Index 



British Guiana and bud-rot, 253 ; 

 and coco-nuts, 58 ; and root 

 disease, 252 



British North Borneo, fibre and. 

 copra in, 429 



Broom corn, 66 



Brown, L. C. (F.M.S.), and weed- 

 ing, 184 ; on prices, 52 ; and cost 

 of planting in Malaya, 5 ; on cost 

 of cultivation, 415 ; of copra, 416 ; 

 on the florescence and fructifica- 

 tion of the palms, 590 



Bud-rot, 216, 224; aggravated by 

 undrained land, 261 : and 

 Bacillus colt, 239 : and burning 

 in incinerators, 234 : authorities 

 on, 231 ; caused by Pestalozzia 

 palmarum, 225 ; described by 

 Johnson, 231 ; described by 

 Rorer, 230 ; encouraged by damp, 

 227 ; in Cuba, Dr. Erwin Smith 

 on, 71 ; in Fiji affects only one 

 tree in many, 482 ; in India 

 (Pythium), 225; in Philippines, 

 73 ; Rorer on its control, 237 ; 

 somewhat similar to damage by 

 Trachycentra sp., 481 ; spread by 

 green nuts, 240 



Buffalo grass (Monerma repens], II, 

 130 ; in Samoa, 442 



l< Bug-lights," 220 



Buildings, decide first in plan, 197 



Building your drying house, 382, 383 



Bureau farms (P. I.) selling im- 

 proved cattle, 344 



Buri palm, alcohol, buri-palm 

 sugar, 555 



Buri palms, sugar from, 547 



Burning when clearing, 168 



Burns Philp and ihe Solomons, 493, 

 496 



Bursting or split trunks in Samoa, 

 126 



Burying and burning, 228 



Busch, on Cuba, 225 



Butler, Dr. (of Pusa), 225 ; on root 

 disease, 257 



Butter, the manufacture of edible 

 coco-nut, 596 



Byars, A. F., agricultural inspector, 



P. I., 88 

 By-products of a coco-nut palm, 



Dr. Gibbs' (P. I.) list, 355; 



utilize your, 562 



Cabbage-eating moth (Trachycentra 

 sp.), 480 



Cable insulation by means of coir 

 fibre, 573 



Cableways on estates, 182 



Cacahuate (Gliricidia macula (a), 

 127 



Cacao and coco-nuts, careless pre- 

 paration, 370 ; and pineapples in 

 Samoa, 444; and rubber, 128; 

 and rubber v. coco-nuts in 

 Samoa, 447 ; and Philippine 

 Islands, 90 ; as catch-crop with 

 palms, 40 by 40, 470 ; in Samoa, 

 140 ; does well in New Hebrides, 

 435 ; from the Gold Coast, 12 ; 

 gathering in the West Indies, 89 ; 

 husks to draw Nasicornus beetles, 

 450, et seq. ; in the German 

 Colonies, 10 ; in Samoa, 119; 

 native and scientific planting, 



365 



Cake and oil v. copra exports, 

 475 ; (linseed and cotton), value 

 of, 606 



Canada and " Farming with Dyna- 

 mite," 511 



Canavalia enstfortnis, 66 ; gladiata, 

 66 ; sp. sword bean, 127 



Cane v. palm sugar, 546, 547 



Cape Delgado (German East Africa), 



143 



Cape Marsh, best land in the Solo- 

 mons, 491 



Caraboes or water oxen, cost of, 98 

 Caravonica cotton as catch-crop, 



200 



Carbide of calcium whitewash for 



canker on cacao, 447 

 Care and upkeep of estates, 206 

 Carolina, U.S.A. and deforestation, 



612 

 Carolines, Germans in the, 10 



