144 



Disease, little damage reported by, 1.34. 

 Drought in San Carlos, 57. 

 East coast of Negros, 15. 

 Egyptian cane, 80. 

 Egyptian soils, 70. 

 Experiments, quantitative, 114. 

 Factories, central sugar, 127. 

 Fertilization, in Negros, 73 ; necessity of, 



73. 

 Filter-press mud, 104. 

 Fortuna, hacienda, 56. 



FULGORIDAE, 42. 



Future of Negros, 133. 



General information regarding Negros, 10. 



Hacienda Carmencita, district of Ponteve- 

 dra-La Carlota, sugar boiling test, 105. 



Hacienda Fortuna, 56. 



Hacienda Lumaiigub, district of Bago, sug- 

 ar boiling test, 106. 



Hacienda San Jose, mill equipment on, 115. 



Hacienda Santo Tomas, 56. 



Hacienda Valle Hermoso, 56. 



Harbor of Bais, 64. 



Hawaii, leads in sugar production, 72. 



Hawaiian soils, 70. 



Hawaiian Islands, 79. 



HoLOTRicHiA VIDUA Sharp, 140. 



Hog River, 15, 49. 



Hog-Cabancalan, analyses of cane from, 

 54 ; analyses of soils of, 51-53 ; area and 

 production of, 50 ; composition of cane 

 of, 55 ; formation of sugar lands of, 49 ; 

 location of, 49. 



Iloilo markets, price of sugar in, 128. 



Insects, little damage reported by, 134. 



Improvements, possibility for, in cultiva- 

 tion of sugar, 126. 



Impurities, maximum percentage, 102. 



Impure sirup, 108. 



Irrigation, as a source of increasing yield 

 of cane, 126. 



Iron cars, used in transporting cane to 

 mill, 91. 



Java cane, 80. 



Java soils, 71. 



Jimamaylan, 49. 



Juice, extraction of, from cane, 92 ; clari- 

 fication of, 101 ; local name for, 102 ; 

 manufacture of sugar from, 99. 



Kalaanang, 86. 



Laborers, where secured, 20 ; wages paid 

 20. 



Lime, in Negros soils, 48 ; slaked, as fer- 

 tilizer, 74. 



Liming, 101. 



Local names for juice, sirup an<J sugar, 

 103. 



Losses during boiling, 103 ; inversion, 104 ; 

 mechanical, 108. 



Louse, white leaf, 141. 



Louisiana cane, 80. 



Louisiana soils, 71. 



Manufacture, advantages of modern methods 

 of, 132 : modernizing methods of, 127. 



Market, Iloilo, for Negros sugar, 128 ; New 

 York, for Negros sugar, 128. 



Mauritius soils, 72. 



Mechanical analyses of Negros soils, 69. 



Mechanical losses, 108. 



Melolonthidae, 140. 



Milling plant, type of, 96. 



Mills, efficiency of sugar, 94 ; three classes 

 of sugar, in Negros, 92. 



Modern methods, advantage of, in manu- 

 facture of sugar, 132. 



Mount Canloan, 11. 



Mountain chain, principal, 15. 



Mountains, 11. 



Mud, filter-press, 104. 



Municipality, table showing land cultivated 

 in sugar in each, 17. 



Native labor, difficulties past and present, 

 20 ; difficulty with, 20, 21. 



Negros, cane of, 76 ; cause of low average 

 yield in, per hectare, of land, 134 ; fu- 

 ture of, 133 ; geographical location of, 

 10 ; handicapped by severe tropical rains, 

 73 ; nationality of planters in, 19 ; num- 

 ber of planters in, 134 ; seven important 

 sugar districts of, 135 : size, shape and 

 area of, 10 ; soils of, compared with 

 other countries, 72. 



New York market, price of Iloilo sugar in, 

 128. 



Oregma lanigera Zehnt., 141. 



Other sugar-producing districts of Negros, 

 15. 



Planters of Negros, 134 ; nationality of, 

 19. 



Planting, different methods of, 83, 84. 



Plow, present style of. used in Negros, 83. 



Plowing sugar fields, 82. 



Phenice moesta Westw., 142. 



Pontevedra-La Carlota, analyses of cane 

 from, 42 ; analyses of soils of, 39—41 ; 

 average composition of soils of, 41 ; 

 abandoned land of. 37 ; area and produc- 

 tion of. 38 ; topography of, 37. 



Preparation of sugar soil, 82. 



Price of sugar in Iloilo markets, 128. 



Purple cane, average composition of, 76. 



Pyralidab, 141. 



Quality of sugar, produced in Negros, 109— 

 111. 



Quantitative experiments. 114. 



Rainfall, at La Carlota. 12. 13; at Bacolod. 

 13. 



Ratoon cane, cultivation of. 85. 



Recoletos, 19. 



Refugio Island, 55. 



Rivers, of Negros. 11. 



Sale of sugar, 113. 



San Carlos, analyses of cane. 63 : analyses 

 of soils of. 58-61 : area and production 

 of. 57; location of. 15. 55; location of 

 sugar plantations of. 56. 



San Enrique River. 37. 



Santo Tomas. 56. 



