The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-11
COLONY PRODUCES.
Day Coming When we shel Hatch
AM on Tsgplsal
SECRETARY WILSON'S PLANS.
American Rubber to y Largely
Grown in PuertO Rico and the
philippines we Can Produce Our
own Bananas, siik, Teaasid cofss.

started, and then we shah be In a po-
sitIon to push with vigor On enterprise
of the utmost Importance to the come
merciai future of this country" said
Secretary, Of Agriculture Wilson yes
terday. Nov that we have extensive
colonial possessions IN the tropics there
is no longer any reason why We should
depend upon foreign supplies Of 80 in
dispensable an article as rubber, Of
which, during the fiscal year ended
June 50 last, we imported 1882 900
pounds, valued at fSi.sTb!0oO. AS yet
we are only experimenting, but have
hunted the world over to ind the best
varieties Of rubber-yieldips plants
there are a great many OF them, you
know-and, as a result Of our investiga-
tiion, we. shall arrive at ast9irly exact
knowledge on the subject. Consequent
~ we shall start the business Of rubber
culture on scientific principles, using
only the plants that give the most and
the finest kind OF rubber. and employ
ing ia the rearing OF them the informa-
Ton gained by study in the trial gar
dens. An this data will be published
eventually for the benefit Of persons
who wish to 90 into the business OF
rubber-srowIng. and before many
years have elapsed our own plantations
in puerto Rico and the Philippines
ought to be producing all the rubber
we require.
DO you realize that we buy annual-
ly more than $500, 100000 worth of trop-
ical products of various kinds7 Well.
such is the fact. and hitherto we have
not been able to do otherwise. But
there is no longer any reason why we
should not grow them ourselves, and
we shall do. 90 before very long. Our
idea Is to teach the people how to pro-
duce these things, and there ought to
be no great difficulty about 1t. Why,
indeed. should we import any agricul-
tural product? Do we not own vast
areas Of unused land all the way from
Point Barrow, Alaska, which looks out
upon the Arctic ocean. to the sulu
archipelago, only i've degrees Of lati-
tude above the equator? 1t Is our spe-
cial business, just now to inquire about
ese.s tn l.s S'' 800, a. mt for ourselves
Consider the banana, for example;
It is simple illustration. Are you
aware that more peopleain the world
live nm bananas than on wheat? Some
iSe On $500, s , s,,, Ssr5 the future.
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w s' -, - .s.Sis.i lts,s nds ~ our own!
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ou. - ~" .,.s,sass =, rroSrction Oh
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lIs = - -. .s,o,,t,St, nm The snot to
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rs . :. 80 p,co another IN 4a-
ro% "a anot,or n the philippines.
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IHe '. $500. sS- nh n,;nsr., yvho. while
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