OCR Text |
Show Rubber Acreage Now in Philippines Unlimited According to Manuel U Quezon, former president of the Philippine senate, there are now about 100,000 acres ot land under development In the Islands, and about half of It Is producing rubber. He declares that there Is almost unlimited acreage which can be devoted to rubber growing, grow-ing, as soil and climatic conditions are Ideal for that Industry. Be thinks It will be only a matter of time before the Philippines will assume a controlling control-ling Influence on the development of the rubber Industry, and that the Islands can be used for Its manufacture manufac-ture as well when the demand from the Orient becomes great enough to warrant It. |