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fully in the Peninsula have done little good in proportion 

 to the work and money expended on them. For such 

 thinkers the following extract from the Philippine Agri- 

 cultural review is here inserted as giving the opinions of 

 representatives of the nation which has taken the lead in 

 agricultural work above every other. 



Speaking of the Kuala Kangsar show he says "The 

 account of these fairs and exhibitions in the Federated 



Malay States show how far in advance of us these 



countries are in Agricultural development and progress. 

 Such exhibitions from the various parts of a province, state 

 or island stimulate local pride in their agricultural pro- 

 gress and these in turn create a desire for better knowl- 

 edge of agriculture as well as better business, and better 

 means of communication which perhaps are the greatest 

 needs for elevating the standard of living in the country in 

 these islands and for encouraging the organisation of the 

 people of the country into guilds, unions or granges for 

 promoting the different lines of agricultural work in 

 which they are interested. It is hoped that the bill recently 

 introduced into the assembly providing for the holding of 

 provincial industrial and agricultural exhibitions in these 

 Islands (Philippines) or a bill that will meet with the 

 present needs of the country will become a law and that 

 it will meet with a hearty response and its provisions be 

 immediately taken advantage of by the people of the pro- 

 vinces/ ' 



Tims it will be seen that the shrew T d American has a 

 high enough opinion of the value of these exhibitions to 

 push forward a bill for following our example. 



RUB BEE AREAS AND PRODUCTION. 



It would be interesting to know how a corespondent, 

 writing to a contemporary, arrived at the conclusion that 

 the output of rubber from the present planted area in the 

 Middle East (which he gives with comparative accuracy at 

 520,000 acres) will aggregate 140,000 tons by 1914, writes 

 the "Financier." If 14,000 tons are obtained in that year 

 from the present planted area no one will have much cause 

 to grumble, and there are those competent to express an 

 opinion on this point who put the output five years hence 

 at just about double that amount. By that time one of two 

 things will have happened. Either the world's consumption 

 of rubber will be enormously increased, and available sup- 

 plies will be absorbed as they come forward or, through in- 



