421 



Diego Martin Agricultural Credit 



Society, io. 

 Dionaea muscipula (Venus fly-trap), 329. 

 Dipterocarpus tuberculatus (the eng 



tree), 143. 

 Divi-divi, manufacture of tanning ex 



tract fiom, 3G4. 

 Divining rod in Queensland, 13.5. 

 Dolichos Hoseii, 174, 175. 



— lablab (bonavist), 3S0. 



— macrocarpa, 380. 



Dominica, e.xports in 1916, 184, 236. 



— gardens, horticultural training at, 

 181, 



— , green lime trade of, 73, 171,376. 



■ — . growing asparagus in, S8. 



— , hurricane losses, 9 1 . 



— , items of local interest. 20, 52, 84, 



116,164, 180, 262, 263, 303, 311, 



324, 374, 404. 

 — , pickled limes exported from, 364. 

 — , plant importations, 174. 

 — ■ rainfall, 191('), 56. 

 — , substitute for wheat tiour in, 100. 

 — -^ use of manure in, 47. 

 Drought, and food supplies in St. 



Lucia. 201. 

 Ducks, Indian runner, 235. 

 Dunlop, W.i;., 246, 395. 

 Dyes, vegetable, of India, 45. 

 Dyewood factory in Jamaiai, 396. 

 Dynamite, value of in agriculture, 105. 

 Dysdercus delauneyi (cotton staiuer) 



in St. Vincent, observations on, 308. 



E. 



East Africa, grafted mangoes in, 411. 



East Afrira Protectorate, coco-nut in- 

 dustry in. 188. 



East Indian immigration, 68. 



East Indians, settlement scheme for, 

 38S. 



' Easter Hlosaom ' (H'cmiJaca Lam- 

 arckii), 79. 



Economic feeding of pigs, 315. 



— uses of sea-weeds, 94. 

 Economies, new, 296. 



Economy in food consumption, 265. j 

 Ecuador, cacao industry in, 172. 

 Eddoes, ases of, "98. 

 Editorials ■ — 



Binomial grouping of tropical crops, 



145. 

 Efforts in aid of pea.sant agriculture, 



97. 

 Electrical and other new methods of 



increasing plant growth, 177. 

 Flies, 241. 



Grading and packing fruit, 225. 

 Green-manuring problems. 17. 

 Growth of the smaller West Indian 



Departments of Agriculture. 65. 

 Human food requirements, 49. 

 Infertility under trees, -^'37. 

 Local cultivation of food crops, 289. 



Editorials (Concluded): — 



Local production of food supplies, 1. 

 Making and storing farm-yard manure, 



321. 

 New food-plants for the West Indies, 



81. 

 liesistance to disease, 129. 

 Scientific and industrial research, 257. 

 Stimulation of interest in education, 



353, 369, 385, 401. 

 The Dominions Royal Commission, 



209. 

 The principles of education, 161. 

 The scientific management of orchard 



soils, 33. 

 The value of scientific research, 273. 

 Training in plant pathology, 305. 

 Waste land and wasted land, ll'>. 

 Education, agricultural, and re.search, 

 261. 



— and instruction in Antigua, 117. 



— in Grenada, 232. 



— , juvenile, and employment, 249. 

 - — , primary and secondary, in British 



Guiana, 105. 

 — , vocational, in the United State.s, 



285. 

 Efforts to produce local foodstuffs, 296. 

 Egg-plants, packing of, 181. 

 Egypt, date palm {P/ioenix i/iK/v/ifini) 



in, 139. 

 — , output of ginned cotton in, 23(>. 

 ^, sisal cultivaticn in, possibilities 



for, 76. 

 • — , transportation of bay .seed to, 



197. 

 Egyptian clover or berseem, 152, 153. 

 Electro-horticulture, 172. 

 Elementary education in Barbados in 



1915, report on, 43. 

 Elephant grass or Napier's fodder grass 



(PennisetuM purpureuin), 12. 

 Eng tree (Dipierocarpu? tu'ierculatus), j 



143. 

 England, aericultural reconstruction in, 



205. 

 — , credit societies in, 60. I 



— , Government assistance to tenants 



in, 16.">. 

 — , motor ploughing in, 163. 

 — , proposed erection of sugar-beet 



factory at Kelham. 188. 

 — , sweet potatoes in, 199. 

 England and Wales, agricultural returns, 



1917, 325. 

 Entomogenons Fungi : — 



Aegerita, 366. 



Aschersonia. 94. 36(1. 



Botiytis tenella 251. 



Cordyceps oeltata, 14. 



F.mpusa, 14. 



Entomogenous Fungi in Barbados, 94. ^ 



Fusarium sp., -^'-■ 



Green muscardine fungus {MctarfSii- 

 ziinn iviisifliM), 90. 94, 251, 331, 

 367. 



' Entomogenous Fungi {Conchtded): — 



Isaria, 14. 



Metarrhizium anisopliae (green mus- 

 cardine fungus), 90, 94, 251, 331, 

 367. 



Sphaerostilbe coccophila, 366. 



Sporotrichum globuliferum, 14, 367. 

 Eriodendron anfractuosum (silk-cotton 



tree), 92, 138, 283, 308. 

 Erythrina umbrosa (bois immortel), 331. 

 Essential oils, prices of, 361. 



— — , production of in India, 377. 

 Eucalypts in the Federated jMalay 



States, 127. 

 Eucalyptus citriodora (Lemon-scented 

 gum), 127. 



— globulus (Blue gum), 127, 377. 



— rostrata (Red gum), 127. 



Eugenia brasiliensis (Cherry of Brazil), 

 119. 



— dombeyi ( ' Grumixama ' or ' grumi- 

 chama'), 119. 



Euphorbia canariensis, 308. 



— Cyparissias, 344. 



European sugar-beet crop estimate, 121. 



Euxolus oleraceus, 349. 



Examinations in practical agriculture ic 



1916, 223. 

 Experiment station in the Argentine, 



189. 

 Exportation of rice from iJemerara pro. 



hibited. 121. 

 Exports from Dominica, 1916, 184, 236, 



— — British Honduras, 1.84. 



— — the Bahamas, 412. 



— — Trinidad, 268. 



' Extension Notes ", 233. 



Extension of cultivation in St. Kitts, 



296. 

 Extermination of rats, 207. 



P. 



Falkland Islands, prosperity of, 68. 

 Fallow and green dressing, 259. 

 False sago palm {Cycas circinalis), 93. 

 Farine or cassava meal, food value of, 



100. 

 Farm machinery classed as ' munitions ' 



in Great Britain, 72. 



— pests, new school-book dealing witfc, 

 147. 



— tractors, 203. 



Farm-jard manure, a source of potash, 



165. 

 'Favorita' {Tricholaenta rosea), 381. 

 Federated Malay States, camphor oj 



from, 317. 



— — — , eucalypts in, 

 127. 



Feeding value of vegetable ivory meal, 8, 

 Feijoa Sellowiana (pine-apple guava), 



411. 

 Felspars, potash fertilizers manufactur- 

 ed from, 137. 



