The Philippine Bureau of Forestry. 609 



forester can easily maintain his health in the Phihppines, while 

 the living practically outdoors (houses so open) all the year 

 round makes it healthier, in many respects, than in the States. 



It is no white man's country. To my mind this is the greatest 

 objection to work in the Philippines, — that the population is 

 almost entirely Malaysian and white people are few. Under the 

 American principle of "the Philippines for the Filipinos," all 

 work is done for the benefit of the little brown brother, which up 

 to the present seems to have had the effect of making him a spoilt 

 "pampered pup," with much less respect for the American than 

 the Spaniard and an exaggerated idea of his own importance and 

 superiority. 



The work of the American forester in the Philippines will con- 

 sist usually in the administration of an insular forest or district 

 comprising probably a million acres, over half forested and 

 seventy-five per cent, public land. He will have a force of about 

 ten rangers and thirty guards under him. He will be even more 

 independent in carrying on his work than the Supervisor in the 

 U. S. Forest Service. He will be responsible for all work done 

 in his district. His most important work will be in training 

 native rangers to take charge of the different ranger districts into 

 which his forest is divided, as it is through his rangers that the 

 forester administers his forest and carries on all his work. Every 

 forester has more or less work in the training of native student 

 assistants in forest work in the field and in the office, and it is a 

 source of satisfaction to him when he leaves the Islands to look 

 back on the number of successful rangers who have received their 

 training under him, whom he leaves, perhaps, to carry on his pet 

 schemes and ideas. 



