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Our  salvation  is  to  have  other  things  than  sugar,  and  I hail 
with  great  pleasure  and  with  great  anticipation  the  experi- 
ments that  are  being  made  in  such  directions,  and  I think 
that  some  of  the  help  that  we  in  the  Legislature  can  give,  as 
far  as  we  are  able  to  with  the  means  that  can  be  spared, 
is  to  assist  the  Federal  Experiment  Station,  and  to  assist  in 
the  matter  of  a hydrographic  survey — that  is,  the  water  sur- 
vey; and  the  soil  survey,  and  the  experiments  with  products 
which  will  have  world’s  markets,  products  which  a man  with 
but  a few  acres  and  small  capital  can  engage  in.  The  most  in- 
depedent  man  in  this  world  is  the  man  that  owns  his  own  land 
and  makes  his  living  on  it.  He  is  a king.  He  is  a sovereign. 
A man  whose  living  depends  upon  a salary  or  wrages  is  some 
one’s  servant ; but  the  man  who  owns  his  own  few  acres  and  is 
able  to  produce  enough  to  support  himself  and  his  family  is 
a king,  he  is  a sovereign,  he  can  defy  anybody  as  long  as  he 
pays  his  taxes  and  has  no  debts.  It  is  a thing  that  we  must 
work  for  in  this  Territory  more  and  more.  There  is  no  use  in 
bringing  small  farmers  here  unless  there  is  something  that 
they  can  produce  at  a profit;  unless  there  is  something  that  a 
man  with  a few  acres  of  land  and  small  means  can  make  a 
living  on,  and  so  I hail  the  work  which  men  like  Dr.  Smith  and 
Dr.  Wilcox  are  doing. 
The  Chairman.  This  concludes  the  speaking.  The  Senate 
and  House  desire  to  extend  thanks  to  the  Governor  and  the 
other  gentlemen  for  their  remarks. 
THE  PHILIPPINE  JOURNAL  OF  SCIENCE. 
The  Hawaiian  Forester  is  in  regular  receipt  of  Part  C of  the 
Philippine  Journal  of  Science,  published  by  the  Bureau  of  Science 
of  the  Government  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  and  which  is  devoted 
to  the  botany  of  the  region  represented.  The  December  number 
of  Volume  III  is  just  to  hand  and  contains  a number  of  valuable 
articles.  New  Genera  and  Species  of  Bornean  Ferns,  by  E.  B. 
Copeland,  is  supplemented  by  excellent  illustrations  of  several  in- 
teresting specimens.  The  paper  on  the  Philippine  species  of 
Garcinia  is  of  interest  as  it  should  help  in  the  proper  identifica- 
tion of  some  of  garden  species — the  determination  of  which  is 
often  obscure. 
The  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Agriculture,  Manila,  announces 
the  publication  of  a new  monthly  journal,  “The  Philippine  Agri- 
cultural Review,”  which  will  be  illustrated,  and  published  in  two 
editions,  English  and  Spanish.  The  new  journal  will  be  a popular 
serial  on  general  agricultural  and  will  contain  reports  on  agricul- 
tural conditions  in  different  parts  of  the  Philippine  Islands, 
articles  on  tropical  agriculture,  and  other  material  of  interest  to 
field  industries. 
