296 GIBBS, AGCAOILI, AND SHILLING. 
Concerning the nutritive value of balut it can be said that 
there is little change from the calorific value of the fresh egg, 
and it seems probable that the digestibility is only slightly 
altered. 
LOCUSTS. 
Locusts occasionally devastate sections of the Philippine 
Islands, leaving nothing for the grazing animals which often 
die for lack of food. Some tribes highly prize these insects as 
articles of food, while other inhabitants do not eat them at all. 
Locusts occur throughout the Philippines, and sometimes the 
numbers assume astonishing proportions. A severe outbreak 
of these pests is now (September, 1912) at its height in the 
Islands of Cebu, Leyte, Bohol, Samar, Negros, Masbate, and 
northern Mindanao, and much damage is being done to agricul- 
tural interests. 
TABLE XVI.—Analysis of 300 locusts (genus Acrydium). 
Grams. 
Total weight 500.00 
Average weight of each locust 1.67 
Edible portion, body and head 405.00 
Waste, legs, and wings 95.00 
Constituent. Per cent. 
Edible portion (percentage of whole) 81.00 
Total solids 40.39 
Moisture (loss at 100°) 59.61 
Protein (N X 6.25) 24.13 
Fat 7.89 
Ash 1.79 
Undetermined 6.58 
40.39 
BIHON, MISUA, AND MIQUE. 
The Chinese in Manila make from flour several food products 
which resemble vermicelli, macaroni, and similar foreign foods. 
The places of manufacture, numbering about 12 in Manila, are 
all small and the apparatus crude. The business is usually 
owned by a Chinaman who employs as laborers a few of his 
countrymen and some Filipinos, and lives with his workmen 
and family in the same building, often in the same room where 
the food product is prepared. The best known of these foods 
are used quite generally throughout China, and in Manila are 
called by the Chinese names bihon, misua, and mique. A num- 
ber of factories have been investigated and samples obtained and 
