Manila, Feb. 3.
'What is regarded by the officials important step in the pre-Faration of the development of the ibber industry in' the Philippine to be taken at. once, according to an announcement ma today by Dr. Stanton, Youngberg, Acting Secretary. of "Agriculture, He stated that the Government had decided to establish an agricultural experimental station exclusively for rubber culture, either in Mindanao or some other point in the southern part of the archipelago where rainfall is more or less' evenly distributed, Dr. Youngberg said the Bureau of Agriculture would undertake campaign to encourage the people to plant rubber in the populous regions where the soil had been found to be adapted to rubber grow. ing. The bureau is utilizing an appropriation of 65,000 pesos made by the last legislature for distributing at cost rubber seeds and seedlings among small farmers in the region where it is known that rubber trees flourish, A company has just been organized in Manila for the development of lumbang and rubber in Rizal Province, 2 few miles from, Manila, It is planned to plant 600 acres of lumbang trees and 5 aeres of rubber as a test to determine whether the climate and soil a suitable to rubber growing in this Lumbang oil is obtained from the nuts of this tree and is said to valuable ingredient in the mi and the manufacture of paints, soap and candles. The residue after the oil has been abstracted ix used oan fertilizer and ig suid to contain far more nitrogen than coconut oil cake, The trees begin to bear fruit gen-orally about the axe of five years,—Reuter's Pacific Service,
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