The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-04

ana harvesting nearly al, work. You may
see boys OF riding horses In the field
and girls of and 10 are doing their share
OF the harvest. The lack OF elevators and
other conditions demand that the wheat
should be harvested quickly, and at this
time you VIII not find a harder working
people In tina world than these Italian
farmers OF the Argentine. Women and
girls, men and boys, labor with all their
strength from sunrise TO sunset and when
III is moonlight you may see them out I'M
der the stars binding and threshing wheat.
IT Is the same in planting time. but be-
tween these seasons there is a long vaca-
ton. The result IN that the failure Of n
crop means partial starvation There IL no
reason for this. The land IL susceptible OF
growing a great variety Of crops and as
poWing can be done here every month OF
the year, the Argentine farmer could raiss
everything he uses. AS II is Il is said that
ne can now produce wheat at n cost of
from 3 10 20 cents a bushel. This may he
80. bat. taking the average OF good and
bad crops, = Is probable tina; wheat costs
as much here as II does In the United
States.
Farm Wagons of the Argentine.
10 Is curious 10 see how the wheat Is car
riod 20 the cars from such farms as ara
far from the railroad. IT is hauled In hui-
lock carts. the wheels ~ which are about
eight feet nigh. load weighing several
tons is balanced between a couple of these
wheels. and from dozen 20 sixteen bull
locks are harnessed up IN double file In
front n II. As The cart moves onward over
the rough road the wheels give out such
"a screeching that you think there must be
a hog killing g0iong on near by. II you
tell the farmer that a biz of grease on the
axle would stop the noise. he replies that
this IL necessary. and that the bullocks
VIII not move unless they hear H. In some
few OF the large farms modern machinery
Is used. and the threshng IN commonly
done wi'h European or American thresh-
eYr.
They Have Troubles of Their Own.
The Argentine 81 subject to drouth. and
the crop rises and falls according 10 the
weather. The worst thing, however that
the farmers have 10 contend with In the
iocus's The pest that infeets the Arg.n-
tine is fuzzy as bad as The locust plague
With which the Ior. afflicted Pharaoh
TIE only difference Was that Pharaoh had
his }ocuste for a few days but the Ar
gsn'ines seem 20 be having theirs AZ a
regular thing. The plague does not ex-
tend 20 the extreme south. bat FOR the
past Eeyeu years the wheat farmers os the
PARMA valley have been seriously dam
aged by IT, There airs u lot % locnsts this
year Many people believe that the sltua-
t&aN - SAf'A tIAt me NUMBER OF GDeISfs VIII
increase from year 10 year, and that the
country can never be free from them. They
argue tAis from the location % the Argsn-
tine. II s.. yna know. situated ia the tenn
Ierata zone. with Il 5elightfu climate aud a
fairly good sol. Just above IL les Brazil.
which is covered wish tropical vegetation
ard vast areas ~ which viii never be siis-
feFent from what they now. In This
country Il x claimed mat the ,ocas,s have
Their breeding g-enuds They ara uyo-
Gacea by tae millions there every year.
and as a szargs thinks notaing az fight
~ 30 miles. you can see that an army
starting ous from tnsre is n dangerous en-
syny Trey say that the locuafs breed Il,
Brazil ana annually start o1gt for the south
eating up everything as they 10. They say
that they did not come IN the remote past.
aseause TIRE Argentine WAS tlen covered
w.xh re coarse grass 81 the pa mpaa This
the ioc1s8s I'D act especially care for but
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