636 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Protection of building timber and 



other woodwork, the, 575 

 Province Wellesley seed nuts, 184 

 Provisions for the labourers, 166 

 Pruning unsuitable for coco-nuts, 2 

 Pseudococcus nipa, 265 

 Pudica (mimosa) as cover-crop, 130 

 Puebla (Mexico) and cattle, 155 

 Pycindia and root disease, 260 

 Pythium (Indian bud-rot), 225 



Queensland Agricultural Journal 

 on farming with dynamite, 510- 

 512; cost of copra in, 410; has 

 a thornless mimosa, 470-471 



Quincunx ; see Triangular 



Rabi, Isle of (Fiji), uses artificial 

 heat for drying, 474, 475 



Rainfall best in West Indies, 60 ; 

 in G.E. A., 142; in Panama, 

 107; in Papua, 76; needed, 26 



Rains and holing, 202 ; and plant- 

 ing out, 186 ; and transplanting, 

 203 



Rajapakse, A. E. (Ceylon), and 

 planting, 34 ; and manuring, 316, 



597 



Ramie as catch-crops, 81 

 Rat tins or guards, 218 ; virus, 218 

 Rats, 84, 92, 131, 217; and seed- 

 nuts, 175 ; in nurseries, 187 ; 



might eat poonac if used as 



manure, 469 

 Rations for Solomons labourers, 



496 

 Red beetle, see Rhyncophonts ferru- 



gineus 



Refuse, burning or burying, 44, 86 

 Remounts for the Army, can they 



be raised on coco-nut estates ? 



498 ; see also Horses 

 Rendova Island (Solomons), 49 

 Retort for charcoal-mak. . ' 

 Reunion and Aspidiolus, 487 

 Revenue and Expenditure in T 



dad (B.W.I.), 422, et seq. 

 Reyes, Seiior Vicente (P.I.)i 2 7 ! 



Rhinoceros beetle ; beetles and 

 breeding-traps, 454, 455 ; beetle 

 and Solomons, 497 ; beetles and 

 tar, 454 ; see also Oryctes rhino- 

 ceros 



Rhynchophorus fcrrugineus, 220 ; 

 attacks damaged trees, 272 ; and 

 seed-nuts, 175 ; details of, 271, et 

 seq. ; in P. I., 556; palmarnm, 

 266 ; the sign of their presence, 271 



Rice, 430, 431 ; as catch-crop, 314; 

 (mountain) as catch-crop, 103 ; 

 or hill paddy, 128 



Richmond, Mr. Geo. F., on coco- 

 nut husks for paper, 558 



Ricinus communis, 66 



Riddell, Mr. (British N. Borneo), 

 and labour, 430 



Ridges on nuts, 459 ; some in 

 Ceylon put top ridge in first, 

 459, 461 ; Thiele says put on 

 flat side, 461 



Ridgeway, Sir West, 429 



Ridley, H. N., on red beetle, 273 



River bank sites, 24 



Roads, arrange these first, 198 



Robusta Coffeci, an ideal catch - 

 crop, 332 ; and wide planting, 

 333; as catch-crops, 81 ; as inter- 

 crop, 1 86 ; and soya beans, 334 ; 

 and its yield, 332; done well in 

 Java, 434 ; for British N. Borneo, 

 434 ; in Java, 333 



Rocks must be removed, 26 



Roofing and felt from husks, 566 



Root disease, 253 ; aggravated by 

 undrained lands, 261 ; and ter- 

 minal bud, 259 ; and the stoppage 

 of supplies, 260 ; caused by im- 

 mature seed-nuts, 247 ; charac- 

 teristics of, 255, 259 ; continues 

 in old and dead palms, 262 ; 

 danger of spreading underground, 

 261 ; do not confuse with bud- 

 rot, 227, 255, 256, 258, 259; 

 encouraged by excessive drought, 

 261 ; how it may spread, 255 ; 

 in Ceylon distinct to West Indies, 

 257 ; in the West Indies, Stockdale 



