622 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



De Candolle on the original home 

 of the nuts, 114 



Deforestation, beware of, 610 



Demand for copra in Europe and 

 America, the, 17 



Denmark uses poonac, and obtains 

 great benefits, 475 



Deodorization of oil, 532, et seq. 



Der Pflanzer, 531 ; and sisal, 328 



Desiccated coco-nuts, I Ib. three 

 nuts, 70 



Desiccated coco-nuts, rate of rasping 

 per day, 89 ; -v. other products, 5 1 



Deutsche Ost-Africa Ges., 146 



Deutsches Handel und Plant. Ges., 

 121, 129, 438 



Diameter of palms, 30 



Diaspis boisduvalii, 265 



Diaz, Sr. Vicente (Philippine 

 Islands), and yields, 105 



Disc-harrows for Philippines, 86 ; 

 in Philippines, 88 



Disease remove badly affected 

 trees, 265 ; resisting palms, pos- 

 sibility of, 265 



Diseased trees, burying, 73 



Diseases and pests in Samoa, 444, 

 et seq.; in West Indies, publica- 

 tions on, 59: consult the plant 

 doctor, 222 ; of the coco-nut 

 palm, 216 ; the four chief ones, 

 224 



Distance to plant in Philippine 

 Islands, 99 ; in nurseries (Papua), 

 461 ; in Samoa, 439; to plant, 

 see Planting distances 



Doane, Prof. (U.S.A.), and nasi- 

 cornus beetle fungus, 450 ; on 

 scale in Tahiti, 487 



Donkeys for seed-nut transport, 182 



Donkeys for transport, 136 



Dormer estate (Solomons), and its 

 good land, 491 



Dos Rios estate (Mexico), 152 



Double-headed coco-nut, 428 



Douglas, Loudon, F. R.S.E., on 

 hog-products, 343, 344 



Drainage, 26, 27 ; and inundations, 

 29; how to arrange it, 172 ; im- 



portance of, 205 ; its many ad- 

 vantages, 264 ; must be attended, 

 to, 65 



Draining, importance of, 33 ; in 

 Ceylon, 38 



Drains for high and low lands, 38 ; 

 how to cut them, 38 ; to bury 

 refuse, 39 ; to catch water and 

 humus, 38 



Dreiberg, Dr. (Ceylon), on cause of 

 leaf-disease, 252 



Dried blood satisfactory as a man- 

 ure, 468 ; in Fiji ants and crabs 

 eat it, 468 



Drought and kainit, 230; causes 

 loss of leaves and nuts, 281 ; 

 counteracted by nitrate of soda, 



305 



Drugs and medicine, 163 



Dryer in Solomons, a mechanical, 

 492 



Dryers for the Philippines, 552 



Drying copra, and oil content, 53 > 

 generally discussed, 385 ; in 

 Fiji, 472 ; time needed, 54, 382, 

 474 ; loss in weight, 527, 474 



Drying houses, cost of, 399, 403 ; 

 how to build them, 383, 384 



Drying in the Philippines, 53 ; the 

 question of, 52 



Ducks, 310 



Dum-palms, 161 



Durango (Mex.) and cattle, 153 



Dwarf (or King) coco-nuts in 

 F.M.S., 595 



Dynamite, advantages of its use, 

 507, 508, 509 ; cost per acre in 

 South Africa, 515 ; farming with, 

 507 ; see also Explosives, for 

 stumping and clearing, 169 ; for 

 the Coral Islands, 439 



Earle, Professor (Cuba), 225 

 Earthquake centres, avoid, 28 

 East Africa, cost of labour in, I ; 

 African Estates, Ltd., and their 

 bacon factory, 340 ; Protectorate, 

 copra export from, 340 

 East Coast Africa and its soil, 27 



