;[;[Q THE BUREAU OF SCIENCE 



bulletin has been issued on The Financial Loss Occasioned by 

 Harvesting Unripe Sugar Cane. It is especially recommended 

 that funds be appropriated to this Bureau to enable us to carry 

 on work among the sugar planters as indicated. 



There is need for a model central sugar mill at Iloilo. Iloilo 

 is the center of the sugar industry, and sugar men from many 

 provinces trade there. More hacenderos could be reached here 

 than at any other place. There are many central mills of the 

 smaller type being erected throughout the country, and their 

 owners are absolutely ignorant regarding mills and their control. 

 There is sufficient cane grown in the vicinity of Iloilo to operate 

 a 15-ton central mill during the season, and it could very profit- 

 ably operate in remelting and reboiling low-grade sugars in the 

 idle season, so that no shut down would be necessary and it would 

 be entirely self-supporting. Such an institution would serve as 

 a training school for mill operators. If funds are available, no 

 better investment could be made by the Government than to 

 build and operate such a mill and to use it in showing the people 

 how to save the many thousands of pesos that are being wasted 

 daily because of inexperience and lack of knowledge. 



Cooperative work. — The Bureau of Science has continued to 

 assist the College of Medicine and Surgery and the College of 

 Liberal Arts of the University of the Philippines by detailing 

 some of its best men to give instruction in chemistry, botany, 

 tropical medicine, medical zoology and parasitology, pathology 

 and bacteriology, immunity and serum therapy, disinfection and 

 disinfectants, and medical entomology. We have been glad to 

 do this because it has given to the students of the University 

 not only good instructors, but contact with men engaged in active 

 practical work. The more minute record of the detail of these 

 men has already been given in discussing the work of the various 

 branches of the Bureau. Last year I called attention to the belief 

 by some that men are more rapidly advanced in the University 

 than in the Bureau of Science, and that there should be no dis- 

 crimination between these institutions of the Government and 

 that the appropriation for salaries and wages for the Bureau of 

 Science should be just as liberal as in any of the others. I desire 

 to repeat my recommendation that an appropriation of ?=30,000 

 be added to that of the Bureau of Science in order that parallel 

 salaries may be maintained between this institution and other 

 branches of the Government. 



Former recommendations. — Since no current appropriation 

 bill has been passed for the last three years, no action has been 



