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THE COCO-NUT 



Ceylon — continued — 



Toddy — Method of obtaining, etc., 



171, 172, 173, 174, 179 

 Varieties, 109 

 Jaffna, 112 

 Laguna, 111 

 San Ramon, 110 

 Chemical composition of coco-nuts — 



Tables, 154-156 

 Climate, 19-25 

 Cochin — 



Coir industry, 186 

 Copra manufacture, 191, 194 

 Coco-nut cake — Chemical composition 

 of, 156 



"Coco-nut Planter's Manual," 79 

 Coco-nut Trees Preservation Ordinance, 

 68 



Coert, Jb. — 



Amathusia phidippus, 96 



Preparation of land, 127 

 Coffee rust pest, 33, 34 

 Coir, 114, 182-190, 198 

 Copra — 



Average amount of production from 



nuts, 110, 111, 113 

 Chemical composition, 156 

 Manufacture, etc., 190-201 

 Cradwick — Bud rot, 56 

 Cuba — 

 Diseases — 



Bud rot, 52-56, 81 



Pesialozzia palmarum, 38 

 Insect pests — 



Rhynchophorus palmarum, 81 



Scolytidae, 90 

 Lady-birds, 100 



Dapitan — San Ramon nut, 110 



Deli, Sumatra — Effect of humidity on 



coco-nut culture, 24 

 Demerara — 

 Bud rot, 52 

 Passalus tridens, 90 

 Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen- 

 Gesellschaft — Copra drying house, 

 199-201 

 Diseases, 31-63 



Bud rot, 33, 42, 43-63 

 Constitutional weakness, 31 

 Fungi, 34-43, 55 

 JBotryodiplodia, 40 

 Diplodia — 



D. cacaoicola, 41 

 D. epicocos, 42 

 Fomes, 35 



Helminthosporium incurvatum, 38 

 Pesialozzia palmarum, 36, 55 

 Thielaviopsis ethacetica, 35 



T. paradoxa, 36 

 Thyridaria tarda, 42 



Doane — Insect pests — 

 Calandra taitensis, 88 

 Sphenophorus obscurus, 87, 88 



Dutch Indies — Use of trained monkeys 

 for harvesting, 169 



Earle— Bud rot, 52 



Fawcett— Bud rot, 56 



Ferguson — "Coco-nut Planter's 



Manual," 79 

 Fibres — Coir compared with other 



kinds, Tables, etc., 182-184 

 Field culture, 123-169 



Care of adult groves, 144-150 



Cultivation of young groves, 135-144 



Fertilizers, 150-164 



Harvesting methods, etc., 164-169 



Preparation of land, 123-130 



Transplanting, 130-135 

 Florida — Latitude of bearing trees, 21 

 Foxworthy, Dr. — Use' of trained 



monkeys for harvesting, 169 

 France — Coco-nut oil'manufacture, 201 

 Fredholm— Bud rot, 56-60 

 Friederichs — Oryctes rhinoceros in 



Samoa, 73, 74 

 Froggatt — Insect pests— 



Calandra taitensis, 88 



Chalcosoma atlas, 90 



Eurytrachelus pilosipes, 90 



Graeffea cocophaga, 98 



Sphophorus obscurus, 87 



Trichogomphus semilinki, 89 



Xylotrupes lorquini, 89 



German Potash Syndicate, 157 



Gibbs— Toddy- 

 Arrack, yield, etc., Tables, 179-181 

 Composition of sap — Tables, 175- 

 177 



Yield of sap, 174 

 Godaveri River — Bud rot, 43, 44 

 Grand Cayman — Bud rot, 52 

 Green, E. E. — Rhynchophorus, 78, 81, 

 83 



Greig, W.— Bud rot, 60 

 Guiana, British — 



Fungi disease, 36, 42 



Strategus anchoreta, 88 

 Guiana, Dutch — Rainfall, 22 



Hart— Fungi disease, 41 

 Hawaii — 



Insect pest — Sphcnophorus obscurus, 

 86 



Omiodes blackburni moth, 97 

 Hervey Island — 



Insect pest — Graeffea cocophaga, 98 

 Hogs, 106 



Honduras — Bud rot, 52 



