644 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



Wire netting for beetle traps, 451 



Williams, T. A. (Torres Straits), 159 



Willowing machine, 569 



Wind and coco-nuts, 106; and 

 transpiration good for nuts, 282 



Windbreaks and avenues of coco- 

 nuts, 55 



Woburn Bordeaux paste and bud- 

 rot, 238, 250 



Wood and its by-products and uses, 

 357 > wood for beetle traps, 451 ; 

 work, an efficient preservative for, 

 577 ; the best preservative, 576 



Woolly pyrol, 66 



Worcester, Dean C. (P. I.), 83, 207 ; 

 and his book, 100 ; on coco-nut 

 planting in P. I., 84 ; on drying, 

 373 ; n good copra, 395 ; 

 on lands still available, 87 ; on 

 ploughing, 103 ; on profits from 

 coco-nut planting, 101 ; on yields, 

 104 



Wye Agricultural College and 

 poonac experiments, 505, 506 



Yam bean (Pachyrhhus sp.) t 127 

 Yams, 128 ; as catch-crop?, 81, 115, 



1 1 6, 442 

 Yaqona (Fiji grog or Piper me thy s- 



ticum}, as a catch-crop, 470 



Yields, 418, 440 ; age of maximum, 

 68 ; age of starting to bear, 68 ; 

 disappointing, 601 ; hastened I 

 to \\ years by cattle, 94 ; in- 

 creased 50 per cent, by manure, 

 311, 312; doubled by potash, 

 597 ; 'in Malaya, 6, 7, 8 ; in 

 Papua, 80; in Philippines, 104, 

 197 ; limit of age, 68 ; per hec- 

 tare, 292 ; the question of, 55, 97, 

 600-602 ; will thinning out the 

 nuts increase the, 440 



Yielding age in Panama, 113; in 

 Samoa, 134 



Yellow and green nuts the com- 

 monest, 557 



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



Young palms most affected by 

 manures, 303 ; care of, 464, 465 



Yucatan and cattle, 155 ; cattle fed 

 on sisal refuse in, 328 



Yuccas as catch-crops, 115 



Zamboanga (P. I.), advantage of 



cattle, 337 ; and large yield, 104 ; 



cost of cattle, 339 ; shipment of 



copra, 540 



Zanzibar copra, 384 ; prices of 



copra in, 51 ; the destination of 



her copra, 52 



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