432 



United States, cotton outlook 

 1917-18, 407. 



— — . eradication of 

 mouth disease in, 284- 



— — , ground nuts in, 227. 



— — . Parthenium argentatum 

 probable source of rubber in, 28. 



— — rubber supply, 89. 



— — . vocational education 

 2S5. 



University degree in horticulture. 249. 



forlWastage in manure, 259. I 



I Waste paper utilized for heating pur- 

 foot-and- poses, 39. 



I Waste wood, utilization of. 333, | 



Water-lilies ( J^icioria regta, var. triikeri) j 

 at St Vincent, 28. | 



I Watkins, F. H., 246, 258. \ 



Watts, >ir Francis, 51, 172, 182, 264. | 

 in, ! Waw-waw or Carib yam (Rajania | 

 I pleionura,) 253. ; 



! Weed, a noxious, 297. j 



Usies, industrial, of cotton- 

 T'tilization of waste wood. 



V. 



262. 

 33: 



Value of fibre.s, j)resent, 329. 



Vanilla heans. curing, 126. 



Vanillas, hybrid, efforts to raise in Porto 



Rio, 92 

 Varieties, commercial, of Alfalfa, 140. 

 Vegetable dyes of India, 45. 

 ■ — ivory-meal, feeding value of, 8. 



— seed, deterioration of in the tropics, 

 68. 



— seeds in the tropics, preservation 

 of, 198. 



Vegetable.s, home drying of, 343. 

 Velvet beans {Stivlobium %^.). 42. 



— — , white (Strz<ilol>iu»i Peeringi- 

 anuni). as a stock food, 316. 



Venus fly-trap {Didiuua muscipula). 329, 

 Veterinaty rt^port from ,'\ntigua, 411 

 Viability of kiln-dried corn, 59 

 Victoria regia, var trickeri (water- 

 lilies) at ^ t. Vincent, 28. 

 Vieques, Bora of, 300. 

 Virgin Gorda. molybdeniun ore in. 28. 

 Virgin Islands, deforestation in, 55. 



— , items of local interest, 52, 

 75, 117, 132, 164,229, 278,311. 



— -^ of the United States, 235. 

 Vitauiiues in bread, 214. 



Vilis vulpina, ill. 



Vocational education in the United 



!5t:ltCs, 28.''). 



Volcanic ilistricts. soil evolution in. 135. 



and 



w. 



hangings, 



Wall papers 



for, 188. 

 Walnut {Andira incrniis), 95 

 Wampie {Clansenia 7fii?npi), 



best colour 



282, 



■ — dangerous to stock, 20."i. 



Weeds in care fields, new method of 



killing, 394. 

 — , indigenous, production of rubber 



from, 344. , 



— , machine for eradicating by burning, | 



329. 1 



Weight of grain, new apparatus for 



testing, 9. i 



'VVe.st Africa', 1.50. \ 



West Africa, cotton crop of, 86. i 



West Indian agricultural departments, | 



growth of, 73. t 



— — agriculture, interest in, 73. 



— - A.ssociated (Chamber of Com- 1 

 merce. 185. 



'West Indian Bulletin', cotton and fibre I 



papers in, 153. 

 I— ~ — , Vol. \V1., No. 2, 



! 104. 



— — — , Vol. XVI. No. 3,! 

 ! 312 I 

 jWest Indian cotton on the Liverpool 



market, 3, 38, 54,86, 134, 150, 166, 

 j 214, 246, 262, 278, 326. I 



I — — food supply, 15, 62, 



— — .sour glass, 5. 



I — — source of tannin, 213. 

 I West Indies, a new grass in, 381. 



— ■ and Canada, trade betwei ii, 

 207. 



— — Mr. .Joseph Chamberlain, 

 18.5. 



— — Philadelphia, steamship 

 communication between, 222. 



— , coaling in, 265. 



— , cotton exports from, 102, 

 198, 294, 381. 



■ — , cultivation of potatoes in, 

 307. 



— , diminishing freight facilities, 

 1-59. 



West Indies, exportation of molasses from, 

 227. 



— — ■ e->; tension of sugar produc 

 tion in. 140. 



— — , foodstuffs commonly con- 

 sumed in, analyses of, 51. 



— — , gras.ses of, 365 



— — , growing Canavalias for food 

 in, 94. 



— — , poisonous fishes in, 187. 



— — , raising lettuce seed in 99 



— — , raw materials for paper 

 manufacture possibly obtainable from 

 34S. 



— — . scientific e.xploration in, 1 36. 



— — , ticks in, control of, 95. 

 Wheat cultivation in the tropics, 114. 



— flour, substitute for in Dominica 

 100. 



— , price of, 309. 



— supply. Hritish-grown, increa.sing 

 222. 



White cedar (Tecoma leucoxylon), 372. 



— velvet bean (Stizolobium Dceringi- 

 ammi) as a stock food, 316. 



cultivation in Montserrat, 12, 38. 

 Whitewash made with prickly pear, 204. 

 Wild cotton plant of Arizona (Thurbcria. 



tliespesiouies), 23 

 Windward Islands, importation of cotton. 



.seed prohibited. 214. 

 Wisley laboratory, 255. 

 Wolstenholme and Holland, Me-ssrs, 3,. 



38, 54, 86, 134. l.")0. 166, 214. 246, 



262. 278, 326. 

 Women and agriculture in Great Britain, 



56. 

 Wood boring ship worms, 316. 

 Wool spun from glass. 345. 

 Woolly pyrol (P/iaseohis tniingo), 42. 

 World's i)roduction of cacao, 363. 

 Wrightia tinctoria. 1;") 



Y. 



Year-book of the Ceylon Agrionltural 



Society, 1917-18. 121. 

 Yea.st bread, 299. 

 — , preparation of, 297. 



Ziziphus Joazeiro (juaj, 391. 

 — .iujiiba (jujube tree), 391. 



