Index 



623 



East Indian labour : will it go to 



the Solomons ? 495 

 Eberhardt, Herr (Samoa), and 



beetles, 452 

 Egg production increased by use of 



poonac, 359 



Elephant beetle in Solomons, 497 

 Elephant grass, 160 

 Ellice Isles v. Samoa copra, the, 



447 



Engineers and fibre extraction, 562 

 English planting in the Philippines, 



55.6 



Erwin Smith, Dr., on Cuba, 71 



Estate, cost in F.M.S. of bringing 

 into bearing, 416, 417; cost of 

 forming, Portuguese East Africa, 

 412; Trinidad (B.W.I.), 422, et 

 seq. 



Estates, difficulties and increased 

 costs, 420, 421 



Estimates for planting ; see Planting 

 estimates 



Excessive drought encourages root 

 disease, 261 



Expenditure and revenue in Trini- 

 dad (B.W.I.), 422, et seq. 



Explosives and ploughing, 510, 

 512 ; and rubber planting, 512, 

 et seq. ; and sub-soil water, 510, 

 et seq. ; benefit sub-soil, 518, 

 519; coral sub-soil broken by, 

 516, et seq. ; cost of, see Dyna- 

 mite ; cost less than coolie labour, 

 519, 520, 522; distance and 

 depth of holes in Ceylon, 518, 

 519, 521 ; in Trinidad, 522-523; 

 for planting trees, 513, et seq. ; 

 for semi-arid cultivation, 516 ; 

 for use when ploughing is difficult 

 or impossible, 515 ; number of 

 holes and cost per man per day, 

 519 ; save a year in growth, 

 514 ; six reasons for using, 508, 

 509 ; to check pests, 515 



Extracting fibre machines, 567 



Extraction of oil, the single sim- 

 plex, 536 



Extreme altitudes, 25 



Factories, central, and their advan- 

 tages, 530 



Fans and shelves, 401 



Fans for copra as for codfish, 

 395 ; drying, 395, et seq. 



Fans, horse power required for, 

 407 



Farming with dynamite, 507 ; cost 

 in Ceylon, 518, et seq. ; cost in 

 S. Africa, 515; see also Explo- 

 sives 



Farquhar Island (Mauritius) and 

 its coco-nuts, 74 



Fatty acids in oil, 369 



Federated Malay States, cost of 

 bringing an estate into bearing 

 in, 416, 417 ; need cattle, 347; 

 and seed-nuts, 285 



Felling trees in Solomons, cost and 

 methods, 495 



Fencing, 92 ; against animals, 187 ; 

 for pests, 85 ; in Samoa, 135 



Ferguson's " Manual," 223, 273 



Fertilizer trade and its propaganda 

 work, the, 308 



Fertilizers ; see Manure 



Fibre, copra, &c., in British North 

 Borneo, 429 



Fibre-dust makes a good felt, 355 



Fibre extraction, 561, 567; cabler, 

 bobbin-winder and biler, 572 ; 

 the "breaker," 567 ; the "finish- 

 er," 567 ; machinery and trans- 

 port costly, 561 ; machinery to 

 be further improved, 562 ; fibre 

 not made in Fiji, 474 ; the fibre 

 extractor, 567 ; the willowing 

 machine, 569 



Fibre from pineapples, 200 ; per- 

 centage of nut, 526 ; the extrac- 

 tion of, 561 ; the mechanical 

 extraction of, 559-561 ; fibre v. 

 copra with nuts, 561 ; unripe nuts 

 give best, 67, 561 



Fibres and their uses, 353 ; where 

 found in the palm, 353; values 

 of, 1 8, 606 



Figg, Hon. W. H., on coco-nuts, 



420 



