Note 6 — APPENDIX: AGRICULTURE IN FILIPINAS

Bernáldez, in his account (dated 1827) of “Reforms needed in Filipinas” (already presented in our VOL. LI) says of this association (fol. 29): “Although in Manila there is an Economic Society organized to promote public prosperity by means of the industries of the country, composed as it is of miscellaneous members, nominated without [their own] solicitation, and without inclination for that sort of occupation, there is little, if anything, to be expected from the activities of a body which has already gone to pieces once through its own inaction, and has been reëstablished only to comply with the sovereign’s command, and not by the activity or encouragement of the citizens of Filipinas themselves.” ↑