626 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



89 ; number per day, 89 ; the 

 nuts, rate per hour, 564, 565 

 Husking spearheads, wood v. iron, 



384, 385 



Husks and their by-products, 357 ; 

 and their plant food content, 292 ; 

 burnt with leaves and used as 

 manure, 474 ; for paper-making, 

 558 ; larger in shore than inland 

 nuts, 295 ; plant to treat 10,000 

 per day, 574 ; proportion of 

 whole nut, 71, 526; value as 

 manure, 353 



Ideal location, -26 



Ilu estate (Solomons), 490 



Imperial Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Barbados, and its publica- 

 tions, 58 



Implements must be sharp, 191 



Incinerators for burning diseased 

 palms, 234 



India and beetle pests, 270 ; and 

 bud-rot, 225 ; and palm sugar, 

 436 ; horse-breeding in Southern, 



201 



India Rubber World (New York) 



on "Farming with Dynamite," 



507, et seq. 



Indo-China copra, 552 

 Indian Ocean and rats, 217 

 Inland V. seashore nuts, analysis of 



each, 527 ; in Philippine Islands, 



205 ; plantations, 283 

 Inland, extreme distance to plant, 



25 ; estates, pros and cons, of, 24 

 Insecticides and scalicides, 266 

 Insecticides, application of, 268 ; 



for bud-rot, 237 ; methods of 



application, 583 

 Insect pests not very troublesome 



in Fiji, 476 



Insects and bud-rot, 239 

 Inspector of coco-nut and rubber 



lands, 263 

 Interplanting crops v. cattle, 128, 



129 



Ipecacuanha as catch-crop, 81 

 Ipil (Leucaena glauca), 127 



"Ipswich" cultivator for cogon, 



208 

 Iron (sulphate of) benefits the 



palms, '439 



Irrigate and avoid droughts, 281 

 Irrigation, advantages of, 93, 206 ; 



and increased yield, 294 ; for 



seedlings, 203 

 hchnaspis longirostris ', 265 

 Italy and Zanzibar copra, 52 

 Ivory nuts from the Solomon Isles 



and their value, 489 

 Iwahig Penal Colony, Philippine 



Islands, 102 

 Izal as a cure for pestalozzia, 589 



Jak-fruit as shade for nurseries, 

 1 86 



Jamaica, a manure sent to, 319; 

 and bud-rot, 253 ; and its horse- 

 breeding industry, 501 ; and root- 

 disease, 252 



Jambulade Tea and Rubber Co., 

 420 



Java, a bad case of stem-disease, 

 244 ; and beetle pests, 270 ; 

 and earthquakes, 28, 29 ; and 

 leaf disease, 253 ; elevated estates 

 in, 25 ; and robusta, 333, 438 ; 

 v . Ceylon, 20 ; tapping for sap, 

 542 



Javanese labour for British N. 

 Borneo and F.M.S., 430 ; for 

 Samoa, 448 



Jepson, Mr. Frank P., and Samoa, 

 121 ; discusses Phasmidoe (stick- 

 insects), 482-483 ; on the L. 

 iridescent (a moth) in Fiji, 476 



Johnston, John R., 225 ; on bud-rot 

 infection, 237 ; on Cuba, 71 



"Jumbo" ploughs, their cost, 96 



Jungle land, the clearing of, 161 



Juquila (Mex.) and corozo-nuts, 152 



Jute to be replaced by coir for cable 

 insulation, 573 



Kainit and cattle manure, 230 ; 

 as manure, better than salt, 298 ; 

 for compost heaps, 289 ; for 



