616 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Bamboos as dividing belts, 198 ; for 

 paper making, 433 



Bananas, 128; as catch-crops, 81, 

 115, 443, 470 ; infected by 

 Aspidiotus destructor (scale in- 

 sect), 487 ; profitable in Panama, 

 117 



Bangkok (Siam) and the Malayan 

 cattle trade, 347 



Banika estate (Solomons), 492 



Banks, Charles S., on pests, 269; 

 on Coccidae, 274 ; on copra 

 pests, 276 ; on Oryttes, 270 ; on 

 pests attacking coco-nuts, 274 ; 

 on Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, 

 272 ; on shot-hole weevil, 273 



Baracoa (Cuba) and bud-rot, 239 ; 

 shipments of nuts, 72 



Barrett, O. W., u, 83 ; on 

 compost heap-making, 85 ; on 

 bud-rot in Philippines, 73 ; on 

 cover-crops and mulches, 127 ; 

 on drying copra, 362 ; on la- 

 goons, 24; on mulching, 321; 

 on total trees and nuts in P. I., 

 358; on the Philippine coco-nut 

 industry, 549 ; on ploughing, 86 ; 

 on wide planting, 99 



Basic slag for coco-nuts, 306 ; for 

 compost heaps, 289 ; for neglected 

 lands, 229 ; its composition, 307 ; 

 its source of supply, 307 



Basidiomycetous fungus and root 

 disease, 258 



Bataille system of extraction, the, 

 532 



Batavia and coco-nut trading, 15 



Bats, 84, 218 



Bay of Bengal Islands, the, 14 



Beans, 127, 327 



Bearing age in Pacific Islands, 438 ; 

 in Panama, 1 12; in Samoa, 438 



Bearing trees, their value, 197 



Bears in Malaya, 46 



"Bee" system for clearing land, 

 162 



Beetles, 85, 219 ; and germinating 

 nuts, 181 ; 460 caught in three 

 months, 451 ; how to keep them 



away, 221 ; in nurseries, 187 ; 

 larvae, encouraged by moisture, 

 453 454 > (nasicornus) nests and 

 breeding places, 450, et seq. ; a 

 good nest, 455 ; their cost, 451 ; 

 rhinoceros and their extraction, 

 220 ; (Oryctes) traps, 445 

 Belts for dividing lands, 198 

 Berry, Alfred de, and Mexico, 150, 



151* 152 

 Betel or areca nut as dividing belt, 



198 

 Beven, A. W., on planting in 



Ceylon, 33 



Birds and bud-rot, 239 

 Bismarck Archipelago, 123 ; group, 



the Germans in the, 10 

 Biting insects, 266 

 Black line scale, 265 

 Blackman fans for drying, 395 

 Bluestone can kill the palms, 446, 



447 ; for Oryctes, 446 

 Bombay and Zanzibar copra, 52 

 Boname, P. (Mauritius), on coco- 

 nuts, 73 

 Bone-dust a satisfactory manure, 



468 ; in Fiji, ants eating, 468 

 Bone meal, 306 



Bordeaux mixture for leaf-disease, 

 . 247, 250 ; and bud-rot, 238 ; how 



to make it, 250 

 Bordeaux paste for leaf-disease, 238, 



250 

 Boring beetles (Rhynchophorus 



ferrugineus) and seed-nuts, 175 

 Borneo Planters' Association, 430 i 

 Botryodiplodia and root disease, 



260 

 Bouganville, free land for bond fide 



settlers, 496 

 Bouganville Island (Solomon group) 



being pushed by Germany, 496 

 Boulders and rocks removed by 



explosives, 520 

 Bourbon asnidiotus, 265 ; in the 



West Indies, 488 

 Braconid attacks larvae of coco-nut 



skipper, 274 

 Brassolis sophora, 266 



