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planted with many hundreds of thousands of 

 trees. They are run on the most modern lines 

 and under up-to-date methods. To ensure 

 success and increase the yields, costly experi- 

 ments have been and are being carried on 

 in connection with scientific manuring, and in 

 some instances the attempted eradication of 

 the lalang and buffalo grass has cost fortunes 

 with little appreciable and beneficial results. 



The Germans have taken their thoroughness 

 and painstaking, methodical ways with them to 

 the South Pacific Islands, and they are now 

 slowly reaping the benefit in their steadily 

 increasing exports of produce to the Fatherland 

 and elsewhere. 



As shown by Mr. O. W. Barrett in the 

 section devoted to the Philippines, those islands, 

 as indigenous producers of coco-nuts, and con- 

 taining large areas of small lands producing 

 them, stand " right first " in the coco-nut world. 

 On this account we feel that a table of the cost 

 of planting up coco-nut lands out there is worth 

 studying, and certainly deserves attention, and 

 have therefore included very full particulars in 

 the Philippine section, for when the natives 

 settle down to work, the islands will offer 

 magnificent opportunities for agriculture and 

 commerce, whether it be rubber, coco-nuts, or 

 the old-time manila hemp. With modern 

 methods and machinery, plus the Americaniza- 

 tion of the Filipino, anyone and everyone 

 interested in coco-nuts must pay the most careful 



