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But the increased earninj?s of the Philippine people should 

 not come from increasing the area under the plow. The cul- 

 tivated land must be made to yield a larger harvest. The Jap- 

 anese farmer, for example, produces P2, 000,000, 000 worth of 

 v.ealth a year from 14,000,000 acres of land, and the Filipino 

 farmer produces only 1*200,000,000 worth of products from 

 7,000,000 acres. From twice the area the Japanese farmer pro- 

 duces tenfold the wealth that the Filipino farmer does. 



If the sugar planters of the Philippine Islands harvested as 

 much sugar to the acre as do the planters of Java, the Philip- 

 pines, without increasing the area in cane, would be the leading 

 cane sugar producing country in the world, Cuba alone excepted. 



If the rice growers of the Philippines obtained as high acre 

 yields as do the rice growers of Japan or the United States, 

 instead of buying from India and Japan one-fourth of the rice 

 consumed in the Islands, the Philippines would be the third 

 largest rice-exporting country in the world. 



If the acre yield of corn in the Philippines equal that of 

 the United States or Japan, the Philippine Islands would have 

 grain enough to support a larger pork and poultry industry than 

 has either Canada or Australia. 



These are among the possibilities of the Islands with less 

 than half the reasonably good agricultural land in cultivation. 

 When all the land is utilized to the limit of its producing power, 

 when the fisheries, manufactures, and commerce of the Islands 

 are developed, enough food and wealth will be produced to sup- 

 port comfortably 40,000,000 people, or as many people as are 

 in France or in the United Kingdom of Great Britain. 



THE BUSINESS OF THE PHILIPPINES 



Last year the value of the purchases of the people of the Phil- 

 ippines amounted to ^=5,250,000 more than the value of their 

 sales. A study of the business of the Islands reveals many 

 wastes. For example, 9,000,000 pounds of raw sugar were sold 

 from the Islands at an average price of 4 centavos a pound, all 

 of which, or its equivalent, was bought back again as refined 

 sugar at 10 centavos a pound. What was sold, therefore, for 

 ?360,000 was bought back for f=900,000. It cost approximately 

 ^=140,000 to refine this sugar. The balance, ?400,000, was ab- 

 sorbed in transportation charges and profits to people who, for 

 the most part, live in other countries. 



One may ride for days through grass up to the saddle skirts 

 without seeing a herd of cattle or horses. Meanwhile, the peo- 

 ple of the Philippines are paying the farmers of Australia and 



