429 



Potatoes, economy in using, 59. 



— , sweet, breaking up of pasture for 

 planting, 153. 



Potatoes, sweet, in England, 199. 



Poultry notes, 157. 



— , sex ratio in, 328. 



Pouteria suavis, 1 74. 



Practical agriculture, examinations in 

 1916, 223. 



' Practical Lessons in Tropical Agricul- 

 ture', 140. 



Preparation of yeast, 297. 



Preparing sweet pntatoes for meal, 292. 



Price of cacao, effect of storage room on, 

 245. 



Prices of essential oils, 361. 



— of sugar, 216. 



Prickly caterpillar ( Amaranthus spin- 

 Dsus), 297. 



— pear, whitewash made with, 204. 

 Prize holdings competitions in Carriacou, 



238. 



— — — , Grenada, 61, 238. 

 Production of sweet-orange and lime oil, j 



new method, 41. I 



Progress in minor industries of Mont- 

 serrat, 43. 



— — tropical agriculture, 373. 

 Proaopis juliflora, 174. 



Prosperity of the Falkland Islands, 68. 

 Pruning, 221. 



Psidium guajava (guava), 119- 

 Psophocarpus tetragonolnbus (Goa or 

 Manila bean), trial of in .Jamaica, 264. 

 Pure and applied science, 200. 

 ' PiLssly' {PiyrUdiuca oleracea\ 349. j 



Putranjiva Roxburghii (Indian olive),' 



17.5. ; 



Q. i 



Quality of canes damaged by fire, 313- 



— — plantation rubber, 340. \ 

 Quebrachia Lorentzii. 374. 

 Queen.sland, agiiculture in. \'\~). 



— , cassava production in, CO. 



— , lotton cultivation in, 31(>. 



— , divining rod in, 135. 



— nut {Macxidaiiiia te^'iiijolia), 175. 

 — , papaw grown in, 316. 



— , .sugar growing in, 313. 



R 



Baiiilall abnormal, in St. Vincent, 79. 



in Antigua in 1916, 223. 



— Dominica in 1916, 56- 



of the British Isles during 1916, 

 108. 



returns, St Lucia, for 1915, 156. 

 Rajania pleionura (Waw waw or f 'arib 



yam), 253. 

 Rangpur lime in .Moutserrat, 12. 

 Hats, an easy way to kill, iI2. 



— and .sparrows, 233. 

 - their e.\termination, 207. 



^eatl'oreslation in .-intiiiua, 95. 

 I{ecipe for ginger Seer, 236. 



Recipes for making bread with tlour 



.substitutes, 299. 

 Recipe for making coconut butter, 317. 

 Record of average market prices, 155. 

 Red Gum {Eucalyptus rostrata), 127. 



— pepper trade of South India, 361. 

 Requirements of the rice plant at differ- 

 ent .stages of growth, 173. 



Research and agricultural education, 26 1 . 



— , — the British Cotton Growing 

 Association, 173. 



--, scientific and industrial, 217. 



— work in connexion with cotton, 

 408. 



Resistance of budded cottons to disease, 

 57. 



Resources of French and foreign col- 

 onies in the tropics, 57. 



Restrictions on the use of sugar, effect 

 of, 114. 



Rhodes grass (Ch'oris gayana), 12. 



Rhodesia, forage crops in, 297. 



— , green-dressing crops in, 297- 



— , tobacco industry in, 101. 



Rhodesian maize, purchase of by the 

 Imperial Government, 168. 



Rhododendrons growing on limestone 

 rock, 13. 



Rhynochetus jubatus (the kagou), 131. 



Rice and provision crops in British 

 Guiana, production of, 57. 



— as an article of diet, 71. 



— — human food, value of, 71. 



— crop in British Guiana, 360. 



— — of British India in 1915-16, 

 268. 



— cultivation in Trinidad, encourage- 

 ment of, 88. 



— exportation from Demerara 

 hibited, 121. 



— flour in Demerara, 101. 



— importation into .Jamaica in 1 

 236. 



— in Trinidad, 213. 



— indu.stry in .Jamaica, 252, 4 1 2. 



— plant, correlative characters of the, 

 213. 



— — , reijuirements of at different 

 stages of growth, 173. 



Rices, Indian, composition of, 108. 

 Robusta coffee in St. Lucia, 55. 

 Root systems of plants in reference 



drought re.sistance, 24. 

 Rotation for cassava, 245. 

 Rounceval pea [Vigna ungniculata) 



St. Vincent, 22. 

 Roup, 157. 

 Rubber Hevea, seed selection in 



cultivation of, 148. 



- industry, P.riDish, 283. 



— , plantation, ijuality of, 340. 



— production in Germany from indi- 

 genous weeds. 344. 



~ seeds, experimental production of 

 oil from, 360. 



sponge, a new. 60. 



pro- 



Uo, 



to 



the 



I Rubber, standardized, for Trinidad, 377. 

 { — supply of the United States, 89. 

 j Rubia cordifolia, 45. 

 ; Rural schools, health of, 383. 



S. 



[Saccharum ciliare, 21, 84. 



St. Croix, proposed erection of corn mill 

 I in, 262, 



St. Kitts, agriculture in, addresses an, 

 264. 



— — , Basseterre central sugar fac- 

 tory, 197, 356. 



— — , exports of sugar from, 51. 



— — , exten.sion of cultivation in, 

 296. 



— — , items of local interest, 21, 

 52, 85, 132, 196, 229, 263, 30«. 324, 

 374, 405. 



— — , sugar-cane varieties in, 413. 



— — , tobacco growing in, 44. 



St. Lucia Agricultural and Commercial 

 Society, 8. 



— — , — credit societies in, 

 279. 



— — , Coffea robusta in, 55, 263. 



— — , drought, and food supplies in, 

 201. 



— — , exportation of animals and 

 foodstuffs prohibited, 236. 



— — , food supply in, 12. 



— — , Government Lime .Juice Fac- 

 tory, extension of, 87. 



— — , items of local interest, 75, 1 16, 

 164 180, 263. 303, 34i; 398. 



— — , Madagascar beans in, 195. 

 - — , plant distribution in, 60. 



— — , — protection in, 377. 



— — ■, — importation, 174. 



— — rainfall returns for 1916. 156. 



— — . slaughter of immature cattle 

 prohibited at, 185. 



St. Vincent, abnormal rainfall in, 79. 



— — . acreage under cotton in, 407. 



— — , additiontl duties on cotton 

 products in, 220. 



— agricultural credit societies, 

 214. 



— — — department, note on, 

 124. 



— - , biological factors affecting 

 cotton production in, 319. 



— — Botanic Garden.s, plants in, 

 notes on, 79. 



— — , coco-nut cultivation in, 22. 



— — . cotton stainer in. eradicatioii 

 of native food-plants of, 30, 79, 92. 



— - , exhibition of local foodstuffs 

 in, 277. 



— , experiments with Lima beans 

 in, 5. 



— -, food-plants of cotton staiuer 

 in, destruction of, 30, 



— — Government granary, 307. 



