Experimental Plantation Near Manila, Manila, Nov, 20, The planting of 10,000. rubber seedlings as an experiment has started in the Los Banes plantation of the Bureau of Forestry, some 50 miles distant from Manila, The plantation, which is at the foot of Int. Makiling, is said to possess the climatic conditions suitable to rubber culture and officials of the Bureau of Forestry are optimistic about the results of the experiment, which, they believe, will lead to the growing of rubber on a large scale, Three bills were introduced in the late legislature looking to amendment of the land laws of the Philippine Islands in such a manner as to permit the leasing or purchase, of large tracts of land which would be devoted to rubber growing, but all failed of passage, except' one authorizing the Government to spend $82,600 for the purchase of tuber seeds to be distributed to farmers at cost, At present no individual or corporation can acquire more 2,00 acres of land. The bil which were placed befor the [legislature provided for the leasing of 50,000 acres or more to a cor poration for a period of 25 years with the privilege of renewal at the end of the period. Those res~ sponsible for the bill lai with such liberal terms large cor-parations would be able to produce rubber profitably and that large ing} sums of money would be invested fu the project Rubber growing in the southern islands of the archipelago is now, carried on successfully, though on small scale, only " few thousand tons being produced annually Basilan Island and in Mindunao—
Reuter's Pacific Service.
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