Not So Keen to Cultivate on Small Holdings Manila, Dec, 8.
The average Philippine farmer has given up the idea of growing rubber on small land holdings, Judging from the utter lack of demand for rubber seedling for some time, according to Dr. Stanton Youngberg, director of the Bureau of Agriculture.
"The fever has subsided and the patient is now well on the road to normality," declared Dr. Young-berg.
Duo to the absence of demand for the rubber seedling Dr. Youngbers says the disposal of about 1,600,000 of the new crop and several hundred thousand of the old crop has become a problem to the Burest of Agriculture, He states that in pro porting as interest in rubber growing wanes the production of copra attriiets attention and that the increased acreage planted to coconuts bea lout this statement, "The tiresome process of tapping rubber trees for the latex day in and day out 365 days a year does not appeal to the average Philippine pariner,' declared Dr. Young-berg. "Besides, a rubber planter cannot begin to tap his trees until they are five years old. Considering the fact that the average age of a rubber tree is 25 years, and that in the 20th year the productivity of a tree begins to decline, it is easy to sce why a small farmer does not take well to rubber grow Pmavetenta, Dee. 21:.—It is announced that Cambridge will be represented at the Pennsylvania, University relay races which will be The boat reached one side of the of the department ashore and team will be. eaptatined "by held in April, 1927. The Cambridiee Island where the party landed, and ' afloat, hurdler, Lord Burghley.—Ruter.
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