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advisability of increasing the variety of food for local consumption. It is responsible for enlarging the area of land planted
with corn and for a wider appreciation of corn as a food. During the third year, there was a decided growth in all lines.
The campaign was so extensive and involved so many features
that no detailed reports can be given. However, the following
statistics will be of interest:

1912 1913 1914
Popular corn demonstrations held --- —-------------------------------- 235 367 917
Market demonstrations held --- —----------- ------------------------ 8 43 71
Girls taught corn recipes --- -., --- —----------------------- 6,660 8, 835 11, 593
People attending corn demonstrations ------------------ ----- 420,702 498, 833 504,318
People patronizing market demonstrations --- —------ 603 28,081 24,193
People served at corn demonstrations --- —--------- 120 25,146 39, 283
1 -CORN PRODUCTION.
[Bureau of Agriculture figures.]
1912 1913 1914
Planted hectars --- —..-. ---. --- —-------------- 302, 506 383,709 421,309
Harvested cavans --- —-------- - 2,485,396 4,339,339 6,266,148
Average yield per hectar.. - 8.2 11.3 14.87
The corn campaign will be continued in a modified form
directly under division superintendents as part of the general
agricultural instruction.
The garden-day programs were given special attention during
this year in the endeavor to correlate more closely the corn campaign and the actual garden work. The following figures are
of interest:
1912-13 1913-14 1914-16
Enrolled in gardening -... --- —-. --- — ----------------------- ----—. 43, 561 43, 769
Garden days held-89 300 1,423
Pupils exhibiting products --- —-------------------------------- 2,988 8,772 28,068
Farmers exhibiting products —. --- —--- ----------------------- 37 816 7,722
Gradually garden days are developing into agricultural fairs
in which the whole community takes active interest and from
which great agricultural and industrial benefits result.
As an arbor-day feature which is celebrated each year, tree
planting was continued. Emphasis was given to the planting of
fruit and other economic trees throughout the year. Fruit and
other trees and plants were distributed from school nurseries.
This amounts to a fruit-tree campaign which will have important results in a few years. The Province of Iloilo inaugurated
a mango-planting campaign. A large number of mango trees