| Show nearly eight million in philippine philippines the revised figures of the philippine census have been published by the census bureau and a population of ag la is given to the ar chipel ago of this number are civilized or partly no while ara are wild and uncivilized although not without somo some knowledge of the domestic arta arts in i agard to the public land of the philippine archipelago the tho report bays says setting aside tho the intermediate water space amounting to square miles and considering the th land alone the area Is estimated to be square miles or acres of this about are arc private land lands and over public landa lands of the latter oi ot more are forest landa lands leaving about available for agriculture under existing laws a IL homestead of ot 39 64 54 acres may be acquired by any citizen of tho the lalands islands hilo a corporation can acquire 2530 2630 arres acres |
