632 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



7, 8, 52, 69, 70, 79, 135, 146, 

 285, 364,411,415,418,439,531, 

 55> 557 '> picking v. dropping, 

 63, 66, 67, 136, 176, 177, 285, 

 47 1 ; plant food in, 280 ; prices of, 



8, 17,18,47-52,58, 108, 113,114, 

 178; ripe and unripe, 66 ; their 

 copra, oil, and other contents, 

 294, 295 ; their yields in oil and 

 other products, 294 ; thin out 

 excess and increase their meat, 

 440 ; to i lb. copra, 7, 8 : Trini- 

 dad (W.I.) shipments, 51, 58, 

 1 14 ; variation of contents, 294 : 

 v. copra and oil, 58 ; z/. copra for 

 sale, 357 ; v. copra, relative 

 value, 52 



Nyapara, the, 213 

 Nyasaland and horse-breeding, 501 

 Nyor gading (King or Dwarf coco- 

 nuts) in the F.M.S., 595 



Oaxaca (Mex.) and cattle, 155 



Oaxacan Valley (Mex.), 150, 151 



Ocean transport, 371 



Oil and copra v. nut?, 58 : in 

 Mauritius, 74 



Oil and cake v. copra exports, 475 ; 

 cost of making, in P. I., 89; 

 detailed analyses, 529; extrac- 

 tion by "chekku," or native 

 mill, 71, 531 ; extraction of, 526 ; 

 extraction, the Bataille process 

 explained, 532, et seq. ; gallons 

 to cwt. or ton of, 70, 531 ; in 

 Kapok seed, percentage, 607 ; in 

 Oaxaca (Mex.), 152 ; in nuts, its 

 increase and decrease, 294 ; in 

 nuts, variations of, 294 ; its deodo- 

 rization and purification, 532, et 

 seq. ; its export reduced, 358 ; 

 mill, area to satisfy a, 71 ; ob- 

 tained per ton of copra, or 1,000 

 nuts, 69; output by "chekku" 

 mills, 71, 531, 532; output per 

 forty nuts, 53 * J over-ripe nuts 

 useless for, 67 ; per cent, of ex- 

 traction, 69 ; per ton of copra, 

 69 ; prices of, 49, el seq., 58 ; 



production at eleven centres, 531 ; 

 production in the Philippines, 

 550 ; selling value of coco-nut, 

 soya, &c., (1912) 17-19, (1913) 

 603-606 ; shipping in bulk, 358, 

 360 ; solvent extraction of, 530 ; 

 weight per gall., 70; world pro- 

 duction, 531 ; v. copra or nuts, 

 49, 5. 51, 58, 114, 35 8 366, 

 373; yield per tree, 531 

 Old plantations and manuring, 316, 



317 



Oleine from vegetable oil, 530 

 Onions and salads as catch-crops, 



116 



Oranges and coco-nuts, 115 

 Oranges as a catch- crop, 200 

 Oreodoya regia (the royal palm) 

 attacked by L. ir ides fens in Fiji, 

 478 



Oryctes rhinoceros (the black-beetle), 

 88, 219, 273 ; and seed-nuts, 

 175 ; details about, 270 ; encour- 

 aged by the N. h. trade winds, 

 125; follows east winds, 453; 

 how it spread in Upolu (Samoa), 

 123, 125 ; its introduction there, 

 125 ; how lo extract them, 270 ; 

 how to tell their presence. 270 ; 

 hunting and nests for the, 445, 

 446 ; in Annam, Cambodia, 

 Samoa, 121, 123 ; in Samoa, how 

 it came and spread, 125, 445 ; in 

 P.I., 557 ; their extraction in 

 Samoa, 446 



Pachuca (Mexico) and cattle, 155 



Pachyrhizus sp. (yam bean), 127 



Pacific coco-nuts, do they yield 

 early ? 438 



Pacific Isles and lalang grass, 129 ; 

 cost of labour in, I ; growth of 

 palms, 134 



Padrona chrysozona (coco - nut 

 skipper), 274 



Pahang (F.M.S.), area under coco- 

 nuts, 47 ; export of copra, 47 



Palm-kernel oil, value of, 605 



Palm oil, value of, 605 



