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how best to avoid it, 245 ; how 

 it causes loss, 245 ; how it causes 

 the death of the palm, 245 ; in- 

 fluenced by debility of the tree, 

 244; in Trinidad, 246; "little 

 leaf" form, 251, 252, 258; pre- 

 vention better than cure, 251 ; 

 remedies suggested, 248 ; spores 

 rapidly, 248 ; the best remedy, 246 

 Leaves and their uses, 31 ; and 

 their withdrawal of plant food, 

 293 ; and transpiration, 280 ; 

 burnt with husks and used as 

 manure, 474 ; need room to move 

 in, 98 ; number per palm, 280 ; 

 their by-products and uses, 357 5 

 the size of, 61 



Legumes under coco-nuts, 301 



Lc guminous crops for root disease, 

 264 



Lemon grass as catch-crop, 81, 128 



Lepidoptera in Philippine Islands, 

 274 



Lepidosaphes mcgregori a scale 

 insect, 275 ; L. unicolor a scale 

 insect, 275 



Lepine, an early analyser of palm 

 products, 42 



Lesser Antilles, class of land in, 59 ; 

 Moluccas, copra trading in the, 16 



Leuccena g lauca (ipil), 127 



Lever Bros., Ltd., Employees Com- 

 pany, 494 ; in the Solomons, 

 490, 494, 495' 496, 497 



Lightning and its effects on the 

 palms, 481, 482 



Light railways on estates, 182 



Lima beans, 66 



Lime for young palms, 304; its 

 action on the soil, 40 ; impor- 

 tance of, 299 ; its effect on other 

 manure, 40 ; quantity per acre, 

 40, 41 



Limes and coco-nuts, 115 



Liming in Ceylon, 40 



Lindi (G.E.A.), 143 



Lining and holing for planting out, 



J 95 



Linseed cake, value of, 606 



L. iridescent (moth) an old estab- 

 lished trouble, 477 ; attacks 

 palms, 476 ; causes palms to 

 be unproductive, 478 ; hopes of 

 fighting, 479, 480 ; how it affects 

 the palms, 478, 479 ; probably 

 not at Taviuni and Vanua Levu, 



478 ; suddenly left the palms, 



479 ; why did it leave ? 480 



" Little-leaf" disease, 251, 252, 258 

 Loamy soils, two manures for, 319 

 Locality, care needed in choosing 



your, 22 



Locusts and explosives, 516 

 London and the cattle trade, 



345 ; Chamber of Commerce 



Journal and Samoa, 140, 141 ; 



Chamber of Commerce and 



cattle trade, 345 ; meat prices 



going higher, 347 

 Lopaphus cocophagus (stick insect) 



described, 484, 485; commits 



dreadful ravages, 484; how to 



check same, 485 

 Louvie estate (Solomons), 492 

 Lower Perak and coro nuts, 46 



for seed nuts, 184, 189 

 Low vitality period, 291 

 Luchan (P.I.) and bud-rot, 227 

 Lunga district (Solomons), 491 

 Lyon bean (Muctina lyoni], 127 

 Lyon, Wni.' S. (P.I.). 8 3 5 on 



coco-nuts, 353 ; on over-ripe 



nuts, 67 ; on palm vinegar, 549 ; 



(P.I.) on root systems, 62 



McCollough, Mr. Max (P.I.), 90 

 Machinery for fibre extraction to be 



further improved, 562 

 Madagascar and rats, 217; copra, 



384 ; cost of labour in, I 

 Madanayake, Mr. (Ceylon), on 



coco-nut disease, 276 

 Madras Mail on disappointing 



yields, 601, 602 

 Madras, tapping for sap, 540 

 Mafia Island (G.E.A.), 143 

 Main, Mr. (Malacca P. Assoc.), and 



estate inspectors, 263 



