634 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Phasmidte, how they eat the leaves, 

 482, 483 ; are nocturnal in habits, 

 483 ; in Fiji, 482, 483 



Pheasants as side industries, 117 



Phibalocera pythonins (a stick in- 

 sect) described, 483, 484 ; how 

 to check it, 485 ; attack "sweet " 

 palms, 486 



Philippine Agricultural Journal^ 

 the, 42 



Philippine Agricultural Review, 

 cost of the, 345 ; and grasses, 

 33 T J 345 > an( l Samoa, 123; on 

 fibre extraction, 56 [ 



Philippine coco-nut industry, Bar- 

 rett on the, 549 



Philippine copra bad, 552 ; exports, 

 85 ; output, 362 



Philippine Journal of Science, the, 

 269, 276, 296 ; on coco-nut pro- 

 ducts, 355 ; on analysis of nuts, 

 526 



Philippines and Aspuhotus, 487 : 

 and soil exhaustion, 279 ; bud- 

 rot in the, 73 ; cost of cattle in 

 the, 95 ; cost of clearing land 

 in the, 87; cost of collecting nuts 

 and making copra and oil, 89 : 

 cost of laying out an estate in 

 the, 90, 91, 95 : cost per acre to 

 plant in the, 98 ; cover-crops and 

 mulches for the, 127 ; drying in 

 the, 53 : emphatic on manuring, 

 94 : how and when the nuts are 

 gathered, 88; nurseries in the, 

 186 ; shipments of copra and oil, 

 428; and beetle pests, 270; and 

 bud-rot, 225 j and cattle, 344 ; 

 and Coccidce insects, 274 ; and 

 coco-nuts, 83 ; and yields, 104, 

 197 ; cause of crowded planting, 

 553 ; have lands to spare for 

 coco-nuts, 87 ; need cattle, 347 ; 

 new methods for the, 550 ; no 

 longer shipping oil, 358 ; O. W. 

 Barrett on, 11; production of 

 oil and toddy, 552 ; sea v. inland 

 nuts, 205 ; total trees and crop 

 in, 358 ; v. British North Borneo, 



429 ; trays for drying in the, 



373 

 Phoenix Islands v. Samoa copra, 



the, 447 

 Phosphates for young palms, 304 ; 



importance of, 299 ; seedlings. 



heavy feeders, on, 288 

 Phosphoric acid in leaves, nuts, 



shell, meat, milk, husks, 292, 293 

 Picking by hand v. dropping, 63, 



66,67, 136, 176, 177, 471 

 Picul of copra, nuts to make a, 52 

 Piggeries, when they pay, 310 

 Pig>-, 132, 303, 431; and poonac, 



359 ; as a second industry, 337 ; in 



Malaya, 46 ; poonac and Panama, 



117, raising; Seychelles kind not 



good, 340 ; raising, the types to 



breed from, 339 ; wild, 85 ; see 



also Hogs 

 Pineapples, 327 ; and cacao in 



Samoa, 444 ; as catch-crop, 199, 



443 ; exhaust the soil, 335 ; how 

 to plant them between the palms, 

 200 ; keep back the main crop, 



444 ; possibilities for fibre, 200 

 Pineapple tinning in Samoa, 444 

 Pinnoe, number per leaf and per 



palm, 280 

 Piper methysticuni (yaqona or Fiji 



grog), 470 

 " Pit " system and stagnant water, 



6 5 



" Pits ' condemned for planting out, 



65 



Plantains as catch-crops, 115 

 Plant-food content in leaver, husks, 

 shells, meat, milk, 292, 293 ; 

 increased by free transpiration, 

 280 ; in soil, analytical returns 

 not everything, 304 ; needed per 

 acre, 298; per acre, Dr. Bachofen's 

 analyses, 313 ; total removed by 

 the crop, 313; withdrawn by 

 -leaves, 293 ; removed by crops, 

 42 ; what must be replaced, 314, 



315 

 Plant for treating io ; ooo husks per 



day, 574 



