630 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Maturing, flowering and pollination 

 of coco-nuts, 253 



Mauritius bean in the Solomons, 

 490 



Mauritius, coco-nuts in, 73 ; yields 

 of copra and oil per nut, 74 



Mauronia estate (Solomons), 489 



Measurements of a palm, 196 



Meat (undried copra), analysis and 

 weight of, 295 ; and its by- 

 products, 355 ; detailed analyses, 

 529 ; proportion of, 526 ; plant 

 food in, 292 



Mechanical appliances, 579 ; dryers, 

 their advantages, 363 ; extrac- 

 tion of fibre, the, 561 



Mechanically dried copra, 361 



Medicines ; see Drugs 



Megass for paper-making, 433 



Mexico and cattle, 92, 153 ; and 

 coco-nuts, 150; and "Farming 

 with Dynamite," 511 ; and hogs, 

 156; and its meat-buying centres, 

 !55; citv and cattle, 155; 

 exports of nuts, 151; the cattle 

 land for U.S.A., 155 



Micronesia (German), cost of plant- 

 ing in, 8 



Mikindani (G.E.A.), 143 



Milk, analysis and weight of, 295, 

 526, 529 ; and its by-products, 

 357* as a vinegar or beverage, 

 353 357 ; distil the, 433 ; forms 

 plant food, 179; its waste and 

 utilization, 353 ; plant food in, 

 292 ; wasted, 373 



Milk (cows') and its fat-content in- 

 creased by poonac, 475 

 Mimosa ( M. pudica] as cover-crops, 

 331; for cattle, 130, 469, 470; 

 in Samoa v. Vaofalli and Vailima 

 grass, 443 ; its draw-hacks, 130; 

 its nitrogen contents, 130, 327; 

 largely introduced in Fiji, 469 ; 

 Queensland's thornless variety, 

 470, 471 ; the spikes, a draw- 

 back, 331, 469-471 ; under coco- 

 nuts, 301 



Mindanao (P.I.) Estates Co., 87; 

 Mindanao Herald and cattle, 

 336 ; decennium number, 89. 



Minor cultivations, pros and cons. 



f> 35 



Mixed crops for British N. Borneo. 

 430; plantations and Samoa, 140 

 Mkoma, the, 161 



Modern methods, advantages of, II 

 Moisture in copra, 367, 527 

 Molucca copra and its defects, 370 ; 



seas and earthquakes, 28 

 Moncrma repens ; see Buffalo grass 

 Mongoose, 218 



Moniec, Malay and English com- 

 pared, 417 

 Monkeys, 84, 92 ; and germinating 



nuts, 181 

 Monsoon the, its importance and 



source, 613 



Moore, P. J. (P.I.), and yields, 105 

 Moors' (Mr. H. J.) estimate of cost 

 of copra, 417 ; on Nasicornus 

 beetle fungus (Samoa), 449 ; on 

 Samoa in 1913, 437 

 Moths (/... iridescens) cause disease 

 resembling leaf-disease, 476 ; 

 (Tracky centra} resemble bud-rot, 

 481 



Mould in copra and drying, 54 

 Mouldy copra, 53, 366 

 Mountainous regions, taboo, 24 

 Mount San Cristobal (P. I.), 225 

 Mowing-machines for lalang, 129 

 Mucuna lyoni (Lyon bean), 127 

 Mulching before planting out, 195 ; 

 for seed beds, 64 ; lands, 207 ; 

 loss through lack of, 322 ; round 

 the palm stems, 210 

 Mulch, the, by O. W. Barrett, 321 

 Muriate of potash for pestalozzia, 



5^7 



Murva fibre as catch-crops, 81 

 M. utilissima ; see Tapioca 



Nasicornns beetle fungus, the, 449; 

 how it attacks the larvoe, 449 ; 

 how beetle and fungus are brought 

 together, 450, et seq. 



