640 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



for nurseries (Papua), 461 ; for 

 planting, testing the, 27 ; how to 

 tell fertile, 27 ; in G.E. Africa, 

 142; in Mexico, 152; in Papua, 

 76 ; on rotten coral land gives 

 best coco-nuts in Solomons, 492 ; 

 size of samples for analysis, 27 ', 

 sanitation must be on all estates, 

 263 ; the, 281 ; exhaustion in 

 the Philippines, 279 



Soils must not be tenacious or stiff, 

 62 ; the question of, 59, 60 



Solf, Governor Wilhelm, and 

 Samoa, 441 



Solomon Island nuts compared to 

 others, 76 



Solomon Isles and its output, 141 ; 

 and a mechanical dryer, 492 ; 

 and coco-nuts, 489 ; and rubber, 

 49 2 > 4935 c st of land, 495; 

 land all taken up, 496 ; not suit- 

 able for rubber, 492, 493 ; v. 

 Samoa for coco-nuts, 438 



Sorghum, 66, 344 



Sour soils, avoid, 26 



South Africa and deforestation, 

 612 ; and farming with dyna- 

 mite, 515; cost of same, 515 



Southern India and horse-breed- 

 ing, 501 



South Pacific Islands, the Ger- 

 mans in the, II 



South Sea copra and its defects, 

 370, 384 ; Islands, cost of land 

 in, i 



Soya beans and robusta, 334 ; an 

 ideal catch-crop, 332 ; as catch- 

 crops, 81 ; for British N. 

 Borneo, 434 ; inoculating the 

 soil, 334 ; non-competitors to 

 coco-nuts, 393 ; pay as cattle 

 feed, 334; value of, 1 8, 605 



Soya oil, selling value of, in 1912, 

 19, et seq. ; in 1913, 605, et seq. ; 

 extraction of, 526 ; the solvent 

 extraction of, 530, 537 



Spraying in Trinidad, 224; spray- 

 ing machines, 579; value of, 

 47 



Squirrels, 92, 219 ; and seed-nuts, 

 175 ; in Malaya, 46 ; in nurseries, 

 187 



Staff, sports and pastimes for the, 5 



Stagnant water detrimental, 60, 66, 

 282 



Stanmore (Solomons), Lever Bros.' 

 Employees Co., 494 



Steamers filled with coco-nut pro- 

 ducts, 360 



Steam heat not a success for 

 copra, 379 



Stearine from vegetable oil, 530 



Stem and stem-bleeding disease, 240 



Stem disease, a bad case in Ceylon, 

 243 ; in Java, 244 ; and death of 

 the tree, 241 ; caused by 7 hie- 

 laviopsis paradoxa, 240 ; excising 

 and burning the remedy, 241 ; 

 its characteristics, 242 ; in Cey- 

 lon, in Trinidad, in the East, 242 ; 

 more prevalent in wet weather, 

 241 ; not caused by beetles, 244 ; 

 reason of its importance, 241 ; 

 the symptoms, 241 



Stevenson, Mrs. R. L., 442 



Stick insects ; see Phasmida 



Slizolobium deeringianum (velvet 

 bean), 127 



Stockdale and leaf disease, 248, 

 249 ; on bud-rot, 227, 228 ; on 

 burning diseased palms, 236 ; 

 on "little leaf" disease, 252 ; on 

 root disease, 252, 255, 257, 258 ; 

 report after examining a diseased 

 root, 259 



Stone boats for transport, 171 



Stores on estates, 95, 96 



Straits Settlements, cost of labour 

 in the, I ; need cattle, 347 ; value 

 of bearing trees, 197 



Stumping after dynamite, 523 ; by 

 dynamite, 169 ; in Papua, 81 ; 

 necessary for nurseries, 184 



Stump pullers, 168, 169; the Aus- 

 tralian " Monkey jack," 169 ; 

 pulling and clearing, 167 



Subsoiling by means of explosives, 

 510, 516 



