Show how flow would you like to harvest two crops of co corn rn a year as they do in the philippines S I 1 ii q V it im V 4 or U q ia 14 no reader tills this corn was not grown by 0 one ne of our local farmers I 1 it grown in the united states enen eien it was grown in the baroff islands by filipino schoolboys two fine crops ot of corn a year are prof produced teed in the islands the philippines are doing some wonderful things in the agricultural line the philippine government has fine agricultural ri schools throughout the islands and the philippine le legislature IsI liture composed entirely of filipinos is each year making larger and ahr larger er appropriations for this important work the iho staple food of the islands is rice but corn Is coming right along in popular favor it its use was given great impetus in the last ear because of a rice shortage other important philippine crops are hemp sugar cane cocoa cocoanuts nuts coffee tapioca and pineapples lumber Is also an important industry there are hundreds of thousands of acres of 0 land lying idle in the philippines which have a greater area of fertile land than japan this in spite of the fact that the population of the philippines Is while that of japan is around there Is every reason to believe that some day the philippines will have a population as large as that of japan today tha a filipinos pinos are the only christian n people boio in the orient and their young men are working night and day to prepare themselves for the responsibility of citizenship in the philippine republic which they believe to be near at hand |