The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-27
ARGENTINE BEEF
 VERY IMP PORTANT

Everybody knows that a region of cattle is wide, free, open, with plenty of room for ranging and solitude. Whether, as on the pampas of the Argentine, there be grass in abund- ance, or, as in the deserts of the western United States, there be only a few spears around each sagebrush, cattle need space to roam in. For that reason, the life of a cattle coun- try has always been picturesque in the great sweep of it's movements. With the passing of much of the old time cowbody of North America into-th comparative uniformity that is encouraged by the automobile and the motion picture, it is interesting to see how imagination is turning more to the Argentine for the romance of cattIe-raising- Thus we have the re- rival of some old books by MT w. H. Hudson, which led to the very sue cessful publication of even better new ones of his. Thus, too, we have the business alertness of Chicago pack CTS concerning itself more and more with the cattle of Patagonia, until finally they dissociated their interests on the two continents.
 The great travellers to South America have given numerous vivid accounts of the herds of the pampas Thus Clemenceau tells us: You see a dark shadow that rises on the horizon that might be either a village or a group of haycocks, until the vague shifting of the mass suggests to your mind the idea of some form of life The lines show clearer, groups break off and stand out, pointed horns ap- pear, and at last you find you are watching the tranquil passage of a monstrous herd, whose outlines are stenciled in black upon the whiteness of the sky line like the Chinese shadow pictures I saw on one oc-
 casion at the Chat Noir Gin Mont martre) when the flocks of the patri- archs were flung upon the sheet"
 Hiram Bingham and Lord Bryce
 also have helped the world to think
 of the Argentine as one frontier still
 remaining for active adventure. And
 what is it that appeals, even to the
 small boy who likes to see the 'twild
 vest on the screen? Than waIking
 perhaps roaming on horseback is
 alone freer in it's simplicity. On horse
 back, one always has a faithful com panion; and out among the cattle one
 can rejoice in the magnitude of daily perseverance,.
 The development of cold storage ] and improvements in ocean trans portation have already brought the | Argentine frontier much nearer ths l rest of the globe. But with the de 1 mands of the various leather indus l tries, the resources of South America 1 in this respect are bound to be con | served and utilized even more, unti 1 that whole phase of industry ha. i served it's purpose, and even the pam pas are made to give to the world 1 other things than cattle. It is yer! possible that, just as coal and oil giv,
 place to water power, so cattle-rais ing may very largely give place tc cultivations of the land for othel products. The Argentine need no l permanently mean to the ayerag' person merely a great land of ca | for the requirements of the .'it i will naturally change with the bette 1 understanding of the real resource of every region. Meanwhile the Ar genuine will rejoice in whateve l brings it's abounding activity closer il I every way to that of all other na tions-Christian Science Monitor.