iO4 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



on a coco-nut plantation in Mindoro, where 

 the trees are set out in straight lines and 

 at proper distances. I noted that the ground 

 had been ploughed between the trees on one 

 side of the highway, while on the other 

 side there had been no ploughing, but the 

 grass had been kept very short by cattle 

 grazing on it. The trees around which the 

 ground had been ploughed looked decidedly 

 more flourishing, and were bearing more 

 heavily than were those palms where the 

 ground had not been ploughed." 



On the question of yields Mr. Worcester, 

 in his pamphlet, goes to others for help as 

 follows: "According to a (Philippine) Bureau 

 of Agriculture bulletin, an acre of properly 

 planted coco-nuts should produce about 2,000 

 nuts per year, or 50 nuts per tree. The same 

 authority states that trees abound which by 

 actual count average annually 50 nuts per 

 palm ; that at Sarabaya trees average 60 

 nuts per year over hundreds of acres, and 

 that this condition will be found to prevail in 

 Pangasinan, La Laguna, Cebu, Panay, Min- 

 danao, and wherever trees are grown on a 

 generous scale. It is further stated that per- 

 fectly authentic cases are reported of as many 

 as 128 nuts being taken from a single tree in 

 a year. 



" One tree at Zamboanga, the owner claims, 

 never produced less than 200 nuts annually 

 during a period of twenty-three years. This 



