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It is known through all parts of the
world that the soil of the Philippines
is very rich and fertile. Tet unmeas
ured lands are lying idle In the con
stant bright sunshine and never tilled,
and only shrubs and useless grasses
grow on them.
This is due to many reasons, one of
which is the lack of good roads. When
there are good roads through all parts
of our country, the farmer will be
very glad to begin to wake up his
sleeping land, because in the first
place he can transport his products
to the market easily, writes a Filipino
student, in Farm, Stock and Home.
From this fact he can obtain always
much profit. When the roads are bad
the farmer and the animal can hardly
carry instruments to work with, and
they get tired easily, but where good
roads are built this is not true, for
then he and his beast can work very
fast.
During the rainy season the pigs on
the farms should not be permitted to
dig the roads in order to get food,
for this causes destruction. As we
already know, when the road from
the farm to the town is good, the
farmer can. haul his products to the
market easily, in the rainy season
as well as in the dry season.
Merchants are also very dilligent to
go to his farm to buy his vegetables.
Thus he can obtain always much gain.
When the good roads have coaxed the
farmer to produce more than he did
previously, then there will certainly
be many merchants to carry on com
merce, and steamers to carry said
products to every part of the globe
and therefore the country to which
these farmers belong will be in pros
perity and progress.
It is the usual talk of the common
farmer that one reason why he does
not like to raise many vegetables is
that other people steal them at night
and this makes him lazy to work.
Sometimes they steal also his instru
ments and his animals, but if there
are good roads, those who keep order
can travel fast to stop flight, to catch
bandits and to do away with all kinds
of public annoyances, and the rob
bers are afraid to steal any more lest
they are seen and captured.
In general the typical land In the
Philippines that is already under cul
tivation is as well developed as
j cultivated land ought to be. We may
say that it Is yet in the beginning of
real cultivation. It is the usual prac
tice through all parts of this country to
follow the so-called "one-crop" sys
tem of farming. When rice is the
principal product, other crops are not
raised: shen hemp, other crops are
neglected. This is a very miserable
method of farming because when rice
or hemp fail to grow the people suf
fer very ranch from hunger, directly
or indirectly.
"Diversified farming"" is just the
method that the Filipino must put at
once into practice. On account of thi3
fact he determines to raise more
crops than he has ever raised before,
in order to get more profit. With
his gains he can buy better instru
ments and carabos for his farm. Now
he can raise as many crops as he de
sires. First of all he plants rice, after rice
is harvested he can plant one-half his
land with mangoes and the other half
with corn. After that he can raise
many kinds of vegetables and so on,
keeping on planting and planting.
This process of diversified farming 13
very advantageous to the farmer as
well as to the land itself. To the
farmer, he can get always much profit. .
his chief aim. To the land, its soil
becomes better and richer, consequent
ly more productive. For this reason
the farmer is now very dilgent to
raise many crops.
No person can obtain much wealth
from his land unless he guards it. and
takes care of his crops. Therefore
the farmer wants to live permanently
on his farm.
Practice declares that the success
of the plants to grow, depends main
ly on water. So irrigation is needed
always in every time. Irrigation is
needed to soften the land. The farmer
has often a heavy thought how he caa
bring water from the river to his
crops.
Many young men now are about to
finish courses in agriculture. These
young men are the realization of the
Filipinos hopes. These are the farm
ers of modern times. They will in
not many years more set the examples
and others will follow, seeing that the
importance of the Phillipines and her
rank among the nations in the future
depends upon the strength of ih-a
farmers arms. Scientific methods of
fanning will be employed. A great
rivalry will spring up among the far
mers. This little word "rivalry"" wi!l
be the means to hustle the country
onto the platform of success and pro
claim to the world that the Philip
pines is worthy the name "Pearl of
the Orient."
Very soon modern Instruments will
be in use by all, then more land can
be cultivated and bigger and better
crops harvested. Bigger and bettei
crops mean bigger and better money,
and so my country will reach a higher
stage of usefulness and happiness and
contribute the greatest possible ser-r-ice
to the world.
Enjoyed His Work.
The late Charles A Dana was as
busy in old age as when a young man.
He was at his desk up to his last ill
ness. "How can you stand the infernal
grind?" he was asked. "Grind!" he
exclaimed, "I huve nothing but fun."
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