The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-03

network like the veins Of a leaf. There
are very few swamps. The land is
we'll drained and the rainfall is just
about right for corn and wheat and
the raising of grass. Moreover, the
climate is one suited to white men.
1T is much like that of our Southern
states without the cold winters. The
grass keeps green all the year
around and the cattle and sheep are
turned out to chew for themselves.
There is not a barn in h whole
country, and you may travel hundreds
of miles and not see a hayStack or
feeding trough.
everywhere. The country has at least
5000, 900 cattle and &c, 900, 600 sheep.
There are SO many that if they were
all brought together and equally di-
vided among the people each family
would have 80 cattle n 250 sheep,
n leave a lot of animals over Tor
good measure. The stock is not as
fine as that of the Argentine, but the
country has been importing fine rams
for years and it now brings in as many
as 1000 ~pedigreed sheep in one year.
| OF late it has been importing fine bulls
n a steady improvement Of the stock
is now going on. The chief business
of the country is pastoral. Out OF
AZ, 600, 900 acres of Ian there are less
than 100000 in wheat, and the corn
crop covers only One-half million
acres. The chief cereals are wheat,
corn, oats and linseed, but the farm
ing is not we'll done and the yield per
acre is far below hat of u country.
Uruguay raises some fruit. and it is
now shipping grapes and wine to the
Argentine.
And just here l want to put in a
uD0 rs~ + n ~ Vic NC uyh <hinIx hov1
can come to this region and make
fortunes with little work and small
capital, This is not a land for the
poor man of our country. The land
is held in large blocks and the Ameri-
car minister tells me that it Is worth
almost as much as good land in the
States. There has been a great in
flation of prices, both here and in Ar.
! g~entina in the past few years., and
good lands that are accessible to the
railroads are bringing as much az
$50 per acre. The times are mar anG
the lands will probably slump, bu'
S one would need a big tract to be eQua
: to his neighbors, and he would b'
mighty lonesome if he were an Amer
: lean who did not speak Spanish an(
Y had to flock by himself.
e At present there are practically NJ
S small holdings. Something like 43, 90,
: men own all the lands Of the countr.
4 and their proprietors are on the aver
age almost 1000 acres each. Man,
I Of them have tens Of thousands o
acres and some have $4,000 and more
: The government is trying to buy land
and cOlonize them. 1t has already SOL
e thousands of acres and some foreig7
y countries are purchasing lands O.
which to found colonies. This vii
lead eventually to a subdivision of tn
big properties, but so far the incomin
l. people have been chiefly Italians an
e Spaniards, who live in a way tina
Nevertheless the possibilities of Urn
n quay are enormous. It's soil is nat
urally as rich as that of Ohio and In
o diana, and it's size is almost as gres
a as that Of those States. 1t has 1900
600 people while they have more tina
1t 5000, 900, and it lies in the heart of
lie country which some day will be {
s. thickly populated as the United State
le is now The subdivision Of the b.
is e%stanciaS will make thousands
~ small farms and the countries abol
Is will offer a market for Uruguay's Or,
ducts.
vi At present the most Of the land is
is a state Of nature rather than n
of intensive cultivation, but h govern
y, ment is alive to the bringing in
ed new seeds and new methods of farn
ing, and it has agricultural exper
re from the United States and Euro]
as studying the land on the ground al
he teaching the people how to make tt
to most of it.
nd Right here in M~ohtevideo there is
a bureau of seed examination whe
III farmers can send their seed and SO
~. to have them examined. The see
are tested as to their purity and the
is fitness for the soil and advice Is Civ
DIS as to the right seed to use. The go
Mt. eminent has also brought in dai
Ter experts and it has established a nul
Der Of model farms and experiment,
IDS stations where they are testing n,
Ar- plants and seeds. The agricultu1
rip department is working along sol
ru- of the lines inaugurated by the Unit
asst States, and a steady improvement
ich farming conditions is bound to go
d. The present administration is prOgr