tented themselves with planting a few scattering bushes, which are left practically without care, to be swamped by brush and preyed upon by insects. Proper harvesting and curing methods are not employed. The fruits are torn from the bushes, injuring the bark and leaving the way open for the attacks of injurious insect pests.

An especially fine coffee is grown in the mountain regions of Benguet and Bontoc and in the province of Lepanto. The bushes yield heavy crops and the unhulled coffee at present sells readily in Manila at $35 Mexican per cavan, for consumption in these islands or for shipment to Spain. Coffee bushes come to bearing in Benguet in three years. There is no region in the United States which has a more healthful or delightful climate than is afforded by the Benguet highlands, where a white man can perform heavy field labor without excessive fatigue or injury to his health.

It is almost impossible to secure in Manila the milk needed by the sick. Fresh milk sells for 75 cents Mexican per wine quart. A dairy on the outskirts of the city, with 95 animals, including several bulls, was netting $5,000 Mexican per month when the animals were attacked by rinderpest.

Fresh meats to the value of $609,664

per annum, exclusive of that used by the Army and Navy, are being imported each year into Manila. There is no reason why in time the islands should not supply this meat. The pastures of Benguet, Lepanto, and Bontoc afford one vast well-watered cattle range, where improved breeds of horned cattle could be successfully introduced, while in the lowlands there are vast stretches of grazing lands suitable for raising cattle and carabaos. The latter are at present worth $150 to $300 Mexican per head in the Manila market. Properly conducted cattle ranches will certainly yield very handsome returns.

Excellent native oranges are produced in the province of Batangas, in the Calamianes Islands, and elsewhere. The trees, which are often large and vigorous, seldom receive any care, nor has any systematic effort been made to improve the quality of the fruit, which sells readily at a good price. There is every reason to believe that improved. citrus fruits can be successfully introduced.

Numerous new industries, such as raising of vanilla in the lowlands and the cultivation of fruits and vegetables peculiar to the temperate zone in Benguet, ought, if properly conducted, to result profitably.

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Na cablegram to the Secretary of War dated April 15, Governor Taft announced his arrival at Benguet, which he described as follows: Great province. This is only 150 miles from Manila, with air as bracing as Adirondacks or Murray Bay. Only pines and grass lands. Temperature this hottest month in the Philippines, in my cottage porch at 3 in the after

noon, 68° F. Fires are necessary night and morning."

Benguet is a little province about. the size of Rhode Island. It consists almost entirely of high mountains, some of them reaching to 7,000 feet, and resembles an American park in the variety and beauty of its scenery. The elevated tablelands of the province Governor Taft plans to make a health

THE IGORROTE TOWN OF CABAYAN, BENGUET, LUZÓN

Houses surrounded by coffee bushes.

No. 15.-Some of the finest coffee in the world is grown in these valleys by the Igorrotes.