624 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Fiji and catch crops, 470 ; and 

 pests, 4/6, et seq. ; and coco-nut 

 planting, 457 ; establishing an 

 estate, 457 ; elevated estates in, 



2 5 



Filipino labour for British North 



Borneo, 430, 435 

 Fire-dried copra, 361 

 Fire-drying for copra, its disadvan- 

 tages, 363 



11 Fire-lines," 129, 330 

 Fires caused by lalang, 330 

 Fish guano ; see Guano of fish 

 Florescence and fructification of 



coco-nut palms, 590, et seq. 

 Flores Sea and earthquakes, 28 

 Flowering in Samoa, age of, 134; 

 numbering of nuts per spathe, 68 ; 

 number of spathes per palm, 68 ; 

 pollination and maturing of coco- 

 nuts, 253 

 Flower-spathe, its by-product and 



uses, 357 

 Flying foxes, 218 

 Ponies semitostus, 263 

 Food grasses for cattle, 130 

 Forage plants in Philippines, 331, 



345 



Forest belts, need of, 612 

 Fortisch, Lieut. (P.I.) and yields, 



105 



Four-spotted coco-nut weevil, 273 

 Fredholm, Dr., on the florescence 



and fructification of the palms, 



591 ; what he says in the West 



India Committee Circular, 591 

 Fresh v. salt water for palms, 465 

 Freudenberg, Mr. W. (Ceylon), and 



manuring tests, 311 

 Friedrichs, Dr., and his beetle nests 



or traps, 450 ; on Nasicornus 



beetle fungus, 449, et seq. 

 Froggatt, Mr., on Aspidiotus^ 488 ; 



beetle and Solomons, 497 

 Fronds, Mr. Wickremaratne on 



diseased, 277 



Frontera (Mexico), soils in, 152 

 Fructification and florescence of 



coco-nut palms, 590 



Fruit as catch or subsidiary crops, 



US 



Fungicides for bud-rot, 237 

 Fungus-infested earth for Nasi- 

 cornus beetle, 451 ; its use to 

 destroy the larvae, 451, 452 



Gallagher's (F.M.S.) ideal catch - 



crop, 332 

 Galvanized iron for beetle traps, 



451 



Gambier, 335 



Garrick (of Samoa), Stuart S., on 

 the Solomons, 489 



Gathering nuts in Fiji, 471 ; cost in 

 Phil. Isles, 89; quantity per day, 

 89 



G.E.A. and coco-nuts, 142; ele- 

 vated estates in, 25 ; total palms 

 and nuts, 143 ; and palm wine, 



145 



Geese, 310 



General notes (since 1912), 587 



German Colonies and catch-crops, 

 128; and manuring, 126 



German East Africa ; see G.E.A. 



Germany and Zanzibar copra, 52 



Germination, nurseries z/. other 

 methods, 291 ; of seed-nuts, the, 

 181, 287, 289 



Giant moth, 266 



Gibbs, Dr. H. D. (P.I.), list of 

 coco-nut products, 355 ; on alco- 

 hol-making, 539 ; on coco-nut 

 vinegar, 549 ; on palm sugar and 

 alcohol, 555 ; on sugar-making, 

 546 



Gilbert Isles v. Samoa copra, the, 



447 



Ginger as catch-crop, 81 

 Gizo Island (Solomons), 493 

 Glassy star scale, 265 

 Gliricidia maculata (cacahuate), 127 

 Goat manure, its plant food con- 

 tent, 320 



Goiya system, the, 35, 21 1 

 Gordon, Grant and Co., Ltd. 

 (Trinidad), 49 



