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its future as a copra-producer, 

 141 ; native .coco-nut lands in, 

 119; native law to plant palms, 

 120, 121 ; number of palms in, 

 119 ; ordinances re picking, 441 ; 

 re planting, 437 ; palms flower 

 at five years, 134 ; previous to 

 1910 had no pests, 123 ; tem- 

 perature 82 P F., 448; the Ger- 

 mans in, 9 ; yielding age and 

 yield, 134, 135; v. Solomons 

 for coco-nuts, 438 ; very healthy, 

 448 ; yield of copra per acre, 

 418, 438 



Samoanische Zeitunq and Nasi- 

 cornus beetle fungus, 451 ; 

 and the Solomon Isles, 489 



Samoan nuts best for Hawaii, 123 



San Bias, how they gather seed- 

 nuts, 287; its situation, 109; 

 nuts, cost of, 108, 113, 178; nuts, 

 weight of, 108 ; seed-nuts, 107, 

 178, 184, 205 



San Luis Potosi (Mexico) and 

 cattle, 155 



San Pablo (P. I.), "ch centre, 88 



San Ramon (P. I.), exper. farm. 

 280 ; and copra, 557 ; and yield, 

 292 



Sandy soil, two manures for, 318 



Santa Cruz, Laguna (P.I.) and red 

 beetle, 271 



Sap from 100 coco-nuts, 548; for 

 sugar, the extraction of, 547 

 Gibbs's analyses of, 544, 545 

 sucrose in the Philippines, 554 

 tapping for, 540 ; tapping in 

 Java, 542 ; tapping in Madras, 

 540; yield per tree, 543 



Sarsaparilla as catch-crop, 81 



Savaii (Samoa) and planting or- 

 dinances, 437 



Sea climate, the question of a, 22 ; 

 proximity to the, 24 ; the, its 

 proximity cheapens transport, 24 



Seashore v. inland nuts, analysis of, 

 527 ; v. inland nuts in P. I., 205 ; 

 palms, Walker on, 293 ; why 

 palms like, 281 



Seaweed, its plant-food content, 

 320 



Scalicides and insecticides, 266 



Scientific v. native planting, 365 



Scott, Mr. E. Kilburn, suggests use 

 for coir fibre, 572 



"Scott" system of extraction de- 

 scribed, the, 537 



Sea, when coco-nuts will not grow 

 near the, 440 



Second plantings, 290 



Seed-beds and mulching, 64 ; and 

 their laying out, 64 ; see also 

 Nurseries 



Seedlings and damaged roots, 291, 

 463 ; and their root growth, 

 191 ; care needed when remov- 

 ing, 182, 183, 192, 193 ; how to 

 counteract damage, 191 ; how to 

 place in holes, 463 ; how to plant. 

 463 ; how not to plant, 464 ; 

 labourers eat contents, 133 ; need 

 water (salt in preference), 464, 

 465 ; possible cause of too quick 

 or slow growth, 462 ; reject 

 quick and slow growers, 462 ; 

 their "low vitality" period, 189, 

 291 ; and shade, 192 ; when to 

 move, 290, in Fiji, 461, in 

 Papua, 462 ; how to move, 290 ; 

 how to move in Fiji, 463 ; how 

 to transplant, 182 ; when to trans- 

 plant, 189 



Seed-nuts, 173; age of trees for, 

 63; and "curing," 179, 185; 

 and sprouting in Samoa, 441 ; 

 and their colour, 174 ; and their 

 food material, 289, 291 ; best 

 shape of, 63 ; best size, colour, 

 and shape, 184, 185 ; best trees 

 for, 285 ; best age of trees for, 

 175, 184 ; best to plant, 458, 

 459; beware of affected ones 175; 

 buy 20 to 50 per cent, more than 

 needed, 64, 91, 173, 178; cost 

 of, 103 ; see also in estimates, 9, 

 79, 91, 95, 98 ; destroy discarded 

 ones, 65 ; dropping v. hand- 

 picking, 176; from Fed. Malay 



