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THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



A. Chemical and Geological Sciences 

 AND the Industries 



Vol. XI MAY, 1916 No. 3 



SOME VEGETABLES GROWN IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ^ 

 By Francisco Agcaoili 



(From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I.) 



The question of food and food supply is a matter that early 

 concerns the minds of a people no matter how primitive they may 

 be, and the degree to which they have solved this problem is 

 a fair measure of the stage of civilization at which they have 

 arrived. When a majority of the inhabitants of a country is 

 necessarily employed in the cultivation of nurture crops, no high 

 state of civilization has been attained nor is it possible to attain 

 such a state until a radical change has been made in the food 

 supply of that country. 



This is not meant to imply that food alone controls the civili- 

 zation of a country, for one can readily conceive of a state 

 enjoying the greatest supply of food with the least necessary 

 effort in the obtaining of this supply and yet falling far short of 

 being a highly civilized community. But the converse is more 

 nearly always true, that a nation must have leisure from the har- 

 rowing toil in the field for mere existence, in order that other 

 fields of labor may be developed and that individuals may have 

 time to cultivate the graces of the mind and body. Consequently 

 the preparation of some fairly concentrated food is needed to 

 bring about this condition — the condition where man need not 

 devote a large proportion of his time to the merely routine task of 

 preparing and taking nourishment. 



However, this is but one phase of the result of eating an ill- 



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