The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-03-30

wheat fields and corn fields, but the
most of the land is given over to pas
ture. Reaching Tucuman you are IN
a country like our Southern states
From there you can go further nOrtn
for hundreds Of miles through elds
Of sugar cane, tobacco, cotton and
corn.
Yon can start at Buenos Aires, and
go south, riding through pastures n
corn fields and wheat fields for q
whole day. or YOU can go to the north,
and, crossing the Rio de Ia Plata,
come into the Argentine Mesopota-
mia, Entire Rios. tina lies between the
Uruguay and Paraguay rivers. The
whole country will produce wheat. and
intensively cultivated it could feed a
large part Of h globe.
Crossing nto Uruguay you find
there another wheat country, and
going On into southern Brazil see
lands, now farmed by the Germans,
which are among the grain possibili-
ties Of the future. South America al
ready produces in the neighborhood
of 200, 900, 10000 bushels OF wheat per
annum: and it may eventually yield
more h a ten times as much, or an
amount equal to two-thirds of the
ACOS1i HiASdS wy VI t1iS VI
his more than nine-tenths comes
from Argentina. a country which al
ready leads in it's exports Of corn, and
which has corr possibilities equal to
those Of it's wheat.
Argentina is already exporting -four.
1t has now three or four hundred
flour mills with an output of about
$4,000, 600 per annum. There are
seventy-fve mills in the province OF
BuenOs Aires; and altogether, two or
three billion pounds OF wheat are an
nually ground. One Of the chief mill
ing centers is. away down on the At
lantic ocean at Bahia Blanca. That
port promises to be the Minneapolis
of Argentina. 1t is gridironed with
railroads that embrace a large grain
region, and from where wheat and
-four are exported direct to Europe
The exports have doubled in value
during the past four years, and are
now more than $1O0. 600. 900 per an
num-. The chief railroad companies
have elevators at Bahia Blanca. som:
of which lave a loading capacity O
eighty ton per hour. The grain i:
carried from the cars on c%Onveyors tt
the steamers. and the elevators have
automatic Gales that weigh three tons
at a time. There is one elevator tina
has a capacity of 10000 tons. 1t car
load as much as 100. 900 sacks o
wheat in a day. The wheat is taker
into steel hoppers OF forty tons each
and flows out into great. round bricl
c'lOs. each Of which has a capacity O
about 100000 tons. There are eigh
-ilos. about fifty feet in height an{
thirty feet in diameter.
Bahia Blanca is one OF the randi,
growing towns Of Argentina. It's ffou,
and wheat are the basis OF it's pros
pefity, n it promises to be a grea
city. 1t has already about 100, 900 in
habitants, and it will have three time
real estate transactions OF q singh
year nave amounted to $40, 0OO, OOO
nd the exports + steadily growing
The flour made in Bahia Blanca i
,xcellent, and it will oInpa favor
Europe.
There is e fine ~undeveloped whea
region such and west Of Bahia
! have beer down in Patagonia an,
visited the valleys OF the Rivers Colo
RADIO and Negro. These are larg
streams and their fall is such tina
they can de damned and irrigation b
made possible for q wide distanc
along them from the Andes to tn
sea. The soil is as rich as any par
of Utah or California.
There is much un~developed wtea
lands in the tampa and a 1eadin
I authority estimates that the republi
mas about lYhTy million a0roS fha