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to encourage the shipment of fresh fish inland. Educational 

 campaigns are conducted by the Government, to show the people 

 how best to cook and serve different kinds of fish, with a view- 

 to increasing the consumption of fish, just as the Philippine 

 Government, through its Bureau of Education, has conducted 

 corn-cooking campaigns to encourage the more general use of 

 corn as food. In traveling through Germany, one is constantly 

 impressed with the degree to which the people use beans and 

 peas as a substitute for meat, and the ruggedness and efficiency 

 of the German people cannot be questioned. 



The Japanese have been obliged to meet the same problem 

 that presents itself to the people of the Philippines for solution. 

 Rice is the principal crop of Japan, and polished rice is the 

 principal diet of the Japanese, but along with rice they consume 

 large quantities of barley, beans, and peas, as well as much fish 

 and poultry. With the exception of barley, all the means the 

 Japanese have employed so successfully are available in the Phil- 

 ippines. There is no reason why the poultry industry may not 

 be as highly developed in the Philippines as it has been in Japan. 

 Unfortunately, no legume has yet been found that is to the Phil- 

 ippines what the soy bean is to Japan, what the white navy 

 bean and the cowpea are to the States, or what the lupines and 

 lentils are to the Germans ; but the Bureau of Agriculture and 

 the College of Agriculture are both at work on this problem and 

 there is every reason to expect that beans and peas will soon 

 be found or developed that are well suited to the Islands and 

 that are relished by the people. In the meantime, the Bureau 

 of Education is busy teaching the people to eat a greater variety 

 of food and to increase as rapidly as possible the use of legumes 

 in their dietary. 



INCREASING THE FISH SUPPLY 



Fish is already an important part of the diet of all classes of 

 Filipinos. It is not certain that the Philippines have as exten- 

 sive fishery resources as have some other countries, but it is 

 certain that the fishery resources of the Islands have not been 

 developed. Since fish will not keep long in a warm climate, and 

 since cold-storage facilities are not generally available in the 

 Philippines, it is essential that the fishing indu.stry be so devel- 

 oped that it will not be subject to interruption by any except 

 the most violent storms and then only for the period of great- 

 est intensity. Therefore, the fresh watei:s of the Islands should 

 be kept stocked as fully as possible, fish farming should be 

 encouraged, and deep-sea as well as shoal fishing should be 



