618 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Caroline Isles v. Samoa copra, the, 



447 



Cartridges (explosives) quantity to 

 use and cost, 521, 522 



Casia optucifolia (ka-moce) as 

 cover-crop in Fiji, 468, no use as 

 a fodder, 468 



Cassava ; see Tapioca 



Castnia dcedalus, 266 ; licus, 266 



Castor beans, 128 



Castor-oil plant, 66 



Cat, the coco-nut, 182 



Catch-crops, 327; advantages and 

 disadvantages, 263, 470, 471 ; 

 Gallagher's (F.M.S.) ideal, 332 ; 

 in Fiji, 469, 470; in German 

 Colonies, 128; in Panama, 115; 

 and Papua, 81 ; in Philippines, 

 83; pros and cons, 327; their 

 cultivation good for coco-nuts, 

 328 ; v. lalang, 332 ; until cattle 

 can come, 443 ; when they pay, 



102 



Caterpillars, 266, 278 ; in Malaya, 

 46 



Cattle, 302, 327, 431 ; among the 

 palms, 43 ; and catch-crops, 443 ; 

 and coco-nuts, two to three acres 

 per head, 309 ; when to turn 

 them in the coco-nuts, 336, 469 ; 

 and manuring, 419 ; and mimosa, 

 130, 469 ; and poonac, 359 ; and 

 young trees, 303 ; as a second 

 industry, 3, 336, 337 ; as weed- 

 eaters in Samoa, 442, 443 ; cause 

 damage, 135 ; cheaper meat 

 means cheaper estate supplies, 

 503, 504 ; cost in Philippines, 

 95; in Samoa, 418, 442; in the 

 Solomon Islands, 491 ; fence in 

 at night, 309 ; for grazing cost in 

 the Philippine Islands, 117 ; for 

 grazing, sale price in Philippine 

 Islands, 117 ; for manuring, 

 the best pays best, 342 ; hasten 

 yielding one to one and a half 

 years, 94; 100 head manures 10 

 acres, 309 ; in Ceylon, 309 ; in 

 Mexico, 153; in Panama, 116; 



in Philippines, 92, 344; in Samoa, 

 127 I manure, 303 ; manure very 

 valuable, 43 ; markets tor their 

 meat, 338, 347 ; meat dear in 

 Ceylon, 504; in Europe, 503; 

 meat to go dearer in London, 

 347 ; number of bulls needed, 

 346 ; number of cattle to acre, 

 309 ; on estates in Philippine 

 Islands, 94 ; pay in Fiji, 469 ; 

 prize stock, the export from U.K., 

 342 ; raising, the question of 

 specializing, 340, 341 ; their cost 

 in Zamboanga (Philippine Is- 

 lands), 339 ; the question of dead 

 weight, 346 ; three head to an 

 acre, 129 ; to keep down weeds, 

 129; and interplanting, 128, 129 

 Ceaia and coco-nuts, 83 

 Central Factories and their advan- 

 tages, 530 



Centrosema beans (C. plu>nieri), 127 

 Ceylon, Agricultural Society on 

 Coco-nut diseases, 276 ; and 

 beetle pests, 270 ; and cattle, 

 H7 39 5 an< i coconut cat, 

 182 ; and drying, 381 ; and 

 floods, 172; and her native:, 

 21 ; and her planters, 20, 21 ; 

 and limit of yielding age, 68 ; 

 and palm sugar, 546 ; and trans- 

 planting, 291 ; as a horse-breed- 

 ing centre, 501, 502; its horse- 

 breeding farm, 502 ; copra, 366 ; 

 copra v. others, 16, 17 ; cost of 

 labour in, I ; cost of land in, 

 i ; cultivation in, 33 ; elevated 

 estates in, 25 ; is she specially 

 favoured ? 19 ; manuring experi- 

 ments, 316 ; nuts compared to 

 others, 76; nuts, 285; recom- 

 mends Guinea grass as a fodder, 

 471 ; sale price of copra in, 417 ; 

 shipment of nuts, 51 ; shipment 

 of coco-nut products, 50 ; symp- 

 toms of root-disease in, 257. 

 Ceylon Observer on explosives, 520 

 Chalcis obscurata kill larvce of 

 coco-nut skipper, 274 



