Index 



631 



Native drying unsatisfactory, 369 ; 

 ownership and husbandry, 13 ; 

 planting law in Samoa, 139; 

 producers, 14 ; trading, 15 ; trad- 

 ing vessels, 375, 376 ; v. scientific 

 planting, 365 



Natives and catch-crops, 335 

 Necrobia rufipes attacks copra, 276 

 Neglected lands and their cure, 228 

 Negomho (Ceylon) and manuring 



experiments, 311 



Negri Sembilan (F.M.S.), area 

 under coco-nuts, 27 : and nuts v. 

 copra, 47 ; export of copra, 47 

 Nevis (W.I.) and planting, 65 

 New Guinea, 13; and lalang, 330; 

 (German) coco-nuts in, 119; 

 compared to Samoa, 120; num- 

 ber of palms, 120; how they 

 plant nuts in, 132 ; the Germans 

 in, 9, 10 



New Hebrides, 434 ; its output, 141 ; 



its British Association, 436 ; the 



Germans in the, 10; very suitable 



for coco-nuts, &c. , 435 



New plantations and manuring, 



314-316 

 New York, price of nuts in, 58, 108, 



"3, 178 



Nicobars, the, 14 



Nicholls, Dr. Alford, and compost- 

 heap making, 85 



Nicholson, S r F. A., on avenues of 

 coco-nuts, 54 



Nipa palms, alcohol and sugar, 555 ; 

 alcohol from, 548 ; sugar from, 

 546 ; the cheapest alcohol pro- 

 ducer, 555 ; alcohol, cost of the 

 raw material in P. I., 555 



Nitrate of soda for young palms, 

 304 ; increases moisture 30 per 

 cent., 305 ; must be kept dry, 

 305 ; chief artificial to replace 

 nitrogen, 305 



Nitrifying bacteria encouraged by 

 lime, 40 



Nitrogen and lime, 40 ; apply in 

 small dose-, 305; content of 

 leaves, nuts, shell, meat, milk, 



husk, 292, 293 ; content of 

 mimosa, 130; importance of, 

 299 ; its great advantage, 305 ; 

 needed to stimulate young palms, 

 304 



Nobel's, Ltd., of Glasgow and their 

 book on explosives, 511 



Noch, T. C. (F.M.S.), on planting, 

 46 



"Notes on Soil and Plant Sanita- 

 tion," 128, 329 



Notes on the extraction of oil, 526 



Nuevo Leon (Mex.) v. cattle, 153 



Nurseries, all stump?, &c., must go, 

 183, 184; and manuring, 287; 

 and planting at stake which is 

 best? 288 ; and seed-beds, 183; 

 and their preparation in West 

 Indies, 64; in Fiji, 459; in 

 Papua, 461 ; artificial shade for, 

 193 ; distance to plant, 461 ; need 

 shade, 186 ; number of nuts 

 to acre, 188 ; their extent per 200 

 acres for planting, 288 ; the need 

 of water, 183 ; the question of 

 location, 183 ; the question of 

 second planting, 290 ; v. other 

 methods of germinating nuts, 

 291 ; v. planting at stake, 132, 

 187 ; plant more than you need, 

 64, 91, 173, 178 ; when to trans- 

 plant, 290 



Nursery area \\ per cent, of total 

 to be planted, 288; beds should 

 be shaded, 64 



Nuts, a large shipment of, 50 ; 

 analysis of plant-food in, 292; 

 and their by-products, 355 ; and 

 their yield of oil or copra, 69 ; 

 average water and copra con- 

 tents, 527 ; avoid over-ripe ones, 

 67 ; analysis of, 295 ; detailed 

 analyses, 295, 526. 529 ; fre- 

 quency of crop-gathering, 67 ; for 

 copra, hand-picked v. dropped, 

 471 ; loss of young, 37; largest 

 in the world, 557 ; moisture 

 in, 527 ; moisture in 1,000,000, 

 527 ; number to ton of copra, 



