Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa January-February 1911, Number 3

CMConner

[begin crossed out text] about ten ^(80) mi fm Manila

"So many Cigrts"

Lipa : Coffee : silver harness 15 years coffee blight [end crossed out text]

wpd out 2 or 3 years

^(can walk) 10 hrs thro 1 cocoanut grove

Hectar 2.4 acres

Sugar sld [crossed out symbol] $ [end crossed out symbol] P100 [crossed out] [to $] to ^(P)150 Rice (irgtn wtr) [crossed out symbol] $ [end crossed out symbol] P100 [crossed out] [illegible] to ^(P)150 down to 50¢ an acre

Cut down smaller stuff then bigr stf on top & brn off

jabs holes sharp stick rice [crossed out word] fd [end crossed out word] seed- next year [crossed out text] one more [end crossed out text] new growth 3rd year old pc ready slashing off

40 cents a day

[begin crossed out text] work on Sunday but also Saint Days all Sunday gd for cock fight

[illegible] hombre (man) pick up chkn holler wf & chdn tao = psnt [end crossed out text]

setmt flg ; Ilocano on

[Chris?] : loans @ 10% a month mortgages on half acres [rarity?] hardly over 10% of available land in cultivation

Cotton acts funny, opens 5 bolls to stk & quits - dies dn - [crossed out word] start [end crossed out word]

[So?] negroes : rattle off Tagalog "[???] [???] [???] [Negro?]; treated jst lk wht man"

Coal lumber: "Here my [matrimony?]" [Mustered?] out 60 [Govt?] more trbl, thn passion for life

President: fgd ltr by Rsvlt

Custombre : 2 or 3 hrs sleep

Amer. wmn won't sc Filpno

Grasshoppers on table : wn won't Eat Brg lnch insulted

Plant tobco fm [11?]th De to March [crossed out word] [April] [end crossed out word] [crossed out word] Cayagan [end crossed out word] Cagayan River

[crossed out word] to [end crossed out word] gross incm Cocoanut sell 1 peso year for tree

Sugar 40 to 50% a month [Cmptn?] wd [mk?] [grp?] [std?]

[Slg?] & [???] Bk to all School Libraries (special price) N.C. SC. Va