The farmer and mechanic., 1915-02-16

,..,a. .yer heard of San Juan? |
,h. lwous estancia belonging |
tho sous 81 Leonardo Pereyra, on
.,irh was nred the Shorthorn bull
..,ict. nat sold at auction In
p.o,os >Irc> year or SO ago for
a.; ooo III 4od That was the highest
n,tee eyer paid tor any bull anywhere
coon Garth and il gives ore some IDEA
" tSe ,aH.c of the stock now on the
Tts e~t5.cla lies on the Rio de la
nj ,Ir.n.t ON the edge of this city.
I'D within an hours ride of Buenos
,ira. tha ripital of the Argentine Re
a"iJic II runs for nine miles along
- ricar and extends far back into
,he cnartrt 1t contains $4,000 acres
- as GOOD pasture land as any in Ken
trcky. and ,blS is divided up into fields
~ iO0 acres or more, upon Which are
now feeding some of the finest bred
cattle Of ne world.
The founder of the estate. Senior Pc
revra. was lhr first to realize the I'M
portance of high-class pedlgreed
stock and ne began to found his herd
he imported the bull Defiance and the
COW Coral The next year he bought
The famous ball Don Juan and the
COW pahIta. and later on other short
horn, which stand high in stock
breeding history He has Herefords
with pedierees which date back for
fifty years since he imported their
ancestors from England, and he has
Lincoln and Rambouillet sheep thai
have won silver cups all over this
country at the great fairs.
The estate now has on it more thar
5000 cows Of fine blood and hundred:
Of pedigreed bulls. 1t is used largel!
as breeding establishment to suppl.
the other great ranches belonging t
the family where there are altOgethe
something like $4,000 cows, and from
which are sold every year $4,000 ia
steers.
do not know just how much Ian
the Pereyra family owns. The amour
runs high into the tens of thousand
OF acres and their stock exceeds tn
widest ambitions of any Job, past @
present The San Juan estancia
their CHIEF breeding farm. It is ais
where the family lives during til
summer and there were forty of thel
there at the time of my visit.
san Juan is one of the most beaut
tu estates iu this land of millionail
Farmers have spent the create
part OF the day going over it. Tt
faIifoad station lies almost at IL
sates and the house is approacht
thfeush vide avenues of magniice1
trees Senor Pereyra sent his majo
uoioo 81 meet me, and l was drive
III coach drawn by two blood,
AViSes Tor an hour or more through
5m,lShty park. planted by the famil
this park consists of q eucalypt
iVFeSt The trees of which are 100 fe
nigh and as big around at the ba
% Ho-shead. There are other tire
scattered among them, and here a.
uuere are great patches of wide op
Sp'Ve covered with grass as high
!ouI Knee Here a stream winds abo
N,oueh The forest, and there you fl
" '@Ne over which hang great clum
II, '1uooos Some Of the avenues a
I'll WIN palms of many varieti
oa'e 'e are rustic bridges and islam
t;UltreU with tropical verdure.
So was reminded of some of
w. gS's oi Japan, and again of t
p;r,.iu' p;1nueiiu' sardens on the edge
u9Hid uiaH ~ the Sahara, the same IL
st"r ,ehs took for the scene of
''0'E The Garden of Allah
yr1 ms part of the estate looks lik,
ibe English park. There are m,
~ =. ''o acres in trees alone, and
=. poe these have been planted by Sci
u,t Erd | saw one pine tree whi
in AZ I1S branches, was fully fifty I
h., tiI'heter 1t was brought as a So
can 'af 'athero the family when
aro rom Europe about sixty we
nIa, ~ was oneo the first tr
,ph,ahted upon the estate. and bef
hnt h' uiae the country was moth
pam covered with grass.
tn" there are trees everywh,
for "te planted in the fields a sh
So, e ANIMALS, 10000 new trees be
treas oG' every year. Among tn
Thsr saw herd of deer feed
"fe something like 900 IN