The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-07
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

has his horse. The saddles used are or the Argentine kind. with stirrups made of great disks of leather In which a hole has been cut for the foot. These stirrups are tied to the saddle with rawhide. To to te thrown his foot might catch and he be dragged to his death.
 The cows on these estancias. are chiefly Holstein and Durham, or cross between the two. The estancia keeps steady inn provenent going on in it's breeding. It has several hundred fine bulls, and every station keeps two or three. The cows are in large fields surrounded by wire fences. Some of the fields contain several hundred acres. The COWS feed in herds OF 100 or more they range in weight from SCo to 1900 pounds and some of the bulls run as high as 2o0o pounds.
 In addition to this dairy there are a number of others springing up all over the country There are many in this province. some in Entre Rios, which lies between Uruguay and the Parana river, and others in the alfalfa region. Some Of the estancias which raise cattle for beef are now milking their cows. In such cases the cattle are given over to dairy men, who take care of the milk for a per- centage of the profits The cows will be divided up into herds of from 150 to POO, and one man may be in charge of each herd. The milk is taken to the factories or creameries, and the dairymen get about one-half the profits.
 There are two large butter factories in this country which are run as CO., operative institutions. These are La Ar gentina and Fl Progreso. La, Argentina works up skim milk of more than f00 crean.eries, and both it and Fl Progreso are exporters of butter. I am told that there are a number of other dairies with from 1000 to 6G00 cows, and that these in- clude such breeds as Shorthorns, Red Lincolns and Red Poles, as well as the Dutch breeds. The favorite milch COW for the Argentine seems to be the Dutch belt ed variety, so-called from the wide belt of white hair which runs around it's black body These animals have what is called the milk shape. They have good udders, thin necks, straight backs, wide breasts and small horns. They can stand the changes of climate, and will thrive on any kind of fodder. They are noted for be- ing quiet, and the bulls are seldom ill., tempered They are said to be good for beef as well as for milk.
 During my visit to the estancia of San Juan, near La Plata, I saw a special breed of cows. created by Senor Pereya, who owns altogether something like SO,00o head of stock, and who was the owner of the bull Amercus that was sold at auc- ton for 35,0c0 gold dollars. This new breed is a cross of the Holstein with the Rolled Angus. It has produced a very fine milking strain, and the major domo told me he considered it superior to that of any other in this part of the world
 The Argetines are breeding their meat cattle up to better status than that of almost any other country. and if they should pay similar attention to breeding up their dairy cattle they will probably do equally we'll with them As it is now, there are about TOO dairies in the country, but these have all sprung up within the past 20 years.
 Indeed, the story of the evolution of cattle breeding and dairying in Argen- tina is one of the wonders in the his- tory of stock raising. Even now it is not uncommon to find an estancia that has tens of thousands of cows, using canned milk for its coffee, and in the past butter has been practically un- known on many of the estates that owned more cows than Job ever dreamed of possessing. Today more than 400, 900 quarts of milk are brought into Buenos Aires every morning. and the annual export of cheese is several million pounds.
 These figures, I know, are nothing in comparison with the statistics of our American dairy interests. We are now annually making more than half bil- lion pounds of butter and more than 3000, ,000, 900 pounds of cheese. We make