Index 



641 



Sucking insects, 265 



Suction-gas from waste wood, 524 



Sugar-cane, 431 ; borer, 266 ; land 



cultivated with explosives, 522 

 Sugar from coco-nuts, 546 ; refuse, 



its plant food content, 320 ; yield 



from Nipa palms, 548; yield in 



P.I. per twenty-five palms, 554; 



yield per hectare, 547 

 Sulu (P.I.) and mixed estates, 83 

 Sun-dried copra, 361 

 Sun drying, 380 

 Sungi (P.I.) and bud-rot, 225 

 Sunlight, the need of, 60 

 Superphosphate, its effects on the 



soil, 307 

 Superphosphates and coco-nuts, 



306 ; their manurial value, 306 

 Swahili of East Africa, the, 147 

 "Sweet" palms and stick insects, 



486 



Sweet potatoes, 128, 328 ; as catch- 

 crops, 81, 115, 116, 491; in 



Solomons, 490 

 Sword bean (Canavalia s/>.), 66, 



127 

 Sydney (N.S.W.) and inferior 



copra, 440 ; and the South Sea 



trade, 141 



Tabasco (Mexico), 150, 151, 152; 



best for coco-nuts, 152 

 Tahiti and Aspidiotus, 487 ; v. 



Samoa copra, 447 

 Tamaulipas (Mexico) and cattle, 155 

 Tanga (G. E. A.) and coco-nuts, 142 

 Tank steamers for coco-nut oil, 358, 



360 



Tanks for retting, 566 

 Tapahan dr-ying for copra, 362 ; 



or fire drying, 381 

 Tapioca (M. utilissitna), 128, 327; 



as catch-crop, 81, 83 ; exhausting 



to the soil, 84, 330, 335 ; in 



Samoa, 119 ; v. lalang, 329 

 Tar against beetles, 242, 243, 454 

 Taros, 128 ; in Samoa, 119, 443 

 Tasavarong estate (Solomons), 491 



Taviuni (Fiji) and fine palms, 458 ; 

 bud-rot, 482 ; leaf disease, 476 ; 

 seems free of stick insects, 486 ; 

 free of one moth, L. iridescent, 

 478 ; but has another, Trachy- 

 centra sp., 480; favours mimosa 

 as cover crop, 470 ; ill-supported 

 palms fall, 469 ; lime before nuts 

 can be planted out, 461 



Tea and explosives, distances, &c. , 

 519; in the German Colonies, 

 10 



Tehuantepec (Mexico), 150 



Temperature for copra-drying, 367, 

 380, 407 



Temperature for cultivation, range 

 of, 20 ; the best for coco-nuts, 60 



Tenaru district (Solomons), 490 



Tephrosia Candida, 66 ; purpurea, 

 66 



Testing the soil, 27 



"The Book of High Explosives'" 

 (Nobel's, Ltd., of Glasgow), 511 



" The Coco-nuV Bulletin No. 8, by 

 Wm. S. Lyon, 353 



The Indian Trade Review on fibre 

 extraction, 561 



The Planters" Journal (F\]\), 476 



Thermometer range for estates, 26 



Thielaviopsis paradoxa causes stem 

 disease, 240 



Thiele, H. H. (Secretary, Fiji 

 Planters' Association), on coco- 

 nut planting in Fiji, 457, et seq. ; 

 says lower seed nuts to ground, 



459 

 Thomas, A. S., Secretary, British 



Association in New Hebrides, 



436 



Thomas's phosphate ; see Basic slag 

 Thosea cinereamarginata in P. Is., 



274 



Tilling and weeding, 36 

 Times of Ceylon and "Farming 



with Dynamite," 512, 516, 520 

 Time to dry, table showing, 382 

 Tobacco as catch-crops, 81 

 Tobago (W.I.) and bud-rot, 230 ; 



Caravonica and coco-nuts in, 200 



