. Philippine life in town and country. ions arefavourable to the small producer; and yet, evenhere, there is no question but that the productwould be improved in the hands of intelligentoverseers of large plantations, with a betterchoice of plants and soil, more careful use andnourishment of the soil, and, most of all, the ex-ercise of greater care and better methods in thestripping of the fibre. The carelessness in theserespects, and not infrequently the deliberatemixing of inferior hemp with the superior grades,have given the Philippine product a bad name oflate, and set the fibre manufactur
. Philippine life in town and country. ions arefavourable to the small producer; and yet, evenhere, there is no question but that the productwould be improved in the hands of intelligentoverseers of large plantations, with a betterchoice of plants and soil, more careful use andnourishment of the soil, and, most of all, the ex-ercise of greater care and better methods in thestripping of the fibre. The carelessness in theserespects, and not infrequently the deliberatemixing of inferior hemp with the superior grades,have given the Philippine product a bad name oflate, and set the fibre manufacturers of the worldto cultivating other markets, the products ofwhich are naturally not equal to the Philippinefibre. Rice, grown so largely as a food-productfor home consumption (and of late not in suf-ficient amount for the home market), is anothercrop wherein the small farmer has thus far hadthe field mostly to himself. Once again, it is aquestion if the true economic development of theislands will not favour concentration of land and. Typical Filipino Community 89 supervision in the production of this , too, the dried cocoanut, the exportation ofwhich, especially to the oil factories of France,has been growing quite notably in recent years,is a line of production in which the tendency willbe toward larger holdings. The same is true ofcoffee^cacao, and indigo, for the present of littleimportance, if the Philippines are once more toassume importance as producers of these crops,which have lost their former status as Philippineexports largely through (defective methods ofcultivation and through adulteration, coupled, inthe case of coffee, with the ravages of an insect-pesti Corn is a product which may be muchmore generally and extensively cultivated forhome consumption, relieving the islands of thenecessity of importing rice while turning to moreprofitable crops, and at the same time affordingthe advantage of a greater diversity of diet. Italternates with tobacco in the
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