278 PHILIPPINE BAMBOOS 
Ranger Mabesa has made counts of the number of shoots 
produced in one season on two areas of Schizostachyum lu- 
mampao, each area consisting of 100 square meters. The two 
areas together contained 340 canes and produced 35 shoots, 
or 10 per cent of the original number. All canes were cut from 
two smaller-sized plots in May, 1917, and the number of new 
canes counted in November, 1917. These two plots originally 
contained 221 canes. After the clearing they sent up a large 
number of shoots about the size of a lead pencil and 10 usable 
canes, which is only 4.5 per cent of the original number. This 
would indicate that it requires some years for this bamboo to 
regain its original density when once completely cut-over. 
COST OF HARVESTING AND PRICES 
Data on the cost of harvesting were collected during the year 
1916 on the College of Agriculture farm at Los Banos, Laguna. 
One man was employed for a total of 91 days, during which 
time 1,000 canes of Bambusa spinosa were harvested, an average 
of 11 canes per day. The cost of labor was 80 centavos per day, 
making the total cost of harvesting 1,000 canes 72.80 pesos or 
an average per cane of 7.28 centavos. In the same locality 
these canes sold at 4 pesos per dozen. 
Bamboo sold in Manila is floated down the river from the 
country behind or across Manila Bay. In Manila the present 
prices for canes in the river are: First-class canes, 32 pesos 
per hundred; second-class canes, 27 pesos per hundred; and 
third-class canes, from 18 to 20 pesos per hundred. The cost 
of floating bamboo to Manila is very small, as rafts containing 
large numbers of canes can be operated by a very few men. 
