and Forester. A
description of the plant occurs in Mr. A. D. E. Elmer's leaflets.

[20] It is probable that the improved Andes stripper can be utilized
in the cutting of pandan straws.

[21] Arrangements are now being made through the schools for the
introduction of sabutan plants into the towns of Majayjay and Luisiana.

[22] Most of the information on "karagumoy" is taken from the report
submitted to the Director of Education by Mr. Ralph E. Spencer.

[23] The average was obtained by measuring accurately a number of
specimens of the species sent in to the Bureau of Education from
various provinces

[24] Its most common name is bariu, spelled also bario, balio,
balewe, baleau. In Occidental Negros it is also called, balean,
barog in Surigao, batin in Capiz.

[25] Robinson, in Vol. VI, No. 2, Section C of the Journal of Science,
states that this sedge also grows on the eastern side of Luzon.

[26] F. meliacea is also known as tikug in Samar but it cannot be
used in weaving.

[27] In pulling up tikug the whole stalk can generally be obtained
by grasping it a short distance below the top. It is made into small
bundles and tied a short distance below the seed heads. Each bundle
contains from forty to sixty straws. In all towns except Basey
the weavers gather the stalks they use. At Basey, however, where
weaving of mats is a recognized industry, the straw is obtained from
country people who make it a business to gather and sell it. These
tikug vendors carry the bundles of green straw to the town, where
they sell for from forty centavos to one peso per hundred bundles,
depending upon the length of the straws.

[28] The high cost of these dyes results from the adulteration
practiced and the exorbitant profits, usually about 450 per cent. It
is expected that the new dyes obtained from Germany through the Bureau
of Education will make a saving of about 80 per cent to the workers.

[29] The following story is reported as showing the cleverness of
the weavers of Basey in embroidering designs on mats. An engineer in
charge of road construction refused to buy certain mats from a vendor
but stated, jokingly, and in order to be rid of the insistent merchant,
that if he were brought mats having designs which were of interest to
him, as showing scenes connected with his work, he would buy them. In
a few weeks the broker returned, bringing with him a large mat on which
were displayed a road roller, wheel barrows, shovels, s