenta 



(da,sheen), 253, 398. 

 Colonial report on Barbados, 212. 

 Couiposition of Indian rices, 108. 

 Compre.ssfd grain, 407. 

 Conditions in the Belgian Congo, 87. 

 Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies 



313. 

 Control of ticks in the West Indies 95, 

 Co operation among planters, 222. 

 Co-operative agricultural societies in 



Great Britain, 27. 

 Copaifera olBcinalis, 174. 

 Copper sulphate, effects of upon seeds, 



156. 

 Corchorus silii|Uosus, 349. 

 Cordia cylindrnstachya (black sage), 300. 



— internipta, 154. 

 Corn, breeding of, 277. 



— , kiln dried, viability of, 59, 



— meal, storing in St. Vincent, 100. 



— mill, propo.sed erection of in St 

 Croix, 262. 



— j)Utit, practical study of, 156. 

 Corn Production Bill, 360. 



— , selection of for seed, 406. 

 Cornzo palm (Acrocomio vt^dia), 7. 

 01o4rection,344. 



Correlative chaarcters of the rice plant, 



213. 

 Cotton, American long-staple, growing 



by irrigation, 124. 



— and fibre papers in the ' West 

 ! Indian Bulletin', 153. 



— area in Montserrat in 1916-17, 

 214. 



— , bats as guardians of, 344. 



boll weevil, recent .spread of, 23. 

 — , budded, resistance of to disease, 

 .57. 



— crop of Nyasaiand, 86. 



— — — Uganda, 86. 



— West Africa, 86. 



— cultivation in Queensland, 316. 



— — within the Empire, 300. 



— exports from the West Indies, 102, 

 198, 294, 381. 



— , extension of industry in Australia, 



156. 

 — , ginned, output of in Egypt, 236. 



— Growers' Association, Antigua, 230. 



— growing in the British Empire, 1 83. 

 — , India's supply of, 1 02. 



— , industrial uses of, 262. 



— industry in the Caicos Islands, 220. 



— in St. Vincent, acreage under, 407. 



— - Uganda, 123. 



— — United States, outlook for 1917- 

 18 407. 



— , loug-staple in 1915-16, 118 



— manufacture, value of imports into 

 India in 1915 16, 220. 



— production in California, 392, 



— — — China, 364. 



— — — St. I'incent, bio- 

 logical factors attecting 319 



— products, St. Vincent, additional 

 duties on, 220. 



— prospects, Sea Island, 134. 



— , research work in connexion with, 



408. 

 — , Sea Island, prohibition of exports 



of, 327. 



— seed, importation into the Wind- ' 

 ward I.>,lands prohibited, 214. I 



— spun from glass, 345. i 



— stainer, destruction of food-plants 

 of, in St. Vincent, 30. 79, 92. , 



— , West Indian, sale of by British 

 Cotton Growing Association, 54. 



— , yields governed by climatic con- 1 

 dition, 268. 



Cotton-seed meal as human food, 1 1. 



Cowpeas, cultivation in ^Inntserrat, 38. 



Cow tree (BroMiawn 'ialactod^)idrnn) 

 79. 



Credit Societies in Knaland, 60. 



Crop estiiiKiles in certain countries, 104. 



— insurauct, iiiiguliou a.'^. 2G5. 



— yield, influence of limestone on, 345 

 Crotolaria jiincea (.Sunn h'einp), IS, 297 



Mus.saii, 175. 

 Crotophaga ani (blackbird), 309. , 



Cuba, pig raising in, 9. 



antiquoruni, var. 



Cuba, sugar situation in, 115. 

 Cuban sugar factory, a modern, 339. 

 Cultivation in St. Kitts, extension of, 

 296. 



— of vegetables in St. Lucia, 87. 

 ' Curare ' or Gurali " poison, 152. 

 Curcuma longa (turmeric), 412. 

 Curing vanilla beans, 126. 



Custard apple [Anona reticulata), 1 1 9. 

 Cycas circinalis (false sago palm), 93, 



308. 

 Cynodon dactylon (devil's grass), 381. 

 tJyperus rotundus (Japanese nut grass), 



control of, 412. 

 - — spp., 348. 



Cyprus, poisonous fish in streams and 

 rivers of, 28. 



D 

 Dairy wash, 188. 

 Dalbergia sisso, 338. 

 l)asheen (Colocasia 

 j esculenta), 253. 

 : Daeheens, uses of, 398. 

 I Date culture in California. 291. 



— palm ( PhiMnLr dactylifera), 

 Egypt, 139. 



I )atura Metel, 303. 



— — in Montserrat, 263. 

 I — spp., 414. 



iJeforestation in the Virgin Islands, 

 Demerara, agricultural credit in, 167. 

 — , rice exportation prohibited from, 

 121. 



- flour in, 101. 

 Department news, 6, 51, 79 

 178, 197. 210, 229, 246. 

 33.5, 357, 395 

 Department of .\griculture, Grenada, 



155. 

 Department publications, 40. 

 Departmental Reports : — 



-Vntigua : Report on the Agricultural 



Department, 19 I 5-16, 93. 

 liarbados : Report on sugar-cane Ex- 

 periments for the season 1915 17, 

 373. 

 Dominica : liepoit on the Agricultural 



Department, 1916 17, 2.53. 

 Grenada : Report on the Agricultural 



Department, 1916- 17, 343. 

 •Jamaica : Report on the Department 



of Agriculture, 1916-17, 310. 

 St Kitts- Nevis : Report on the Agri- 

 cultural Department, 191.5-16, 39: 

 1916-17, 372. 

 St. Lucia : Report on the Agricul- 

 tural Department, 1916-17, 301. 

 St. Vincent : Report on tlie Agricul- 

 tural Depatlnient, 1916 17, 397. 

 Sugar cane i'^xperiments in the Lee 

 ward Island.s, 1915 16, 141. 

 Dciiiiatophilis penetrans, 249. 

 Desiccation, progressive, in S<Duth 



.Vfrica, 393. 

 1 )esirablc fruit trees, 390. 

 Devil's grass (Cynodon dactylon)^ 381. 



127, 

 258, 



55. 



155, 

 317. 



