INDEX. 



ACID soils, 44 

 Aeration of soil good, 37 

 Age limit of yields, 134, 438 

 Agricultural Journal (E. E. A.) and 

 hog prices, 343, 344 ; on Poonac, 



359 



Agricultural Society (Trinidad) and 

 " Farming with Dynamite," 522, 



5 2 3 



Alcohol from coco-nut palms, 539 ; 

 from Manila fibre waste, 433 ; 

 from Sisal or Manila waste, 433 ; 

 native extraction described, 540 ; 

 yield from sap, 545 



Aieppi (India) and floods, 172 



Alcyrodicus cocois, 265 



Alysicarpus sp. (manimanihan), 127 



Ambepussa (Ceylon), horse-breed- 

 ing farm near, 502 



America causes copra to be im- 

 proved, 17 



American planting in the Philip- 

 pines, 556 



Analyses of nuts complete, 526 



Analytical returns of soil not every- 

 thing, 303, 304, 467 



Andamans, the, 14 



Andropogon sorghum, 66 



Antheaps removed by explosives, 

 520 ; cost of same, 520 



Aola estate (Solomons), 489 



Application of insecticides, 268 



Arachis hypogcea, see Ground-nuts 



Areca or betel nut as dividing belts, 

 198 



Army Board (U.S.) and forage 

 plants in P. I., 331 



Arrack, 545 



Arrowroot, 127 ; as catch crop, 81 



Arsenate of lead and bud-rot, 238 



Ash from coco-nut refuse valuable, 

 262 



Asiatic palm weevil, see Rhyncho- 

 phorus 



Aspidiotus destructor, 265 ; a coccus 

 274 ; in Fiji, Reunion, Tahiti, 

 Philippines, Society Islands, 487 ; 

 in West Indies, 488 ; kills palms 

 or prevents them bearing nuts, 

 487 ; affects bananas, 487 



Atlas preservative, 578 



Atolls (S. Pacific), 14 



Australian dairymen speak well of 

 poonac, 359 



Austria, how edible coco-nut butter 

 is made, and its value in, 596, 



597 



Avenue planting, 102 

 Azteca chartifex (an ant) encourages 



scale insects, 488 ; their antidote, 



488 



Baby-beetle in Solomons, 497 



Bachofen and his analysis, 42 ; an- 

 alyses of plant-food per acre, 313 



Bacillus coli and bud-rot, 239 ; and 

 Izal as a cure, 589 



Bacon, 128 per cent, dearer, 156 



Bad cultivation, how to remedy it, 

 228 



Bahamas, cost of seed-nuts for, 103 



Baker, Mr. Bethune, and L. irides- 

 cens (a moth) in Fiji, 476 



Balboa, Vasco Nunez, and planting 

 in 1513, 114 



Baling fibre, 469 ; rope and yarn, 

 572 



Bamber, Mr. Kelway, and coco-nuts, 

 420 ; on the cost per acre, and 

 on profits from copra, 594 



