The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-02-01
Openings in Argentina
.-.-uIture and Stock Raising Not Much
10 Tempt North Americans.

..s! correspondence of The Journal
,ps AYREs, Dec. y, 1906. l
--rrlved good many letters dur
D. MO past months from various
..rs Of the United States asking
.-,rmation concerning business OF
.,.Js III Argentina, and especially
.,sri to agriculture. After con
.llr tie question, it seems to me
cannot do better than answer
IN the lump" so to speak,
ell the columns of The Republican
riL
ough Argentina possesses the
If agricultural lands in the world,
Innate that is unsurpassed for
..- all sorts of fruits and cereals,
.v no mean be called an agrlcul-
Mutry. Being mostly one vast,
taln. grazing is the easiest, least
rs and most profitable pursuit
. under the peculiar circum-
- Existing here; and the scattered
uJs of the pampas are quite
.. To live as their fOrefatherS did
production of horses, sheep
.., Argentina has an area al
great as all of the United
.ast OF the Mississippi, although
. alton is less than SIX million
AN one million being crowded
los Ayres OF smaller than the
au OF Pennsylvania alone. Out
Mains the pastoral industry Is
u TO this day III much the same
s- that of three centuries ago:
il is eft to take care of Itself,
ais finding both food and wa
.1lI and Dame Nature looking
.sr rest. The latest official re-
.tI lave seen gives the number
al cattle IN the country at -
$50. 600 horses and Sc, 800, 600
-le total value of the whole APP
ing $3.50. 900, 900 Yet year IN
during the trosts of winter
iIv spells of summer, this luu-
lumber of animals feed them
best they may on the grasses
ring spontaneously in the vast
.. not mouthful ever being
item, or a dollar expended III
~ for their comfort. However,
E. exceptional year when they can
through somehow from season
s-lu. During the months of spring
-umn there is always an abund-
ID luxuriant grasses and succulent
md the animals, running at large
.leir owners broad leagues, If not
lin clover" do we'll enough,
. en the long droughts of summer
nd the second growth of grasses
at appear III consequence, and
.ams and little lakes are all dried
wells are ever provided there
lgedies in the campo and I'M
losses for the cattle-owners.
IDS stray away in search of food
tier. and thousands upon thouo-
them perish i'll the quest, Some
ii the winter the situation is
worse, when piercing winds blow
..pks at time off the frozen cor
bringing rain, sleet aud snow.
uttd droves hurrying before the
are sometimes stopped III Their
c.reer by a wire fence or some
,bstruction, and perishing of
and exposure, literally pile up
.-ps on top of Que another. Last
-~tlmated loss from these causes
~'uuated at $4,000, 600 in gold.
lives called it epidemic, but that
...ug to do with tit was Simply
uu and want of shelter, the re-
their own carelessness and in
.tN Cattlemen i'll the United
manage things much better, and
.-0 our climate is more severe
inter- Ieigus during half the year,
IS never any such mortality
Jhe stock. Hay, which is one OF
lost valuable annual crops, Is
ally unknown here; at least none
harvested with view to
it TO the home stock when
lives out. y little alfalfa IS
led for special purposes, but
.I it is baled and shipped to
IA ports. where it commands a
nee. Alfalfa can be grown in
ma nearly all the year around,
ing the warm months five or
ps may be taken from a single
It's uXurisnce is something mar
seven tons per acre of excellent
ug not an uncommon yield. \ ct,
rr 10 say. there are few Argentine
g., who cultivate all acre OF II.
lg and harvesting hay is alto
700 much like hard work for the
temperament, and so the tiocks
ords must take their chances.
.nly is no provision made for WIN
ding. but the ranchman does not
how the humanity or business
-ut of planting a belt OF timber
WindWard of his stock, by which
Ak the force of the occasional
and afford his animals some
shelter
ID spite of all these shortcomings,
.- fearful losses which they an
entail, the natural pasturage of
udless Campo" and the meal
number of animals it SuStalnS
during source of wealth to AT
the support of a greater pas
industry than any other part OF
ord can show. 1t is Impossible
tIze the extent of this natural
.ge by merely looking at the
r--60o, 900 square miles of it, as
ust about one per cent. Of the
republic which is now devoted
couture. 1t is a cattle range nine
- The size Of England and Ireland
er than Great Britain, France,
amy, Austria. Hungary, Italy,
and Portugal all put together.
Is estimated that the really good
dtnral lands of Argentina cover
u.a about equal to that of Louisl-
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
.rssee, Kentucky, Illinois, Ind
ONO, Missouri and Wisconsin.
mat it is capable of producing
erop grown in those States. Yet
lie cattle which are marketed fol-
ste never stall-fed, but are driver
and rough, from the pampas
ct time ago the Buenos Ayre>
published the following slgniti
, en-: zone of the prime necesSl
= e., of n r