The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-16

and refused it. On the same ss
AmeriCuS was sold another
brought $50, 1000. and a third A..
for $4,000. These prices maE.
eyes bulge, but when it is rene.....
ed that some of the big .->r4rr.--
here OWL as many as 100 G00 1...
and sell every year as manv l.
600 steers it Will be seen that -. II
ditlOn of a hundred pounds Or ~ .
| the weight of a steer means j -r
| profit. This increase is hTought H.
| by good breeding.
| There are cattle shows hello #a-.
every year, and it is not uncomr77,
| to have 1000 cattle and from -6a :.
1000 sheep on exhibit \ fat --..l
sale often brings in a great tasf
money. Certain ones have brou1nt p
| aas much as $1,0O0,000, and net ,.4-s
| of 100000 are common. The Tet{.
! grees of the famous bulls are krovr
| everywhere and every man keeus HIS
stock book and stock reister ~.
| the sales the most popular cattle ..r...
| the ShOrthOrns, and next TO them rre
Herefords. At a recent sale al paI-
| ermo. where the prices We're especial
| ly low, the best bull. known as Be4a-
tvs Stamp, brought only $5.5o4.
| while number Of other ar.N.
brought from $4,000 to $4,000 Ths
| best Herefords brought $4,000 and
the total sales Of Hereford bulls nat-
| ted altogether only S6S.000 The
prices give some idea OF the financial
string9ncy caused by the war. Anon,
the bidders were men who have bulls
on their estancias which cost 10000
and upward. One was Manuel CGbe.
who imported Rufus al a cost OF $l5.-
900, and who has sold bulls from his
estate at prices of over 10000 Thera
were present also the Pereyras who
sold Americus at $35. 900. Senior Coho
owns 500 ShorthOrn pedigreed cattle
and he has won 800 different prizes
at the stock shows.
The importations of foreign stoc
are rapidly raising the standard ~
Argentine beef. Twenty years ago
SO per cent of the cattle here were
native bred. They were Of the class
known as Criollas, the offspring -
, the Spanish stock. which was deteri-
grated by inbreeding. At present only
about per cent of the stock is na
, tive bred and 80 per cent is more uF
t less foreign bred. The first Sohrt
. horn bull, Tarquin, was brought it
more than sixty years ago, and amons
the pure bred ShOrthOrns, bulls ane
cows, imported from England nin-
years later were the bull Defiance ant
' the COW Coral, which formed th'
: foundation of the herd Of Leonard,
: Pereyra Today there are good cat
t tie everywhere, and 81 great demant
| has sprung up for the pure brec
/ Shorthorns Of the United States.
t am told that American bulls Whlc.
8 | SELF for not more than $4,000 can b'
9 easily disposed Of.
= AS to the future meat supply "
. Argentina, I have had talks durln,
my stay here with DR.. Don Abel Ben
goloea, the president Of the RuTda
8 Society, and also with its manager
. Senor Adolfo Aimerich. They ar
both enthusiastic as to the prospects
- and have given me some or the ny
q ures l have used in this letter ASK
. ed Senior Aimerich as to the nunbe
" Of cattle Argentina could feed Il
:. replied:
> eve have about 500, 900 900 acre
~ Of good land in our country. Tayln
out half to be used for grain ralSlnj
diversified farming. and as the site
r, Of cities, towns and factories, we haN
~ 25O.OOO.OOO acres remaining. II th
- is properly handled it will easily SUI
II port 15O,O00,0O0 cattle, which IS liz
% times as many as we have now Ih
n estimate is not at all eXtravaga1
- considering the undeveloped II
- sources of the republic, and with II
- tensive cultivation the number In6l
~ be materially increased This IS -
,r pecially SO Of the lands producing a
~ falfa~ We have already more ina
100000 acres under that crop, al
If there are many times as much lI'
is might be SO used"
% FRANK G. CARPENTF|,.
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