COCO-NUT PLANTING IN THE 

 PHILIPPINES. 1 



OF all the coco-nut centres this is the one 

 that we have heard the most about of late years, 

 thanks to the Bureau of Agriculture at Manila, 

 and to the writings of Barrett and Dean 

 Worcester, Lyon, Copeland, and others. 



Owing to the higher prices, and more 

 general demand for coco-nut products, former 

 pasture lands and waste places have been, or 

 are now being, planted up with coco-nut palms 

 in the Philippines, as has been the case in 

 Malaya with rubber. Some of the estates, 

 the Lapoc Plantation Company, at Sulu, for 

 instance, have planted Ceara rubber with coco- 

 nuts, or rather as there were 1,000 palms to 

 15,000 Ceara trees, one should say that the 

 coco-nuts were planted with rubber. Some of 

 the estates also report the planting of such 

 catch-crops as ground nuts, tapioca, maize, 

 &c. but these are said not to pay, except on 

 paper, though, be it noted, in some cases they 



1 There are five interesting illustrations of copra- 

 drying in the Philippines, but these we have included 

 in the section on Copra. 



