The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-28
BY FRANK c. CARPENTER


 of scn can fo to the north. and. crossing the hie de la Plata, come into tile Ar ssitipe Mesopetamia, Entre Rios. that Hes betN the Uruguay and Paraguay rivers The whole country will produce .wbeai- and inte.slvely cultivated it could feed large bart of the globe
 Crossing intu Uruguay you find there another Hliest country, and going on into southern Brazil see lands, now farmed by the Germans, which are among the grain possibilities of the future. South America already produces in the neighborhood of 200,000,000 bushels of wheat per annum; and it may eventually yield more than 10 times as much, or ad amount equal to two-tnrds Of the present wheat crop Of the world Of this moro than ninc-tenths comes from Argen- tina, | country which already leads in its exports of corn, and which has corn pos sibiliues equal 10 those of it's wheat.
 Argentine is already exporting flour, Ii has now 90 or 400 hundred flour mills with an output of about $5o Ooo.Ooo per annum. There are 75 miles in the province or Buenos Aires, and altogether 2,ooo 900, GOO
 
 nualy ground. One of the chief milling ceiters is away down on the Atlantic ocean at Bahia Blanca. That port prom ises to be the Minneapolis of Argentina It is gridironed with railroads that em- brace large grain region, and from where wheat and flour are exported di- rect to Europe. The exports have doubled in value during the past four years, and are now more than s100O0O,0O0 per annum The chief railroad companies have eleva- torn at Bahia Blanca, some of which have loading capacity of 80 tons per hour The grain is carried from the cars on con veyors to the steamers, and the elevators havo automatic scales that weigh three tons at q tlme There is one elevator that has capacity of 7oG0o tons. It can load as much as 100000 sacks of wheat in a day. The wheat is taken into steel hoppers of 40 tons each and flows out into great round brick sIlos. each of which has capacity of about 100000 tons. There are eight silos about 50 feet in height and 90 feet in diameter
 Bahia Blanca is one of the rapidly growing towns of Argentina. It's flou- and wheat arc the basis of it's prosper ity, and it promises to be great city. It has already about 10q000 inhabltants and it will have three times that within D years from now. The real estate trans- actions of Il single year have amounted to s2ooooooo, and the exports are steadily growing. Tho flour made In Bahia Blanca Is excellent. and it will compare favorably with that of the United States or Europe.
 There Is a fine undeveloped wheat re- have been down in Patagonia and wis., ited the valleys of the Rivers Colorado and Negro These are large streams and their fall is such that they can be damned and irrigation be made possible for a wide distance along them from the Andes to the sea. The soil is as rich as any part of Utah or California.
 There is much undeveloped wheat lands in the pampas, andr a leading authority estimates that the republic has about S0,- 000,000 acres that can be devoted to this crop. The present crop can be doubled by intensive cultivation. and the depart ment of agriculture is encouraging this through its experimental farms. The average wheat yield is now only little more than II bushels per acre, and this in contrast with our F bushels per acre and the % bushels per acre which is the aver age yield of England and Germany.
 It Is only on certain of the large es- tates managed by the English and Arsen- tinos that wheat farming is scientifically done. Most of the grain lands are in the hands of Italians, many of whom farm the land on the shares, doing their work in the most sovenly way. A great deal of the grain Is sown broadcast and that upon