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in a few years' time. It may be anticipated that 

 the United States will begin to buy instead of 

 being in a position to sell such products." 



Meanwhile, the same authority explains that 

 in the United Kingdom the importation of hog 

 products decreased from ,17,894,100, in 1908, 

 to ^"16,222,000 in 1910, whilst the home 

 supplies also show a downward tendency. In 

 face of these two large consuming centres 

 haying come to this state, with every sign of 

 producing less, and needing more every year, 

 our readers must own that, apart from their 

 local demand, hog-raising, where it can be 

 carried out on coco-nut estates, has a splendid 

 future before it. Mr. Douglas's article, which 

 appeared in the January, 1911, issue of the 

 Agricultural Journal^ goes fully into the 

 question of breeds and crosses, but, of course, 

 not specially for the Tropics. 



Regarding cattle-raising in the Philippines, 

 the production of forage crops, principally 

 Guinea-grass and sorghum, has been very 

 satisfactory on the Government stock farm, 

 and the cost of maintaining the live stock 

 thereby greatly reduced ; with poonac to add 

 to this, the matter of fodder generally can be 

 looked upon as settled. Whilst importing 

 bulls, even cows and hogs, to improve local 

 strains, animals are now being raised on, and 

 can generally be purchased from, the Bureau 

 Farms, which are now raising and selling to 

 the public, horses, cattle, caraboas, milch 



