The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-09
ACROSS THE ARGENTINE PAMPAS
rank G. Carpenter Describes the Vast Bread and Meat
Lands Which Are To Feed Uncle Sam in The Future.

500 ,ifaIfa Region With Fields
!, thousands Of Acres-Ihe Nas
wb,.at Fields and the Millions OF
liz, Stock-The Great Sheep In
Jus,ry and the PASTURES OF Fata-
""n;,-How the Argentine Republic
1ooks-Its Mighty Extent and How
:, With the United States
Craphic Description Of a Jour-
800 From the Andes to the At
iantic. /,
Ycopyrighted, 1914, by Frank q. Car
n%cnter).
RUENOS AIRES, Argentina.
par,ng the past twenty-four hours I
&C crossed the Argentine repub-
Tie started in the foothills of the
AIDES and spent all night and all day
moving over the pampas. My train
,Das a fast express, and 1t carried me
tbrough the best settled part Of this
mighty country.
I went to bed in the sleeper, sur
rounded by vineyards. There were
,,rapsyines on each side h track,
End they extended as far out as my
aves could reach. That region has
moro than 1000, 900 acres in grapes,
and It Yields so much wine every year
that If it were transported to our
.ountry there would be q COLON for
every man, woman and child, II still
some TO spare.
Leaving the vineyard, We came into
4 region OF scrub and brush, and then
entered a short strip of desert. We
crossed his during the night, and
when | looked out of my window at
aaybreak We We're travelling through
The greenest Of green. The vast plains
on each side of the cars were covered
with alfalfa, and that in fields of hum
dreds Of acres. In many places the
alfalfa was as high as your Knees,
and herds Of fat cattle were feeding
upon it, or lying down and chewing
heir cuds. There We're bales Of al
falfa at the station. They had beer
out UP i'm rectangular piles and COW
cred with canvas TO keep off the gain
There were also stacks i'll so1na 81
the fields, but in most places nothing
but this vast expense Of green.
our train made but few stops. TE;
western part Of the Argentine Re
public is thingly settled and the Vil
lagos are far apart. The crowds "
saw at the stations were like those o
our western frontier. and many of in
people looked as though they a jus
come from the immigrant ships. l SAY
Spauiards and Italians by the score
and mixed with them were the gau
chos or Argentine cowboys. The PEG
ole were clad mostly in cottons. TIL
men had on caps and jackets and fu
trousers upheld by belts or strings a
the waist. The legs were tied in g
the ankles. Some of the men of tn
better class had on leggins or boot
The women wore bright colored ca
leo dresses, with skirts which reache
only to the tops Of their shoes. The
heads We're bare or covered Wit
shawls. They resembled the peasan
NJ southeastern Europe. About tx
stations horses were tied n We coul
see men %galloping across the fields an
over the roads.
Between the stations we saw lit
but these great fields fenced wit
wire and spotted with great drove
Of stock. AT times we rode for mil
without seeing the dwellings Of I'll
great land owners. The most of IL
farm buildings are mud huts not mo
than twenty feet square, and so lC
That you could stand on the ground b
side them and reach to their roo
Some Of the huts are rooted with ga
sanized iron and others with thatc
There are also r buildings amo
The newer homes OF the farmers. No
II the poorer huts nave gardens
flowers about them. They r t
homes Of the Italian %colonists, W
nave come here to make money. Sol
II them ave large tracts, but tn
i've little better than hogs. In M
cases I'VE or three rooms make
the whole house.
Passing out OF the alfalfa count
We entered g. region Of pastures int
hperscd with fields of indian co
some OF the fields were almost bouI
Tess, aud the green stretched
from each side of the track like
hlghty sea. The pastures have gr
~ loot high. and the corn is in bl
SON. The a Ii and the sky impress
you with the immensely of the COZ
Try. The sky hangs low. It is a
Vlue. With fieecy white louds float
ing about here and there. AS you T
across the republic you see moth
Dul this low sky and the grass
ne crops, which extend out to it
ne horizon. Everything is impress
an us biSness. The fields are in trs
81 hundreds Of acres and the C
Eo"S seem to run from the railr