New-York tribune., 1911-11-05

vested in Argentina during the last
twenty-five years.
This author gathers his information on
the spot from the best sources ana
writes i'm bright captivating style. lie
IS seldom tedious and is always plctu-
rescue, in spite of his overwhelming ar
ray of figures and statistics. His de-
scriptions Of the Argentine stock farms
are remarka BILE. The importance OF the
Ia tier may he appreciated by bearing III
mind that they contain 3O000,0OO oxen,
is 600 600 sheen and 10.000,ooO horses.
There are hundreds of stock farms eN-
tending over $1,000 hectares and thou
sands that embrace 10000 hectares.
Nine. dc Casares, for instance, has sew
cral stock farms. ono of which, at
Huetel. comprises 81 600 hectares, upon
which she maintains 6OOOO sheep,
mostly Of select Lincoln stock: 3'Wn
head Of cattle. mostly Durhams, ana D.
oOO Clydesdalc horses. These stock
farms, or "estancias," are admirably
kept. and the different breeds are sepd-
rated by galvanized iron fences, often
five hundred kilometres in length and
costing about S1J00Oo. The cattle, sheep
and horses of Argentina are of the best
strains of English stock. NJ. Manuel
Cobo. to cite one among many examples,
some wears ago purchased from Mr.
Wright. the well known English sheep
owner, 200 rams and ewes at a cost ol
500. goo NJ. CobO also bought in Eng
land the famous bull Rufus. for which
he paid $1,000. The breed Of Argentine
horses is excellent. IT may he men
toned that NJ. Ignacio Correas pur-
chased from Edward VII the famous
stallion Diamond jubilee for SlGOWO.
and NJ. Saturnino Unzuh bought from NJ.
Edmond Blanc the stallion Val dor for
$50 900 During the year 1906 over
three hundred stations Of pure English
blood were imported into Argentina.
But the greatest number uf stations that
go to Argentina are hackneys. for rails
| ing carriage horses. and Percherons ana
Clydcsdalcs. for producing draft horses
NJ. Huret's book contains valuable
hints to French Legislators who are now
striving To solve the dear meat problem.
I'm dealing with Argentina England has
stolen a march on France. The English
/ Board of Trade said to Argentina
Take our bulls, rams and stations, to
the exclusion of all others, and we VIII
open eur doors to your cattle on the
hoof and to your stored meats Argcn-
tina thus found i'm Great Britain her
| best customer. The English stockmen
were not at all alarmed about this in
PRODUCTION of exotic meat. one of the re-
suits of which is choice high priced
British meat for the wealthy classes and
a very cheap. yet good, stored meat
within reach Of the poor. While this
was being accomplished France closed
her ports to all meat and live animals
from Argentina. And this is the situa-
tion to-day.
This book contains some highly inter
estng chapters about the people of Ar
gentina. their lives, habits, customs, fads
and superstitoEs. and also about the
great industries. such as those OF the
grangers. cattle breeders, cultivators
of the national beverage, the ''yerba
mate" and the sugar planters. II is full
Of well told anecdotes concerning lead
ing personages of the republic. tinan-
cicrs society men and women. gauchos,
the beautiful girls of Tucuman and land
and forest spectators. 1t is pity that
this extremely well thought out work
contains neither map nor illustrations.
A page of fist rate descriptive writing is
devoted to the falls of the lguaza, which
are twenty metres higher than those Of
Niagara and three times as wide. al
though the volume of water is not SO
great According TO the author. the
falls Of the Iguaza are more beautiful
and more varied than those Of Niagara,
especially in their present natural state,
untarnished by artificial paths and Won
derfully rich In brilliantly colored
flowers plants and trees. NJ. Huret has
i'm hand another book about Argentina,
which will soon appear "De la Plata a Ia
Cordilliere des Andes" G. |. y.