430 



St. Vincent, ground nut cultivation iu, 

 22. 



— — , improvement of Indian corn 

 in, 14. 



— — . Indian corn cultivation in, 



— — ; items of local interest, "20, 

 75, 8i, 164, 228 278, 311, 341, 375, 

 399. 



■• — — , local food supplies in, 194. 

 — , manurial experiments with 

 arrowroot in, 125. 



— — , minor industries, progress in, 

 22 



— , peas grown in. 22. 

 • — — , plant importation. 174. 

 — , storing corn meal in, 100. 



— — , / 'ictorhi ivgiu. var. trickeri, 

 in new lily jx)nd, 28- 



Sai {Shorea ro/uisfa) seedling-s, 189. 



Salads and spinach, 349. 



Kale of fertilizers in Sfuth Africa, regu- 

 lation of, 287. 



Salisbury bacon factory, prices paid for 

 bacon pigs, 172. 



Salt industry of the Turlss and Caicos 

 Islands, 255. 



Sauii colic in animals, 270. 



culture.'^, plants grown in, IfO. 



Sapodilla, or ' sapoti' (Ai/iras sopoto), 



— 119. 



Sapucaia nut (/tri////V /.ahinKJo), 175. 

 Sarsaparilla on the London market, 15, 



63, 95. 1.59. 191. 223. 255, 287, 3.35. 



367, 399. 

 'Satolite", 380. 

 School-book, new, dealing with farm 



pests, 147. 

 School of Tropica! Agriculture, Ceylon, 



first year's work. 121. 

 Schools, rural, health of, 3!53. 

 Science and agriculture. 1 85. 

 — . pure and applied, 200. 



— in Japan, progress of, 280. 



— teaching in the Antigua Grammar 

 School, 379. 



Scieotific and industrial research, 217. 



— — — — in Can- 

 ada, 261, 



— exploration in Central Africa, 136. 



— — — the West Indies, 

 136. 



— names, changing, 127. 



— societies, conjoint board nf, .'>13. 

 ^e.i Island cotton crop, 1916-17, 27i>. 



— — market, ."., 22, 3», 54, 

 —70. i:<6. 118, 134. 1.50, 166, 182, 198. 



214,230, 246, 262, 278, 326.342, 

 358, 390. 



— — — . prohibition of exports 

 of. 327. 



— — — prospect.-. 131. 



iriaa purslane {^Srsi/riiini /'Oi-li(t<uas- 



trum). 349. 

 ^^i-arbv SNsteni of milling sugar-cane, 

 371. 



Seaweed as a potassic manure, 62. 



Seaweeds, economic uses and possibil- 

 ities of, 94. 



Sechium edule (choco), 359. 



Securidaca Lamarckii ('Easter Blossom), 

 79. 



Seed preservation in the tropics, sugges- 

 tion ~ for, 68. . 



— selection in the cultivation of Hevea 

 rubber, 148. 



— tape, 25. 



Seed-corn, storing in Grenada. 276. 

 Seedlings, relation of green manures to 



failure of, 25. 

 Seed.-, effects of copper sulphate, sodium 



carbonate, and sodium chloride upon, 



156. 

 Selection of corn for seed, 406. 

 Semecarpus anacardium (marking nut), 



174. 

 Senile decay in plants. 111. 

 Serum treatment, and swine fever, 217. 



27^. 

 Sesuvium portulacastrum (sea purslane), 



349. 

 Settlement scheme for East Indians, 388. 

 Sex ratio in poultry, 328. 

 Seychelles, ajowan seed grown in the, 



300. 

 — , coco nut selection in, 163- 

 Shield-budding of coffee, 205. 

 Ship worms, wood-boring, 316. 

 Shorea robu.sta (Sal), 189. 

 Sicilian lemon industry, 363. 

 Silk -cotton ixQ^ (Eriiidciidniii itiifnutu- 



os,i»i\ 92, 13.^, 283, 30,s. 

 Silvery -leaved Juniper (fiiiiipcnis pachy- 



fhlcin), 79. 

 Siniulium. transmission of pellagra by. 



definitely disproved, 300. 

 Sisal cultivation in Egypt, possibilities 



for, 76. 



— industry in the Bahamas, 316. 



— waste, fermentation of, 71. 

 Slaughter of immature cattle prohibited 



at St. Lucia, 1.^5. 

 Society of chemical industrj', annual 



reports of, 28 1 . 

 Sodium carbonate, effects of upon seeds, 



156. 



— chloride, effects of upon seeds, 156. 

 Soil aeration and the growth of sal 



seedlings, 189. 



— evolution in volcanic districts, 135. 



— protozoa, 171. 



— sterilization, 171- 



Soils, Antigua, gall patches of, 159. 



— . Hawaiian, phosphate deterniinalions 



of, 103. 

 Soils, heated, studies on, 171. 

 — , laterite formation in, 1 13. 

 Solanum maminosum, 114. 

 Solar ovens, 251 . 



Solid and liquid camphoi trees. 179. 

 Sonchus oleracus (sow thistle), 3 19. 

 Sour grass. West Indian, 5 



South, F. W,, IfS. 



South Africa, fertilizers id, regulation of 



sale of, 287. 

 • — — , citrus canker in, 190. 



— — , industrial development in, 92. 



— — . progressive desiccation in, 

 393. 



South American railways, geography of, 

 156. 



South India, red pepper trade of, 361. 



Sow thi-tle (Saitc/itis ii/craa/s), 349. 



Spachea perforata, 28, 79. 



Spanish ash {//iga luiiriva), 95. 

 i Sparrows and rats, 233. 

 I Specific gravities of fixed oils, determin- 

 ation of, 140. 

 I Spider lily (/fyiiit-/ioca//ii' cx/'aiisd), 7. 



Spigelia anthelmia. 203. 

 i Spondias cytherea (caja mango), 119 

 I — dulcis (golden apple), 404. 

 I - — lutea (caja). 1 19. 



— tuberosa. 391. 

 jS(|uashes. substitutes for, 333. 

 j Standard bread, 4. 



Standards for foods, 271. 



Steam boilers and fuel in the sugar tac- 



tory. 35. 

 j Steamship communication between Phila- 

 I delphia and the West Indies, 222. 

 iSterculia caribaea (' Mahoe cochon ' or 

 I ' Stave wood'), 308. 



Stizolobium aterrimum (Bengal beans), 

 I 42. 



— I»eermgianum (white velvet bean) 

 as a stock food. 316. 



I cultivation in Moutserrat, 12, 3.S. 



— pachylobium (tteshy pod bean) cul- 

 tivation in Montserrat, 12. 38. 



j — sp. (velvet beans), 42. 



I Stock, a weed dangerous to, 203. 



I — , fish meal as food for, 265, 



I Storage room, effect on price of cacao, 



I 245. 



Stories in agriculture, 120- 

 Strainer vine (/,/.#</ n/iiic/n\a), 333. 



j Stiychnos toxifera, 152. 



' Studies in conne.xion with pellagra, 270. 



— on heated soils, 171. 



; Sugar beet crop estimate, European, 12. 

 , — — factory in England, proposed 

 i erection of. 18^. 

 Sugar-cane, after-ripening of, 275. 

 j — crop, Porto Kican, 82. 



— cultivation, motor tractors used for, 

 339. 



— experiments in the Leeward Islands, 

 117. 



— in Antigua, area under different 

 varieties of, 146. 



— — Uganda, 115. 



Sugar cane, raising of seedling canes in 



Trinidad, 364. 

 — , Searby system of milling. 371 

 — . toni cane per ton sugar, 11. 



— varieties in St. Kitts, 413. 



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