Show nearly eight mill on in philippines the revised figures of the philippine census have been published by the census bureau and a population of 7 Is given to the ago of this number are civilized or partly so while are wild and uncivilized although not without jojne knowledge of the domestic arts in regard to the public land of the philippine archipelago the report says setting aside the intermediate water space amounting to square miles and considering the land alone the area Is estimated to be llo square miles or 73 acres of this about 12 are private lands and over 61 public lands of the latter oi more are forest lands leaving about available for agriculture under existing laas a homestead of 39 4 acres may be acquired b any citizen of the philippine islands while a corporation can acquire 2 acres |