ISBN: 9781130527599

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 514 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 514 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.0in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: . . . cause of the lack of progress in agriculture in the Philippines, but t believe that this is not the only cause, but rather that the evils of cockflghting and gambling, in which money is thrown away and the energy so necessary for farming work and full moral and material development is misspent, are responsible therefor. By correcting this evil, which deflects the labor of many useful men and is the cause of thefts and the ruin and desolation of entire families, there can be no doubt that agriculture, principally, would gain a great deal. Hence the necessity, in my opinion, of more rigorous measures for the repression of gambling and cockflghting. With reference to the latter, the licensing of same and the care and training of fighting cocks should be at a rate having reference to the classification of the municipalities, that might be placed, for example, at a minimum of 1300 a year for municipalities of the fourth class, and of 11 per year for each fighting cock; in those of the third class, 1400 and 12; in those of the second class, 1500 and 13; and in those of the first class, t600 and F4. INDUSTRY. Three steam hulling and cleaning machines are in operation, the same as last year; 2 stills for the distillation and rectification of nipa wine, and 100 factories for the making of the said wine; 1 new sawmill; 2 steam and 30 carabao-power mills with wooden cylinders for crushing sugar cane; several salt works and some cocoanut-oil factories operating under primitive native methods; and 1 brickmaking establishment are also in operation. Furniture of all kinds is manufactured from narra, camagon, palo-maria, lanote, cane, and rattan; baskets of all sorts are made of rattan and cane; mats, hats, and pocket cases of buri; hats of cane, nito, and the leaves of th. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<