The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-20

are trees in the Philippines VI
bring in more han IS a year. so~.
Of the nuts being worth much No..
thar others. To show tho difere.s
In the value OF the nuts. in Sano7
takes 1000 to produc a ton o.
5000 or 5000. There are groves
the Philippine Islands where
nuts will make a ton and SON.
San Remon. Of which It takes S<
than $500. Our Is reQ
sending out Information to the I..
pie as t the best nuts to plant 4.
advising them just how to guilty,
| their plantations to get the best crof-
My latest Information from the
lands is that cocoanuts are now p.v-
ing better han anything else. II.
ficials say that the copra towns re-.r
know hard times and that the prs
dente OF n Of them complained T.
| he could get no servants. The cn5.
nuts bring in SO much hat the p.gi.s
will not work.
Sugar and Tobacco.
The Iilipinos are not satisfied +
their tobacco trade with the INIT
States. When the tariff was rene
the expected to swamp us with NJ
Mia cigars and to sell them at IIaNtt
prices. With that view they So.
about 80, ZOO, 900 the first Year. tt.t
the trouble was that they hurrie! thu
manufacture and in their haste Is. !
short filters and bad Wrappers. As
result the cigars got a bad na:.te
and there was no market fer tGct4
5;onle Of them eventually went .-
less than factory prices, and the *
ports the second year were REDUCED
over two-thirds. They are now cua.-
ing up. The Philippine tobacco is eN-
Ccllent and in time it will has" a.
great market here. Last Year Wa
took almost half OF the exports. this
number consumed being about 81
OOO, 600. and the value almost SOON
600.
The Sugar Possibilities.
AS to the crop. that is frcllHt
increasing, but it is still on the eje.-
Of its beginning. Sugar can be grown
throughout the archipelago. and it
{ needs only good machinery ana brains
) to bring up the crop.
Take the Island OF Negroes. Thu
alone has 100. 600 acres in sugaT
which is approximately the same
area as that Of the sugar lands 81
:, the Hawaiian Islands,. which bring il
: moro han $50,000.0OO per annu1n
It is said that Negroes might do tn"
if it were properly cultivated. Tts
director Of the bureau Of agriculture
at Manila says the Negroes land is &
: rich as that Of Hawaii. but that on,
trouble is that the sob is too rich
The cane grows SO fast that tn
, grade Of sugar Is low. They are nov
trying to exhaust the soil By plant
: ing rice with the cane.
5 AS 1t is now. there is but little GOO
O machinery in tho sugar industry
- Ihara ara email Mill 49, 1850
plantations. One province in Luzo
n has 400 sugar growers, who cultiyat
S altogether $4,000 acres. They NAL
only about t~Wo-thirds OF a ton {
It sugar to the ere evaporating tn
It Juice in old castiron kettles set In
furnace and fired with the rerus
l. Of the cane.
n The total export OF the /
>e lands last year were valued at on.
e a little more than 100000.
Improving the Farming.
IS What is needed more than anythir
els in tho Philippines Is scientit
horticulture. There is no richer 50
in the world. and none SO badly farm
ed by a semi-clvilized people. TT
,r government has been trying to in
ID prove the agricultural conditions. al
"a 1t Is gradually lettering them. TT
- lnsular government has a depar
ment OF agriculture. which has be-
j. connected with the bureau Of educ;
70 ton. It has a college In the proyin.
at OF Laguna two miles from Los Bano
h which is now entering upon its Sc
n one year. There Is a bureau
IN agriculture which has It's experime.
H. stations. and farming and ~rdenir
IS now being taught in all the schooI
mere are government %agricultur
farms. where they arc experimental
o. "i.i nc" rice ach1n new piOl
ano o.her 1arm tools. n where tn
are also carrying on stock breed!I
Is. and the study OF methods to preye
- cattle diseases.
The bureau OF education publish
O. an agricultural magazine In Engli
ana and this gives advice
90 20 improved agriculture and inform
d. tlon as to the raising OF all sorts