The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-27

pit Out-Developing the Silk In
nstry-The Government Lands
nj the New Irrigation Works
me Forests Which Have Two Hum
red Billion Feet of Board Timber
LEortuncs for Big Lumber Com
Understanding About the Gold
Ainc--A Look at the MOrOs and
ri What We Have Done for Them.
bpvright, 1912, by Frank c.. Car
Denter.1
WASHINGTON. d. c.
n this. my last letter on Uncle
IN in the Philippines, | wan to
something Of the new money
king possibilities which are being
encd I'D by The government. l
Ne aIready written OF the fortunes
the Development of hemp. sugar
n rice. and also Of the great cocoa
groves. which annually yield from
to S, per tree. ] have written
the public works, the roads and
M railroads. and something of the
her work which IS now going on.
So far but few favorS have been
Zen 10 foreigners, and by this |
Ian Americans and Europeans.
kcle Sam has gone on the motto
he Philippines for the Filipinos,''
d he has practically shut out the
hnds from foreign exploitation. AS
result the material development has
En- Slow, IL the archipelago has
In held as d great savings bank.
which it's resources are being kept
the people. 1t is a question
ether they would not be better off
outside investors were allowed to
me In and build up the country.
fly Thousand New Rubber Trees.
ust now one Of the new things in
bspect is the establishment of a
Bier industry. The Department OF
kiculture believes that the islands
we'll fitted for that, and different
Ids of rubber plants and trees were
)ught in three or four years g
planted in about eight different
>vinces. The varieties chosen were
ny. The most Of them came from
IRA and they included not only
es but shrubs and vines. There
te also some Para rubber trees
>ught from the Amazon valley.
b Ceara rubber did not do, but the
"a rubber trees, which produce
krly all the rubber Of commerce.
Z iilIlNcA anu lIIc OulCou ~ "SAA
ture has arranged to distribute
poo Para seedlings to the proper
alities. These seedlings are now
wing in the government nurseries
they will be put out under the
ection Of the bureau and carefully
tched. If they do as we'll as is
pected We shall have a rubber eX-
t from the Philippines which will
m one Of the most valuable as
8 Of the islands. 1t is the Para
bher that has been introduced into
llaysia and the Dutch East Indies,
Wing created a great boom, which
3 caused speculation in London and
coughout the East.
Developing the Silk Industry.
Another great possibility for the
ilippine Islands is in silk culture
is known hat the silk worm has
IN grown there from generation te
peratjon. and Mr.. Charles II
nks, of the bureau Of science a
nila, a Y that nine crops or CO
ms a be annually produced. This
about -four times as many as some
the other silk countries nave ant
ere is now under way a
breed up a race Of silk worm
pre- which will outlay all others
e bureau of science is making
pix to instruct the people how t
fld UP the industry. It gives direc
ms as to how to raise the cocOons
" TO feed the young worms. am
20 how to prepare the raw silk TO
inning. AS it is now the island
port the most of their raw sill
pm China and they mix it wit
e fibers Of the islands in weaving
81 cloth and other cloths of higl
ice.
The bureau Of agriculture say
at the mulberry tree can be grow
over the Philippines and that
I'll furnish food for the worm
Thin TWO Nears after planting. :
Pree-year-old tree will give enoug
aNes for a thousand silk worms, an
20 and one-half acres will supper
pc thousand trees, which will fee
ore than three million silk worm
MS number of worms should pre-
pee several thousand pounds Of &C
pons. In short. it Is estimated thu
le SILK business will Yield somethin
ke q thousand dollars an acre an
aat 1T will steadily grow as to tn
FONTS. Connected with the Agricu
aral College there is now a mod,