The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER

now reaching out to the other side or the Atlantic and beginning to feed un- ele Sam. The English eat their Argentine steaks and chops every morning, and un- til the war began there was line Of steamers whose vessels started out from here every fortnight loaded with beef and mutton for the markets of New York. The country is beginning to ship butter abroad, and in the future it will prob ably be sending us both flour and corn. Indeed, the food lands of the Argentine are beyond conception enormous and they already compare favorably with ours In their agricultural production. The coun- try is much smaller than the United States but there are fewer waste lands and the farming conditions are better. The climate is such that cattle and horses can feed out of doors all the year round and the summers are hot enough to raise corn. One of the great possibilities of the future is in corn and hogs. As to the grain lands, they are now producing exports to the value of a quarter of a billion dollars and are only at the edge of their beginning.
 But first let us take a look at the Ar- genuine Republic. You have seen it on the map, but maps are barren ideality and it takes a geographer to know what they mean. Let me compare. Argentina with our country. In the first place, 1t is just about one-third as large as the United States propery, but it has no great mountain chains to eat up it's good lands and it's deserts are small in comparison with ours. If you could cut the Argentine into patchwork and fit the pieces upon our territory the patchwork would cover every inch of the land east of the Mississippi and the remnants would be larger than a number of the states west of that river This country is F times as big as Great Britain and five times as large as either Germany or France. It is greater in area than Mississippi Louisiana, Texas New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah. Colorado and Kansas combined It would make 20 states as big as Illinois and the lands of the most of them would be equally rich.
 The Argentine has a better climate than the United States. Both countries lie in the temperate zone, although one is far north and the other far south of the equator At noon in Argentina your shadow falls toward the south, in the United States it falls toward the north. Our cold lands are in the far north the cold lands of Argentina are in the far south We go to Florida and the West Indies in January to warm our chilled bones, and for the same reason the Ar gentinian goes to Paraguay and Brazil in his cold month of July. The seasons here are the opposite of ours. In Buenos Aires January is midsummer and August midwinter In the United States you must have southern exposure to get the sun during the cold weather in the Ar genuine Republic, for the same reason you want windows facing the north. :? If you go north in the United States by and by you reach the ice If you 20 north in Argentina you are soon in the tronies
 The crops of the two countries are about the same. Each has some of the greatest bread lands of the globe, and both are supporting millions of live stock Each raises enormous quantf- ties of grain, and both are exporting food to the rest of the world. They are already competitors in the selling. of meat, wheat and flour, and also in the selling of wool Of late years, how e"er we have been growing so fast that we are turning from farming f, manufacturing.
 As it is now, we can hardly supply meat for ourselves, and we will soon have to cease the exporting of wheat. Tho most of our land is already in cul- tiYation, and in the future we may have t. look to the Argentine to fill our bread baskets. This country already stands sixth among the wheat pro- ducers Of the world It's annual crop is i60 000,0 900 bushels, but this comes from