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This publication owes its origin to .the increasing interest in Phil- 

 ippine sugar both here and elsewhere. A number of causes have com- 

 bined to keep the sugar industry of the Islands in the same backward 

 condition it was fifteen to twenty years ago. The Bureau of Agriculture 

 has had charge of La Gran j a Modelo, the old Spanish sugar experi- 

 ment station in Negros, since 1903, but has been without adequate means 

 or equipment to carry on satisfactory lines of field or mill work. While 

 the political future of the Islands remains uncertain and tariff ques- 

 tions relating to Philippine products imported into the United States 

 continue a subject for debate, the local Government here can not ac- 

 tively encourage the development of the sugar industry along the lines 

 it most deserves. 



The Director of Agriculture was ordered to Washington, D. C, in No- 

 vember, 1905, to assist in presenting the arguments in favor of admitting 

 Philippine sugar and other products into the United States free of duty, 

 but the mission failed at that time. The Pa}Tie Tariff Bill was passed 

 by Congress in August, 1909, and it was thought would greatly stim- 

 ulate the sugar industry of these Islands. The Director of Agricul- 

 ture was on leave in the United States at that time and received 

 instructions to proceed to Louisiana and the Hawaiian Islands to make 

 a brief investigation of sugar growing and manufacturing there. Brief 

 accounts of this trip were published in the Philippine Agricultural 

 Review for May and June, 1910. Plans were made during this trip 

 for issuing a publication on "The Sugar Industry of the Philippine 

 Islands." The Bureau of Agriculture has during several years pub- 

 lished a number of general articles on sugar and endeavored through 

 the columns of the Review to keep its readers posted on crop and market 

 conditions. 



In the latter part of 1908 the Bureau of Science sent Mr. Herbert 

 S. Walker, a sugar chemist, to the Island of Negros where he spent 

 the entire milling season of 1908-9 studying the sugar industry there. 

 The results of his investigations were published by the Bureau of 

 Science, after the return of the Director of Agriculture from Louisiana 

 and the Hawaiian Islands, in 1910, under the title, "The Sugar In- 

 dustry in the Island of Negros." It has proven of particular interest 

 as it is the only treatise dealing entirely with sugar which has been 



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