The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-03
THE PHILIPPINES, TWO PLAQUES.

There are some conditions which widely differ
this country and in the Philippines that it is hard
for Americans to understand the Fflpinos need
END why they thing and fail do another said
Brewster Cameron in Washington recently, speaking of
his mission from the United Chambers of Commerce in
the Philippines IF an American in Washington
meet with misfortune and there did be any
way of his retrieving it here he would probably go to
Baltimore or Philadelphia New York, and see what
employment he could get in of those cities. The
Filipino has no such resource He is a of the soil
in country whose sole interest is agricultural When
him his plantation, there he stays
and plods away making the bad matter in the
hope retrieving himself would his mind
to away and try his chances somewhere else.
Then. too people have little conception of
what the carabao is the Filipino. Here horse
for purpose for another, for third and
a mule for fourth perhaps; but the poor Filipino
his all these purposes combined He
plough harvest, he take his family jour
ney he cannot carry his products market he
have milk for food when he loses his carabao
That is what makes the rinderpest dreadful
l knew company who 10000 acres land and
head of carabao, visitation of the pest
worst CT neglected piece land in the Philippines
that with rank growth vegetation there it quickly
grows up to jungle and becomes uncuvatabe and must
be cleared anew expense perhaps of $50 acre
whenever it is to be turned to agricultural
more This is one reason why ther so little cause TO
that if the limit acreage nl2 single holding be
increased by law, any who acquires will
let lapse jungle again-it VIII be kept up as mere
of selfprotection nothing else will cost
more to clear it than TO keep it clear
The rnderpest not only has been terrible scourge
In its first manifestations but is persistent that
II has smittan herd of carahao impossible to
put others upon the land for five years thereafter
without their falling victims. That is what
striking the of the experiments with serum
prepared by the agriculture herd carabao
inoculated with it and ordered be put certain
virgin pasture turned loose by mistake land
thoroughly the rinderpest
by heard had recently died When the error
discovered there alarm but everybodys
astonis hment and delight the through
the ordeal unframed proving the effectiveness the
treatment they had received
THAT twin plague the locust something of which
the American who has with his own eyes can
have no conception One day I was writing at desk
with my back to the window, when suddenly apart
became dark if it had been artifcially lighted
and some had put the lamp | glanced around
&c discover what the and found the
ali the landscape blotted out of looked in fact
into solid oloudb bank of loeusts They formed dense
wall between the house and the objects other side
Of them In place where l them descend upon
.treethey covered it there was not silver of
wood foliage visible. The next day every shred OF
LEAKAGE gone: stripped as clean as
scraped with sharp blade. That way they ruin
the products of the EARTH and the discovery of fungus
which spread the ground where they have swarmed
heaps with their dead bodies of the
greatest OF That the rinderpest serum are
alone enough justify ali that the Taft commission hrs
done In organizing and maintaining the Bureau Of Animal
Industry