New Britain herald., 1930-10-04
NEW MELTING POT |NLAT|N AMERICA
Stream Of Immigration Now
 Flows to Argentine Plains

 i thousand Americans, approximately, make up the United States colony of Argentina, the big business re- public of South America, scene of recent change of government. But Americans are only drop in Argentina'sa bulging bucketful of ] outlanders," says bulletin of the National Geographic Society from it's headquarters in Washington, D. | c. "One quarter of the entire popu- lation, 2,2SO,00O individuals are | foreign born.
 Greater Melting Pot Than United States
 "Argentina's melting pot has been diluted with Europeans more freely than United States ever was; and yet more come. Immigration bars erected in North America defect the immigrant stream to South America, particularly to Argentina. | Italians vie with Spaniards for numerical superiority; Belgians, Swiss, English, French, Germans. Jews, Russo Germans, and Russo Jews season the Argentine scene IS the races of Europe blend in the blood of North America. Because the old North American colonial war cry, All good Indians are dead Indians, echoed also over the pam pas, the Argentine Republic is more strongly European than any other state of South America.
 1 Spanish in language and out look. Italian in it's wine-drinking habits taking Paris for it's model | in cities, and the United States for its model in business management Argentina tries to live up to the fact that A comes first in the ABC group of South American leaders; Argentina, Brazil, Chile.
 Worlds Leading Cow Country
 Cow country extraordinary, Ar> gentina has made cattle raising her principal industry by a long range triple trade play; U. s. to B: A. to G. B. Capital and scientific skill in meat packing have been thrown in- 1 to Buenos Aires by the United States; Buenos Aires completes the play by tossing shiploads of beef and mutton into Great Britain s kitchens. All three participants score; Britishers satisfy their hun ger; Argentinians roll up fortunes to spend in Paris; Americans cash div idend checks.
 Argentina has more cattle per capita than any other country in the world. Its record of three cattle per person is much higher than the United States and even higher than the ration in our western cattle raising states. Horses that escaped from the Spaniards multiplied on North American plains; both wild horses and wild cattle multiplied on Argentina's pampas. The Argentine gaucho became a hunter of free roaming cattle and horses while h,s Kansas cowboy cousin became a herder. Cattle stealing was never the serious crime on the pampas that it was in the North American Wild West because in Argentina cattle were free for the taking. No great ranch owner objected if q gaucho killed and ate COW out Of his herd; but it was bad form not ! to turn in the hide. Only the hides | we're valuable.
 Cattle was king and bids fair to continue 8 reign in the Argentine that never could last in the Unitei States. The natural evolution in the use of good rich land from cattle to sheep to wheat to corn and pigs an1 diversified farming has been check ed on the pampas temporarily, at least, not by any force of Nature, but by the good old Spanish GUS | tom of landlording on a large scale Landlords Hold on to Land
 Early colonists collected fla; | pamp-. land in bulk: blocks hun dreds of square miles in area have been held with remarkable tenacity. Division among the children Of ranch owners has cut the great holdings down. yet estancias as large as the District of Columbia are not uncommon. Unlike the American farmer the Argentine ranch owner seldom lives on his land. Buenos Aires or Paris for him, while a manager runs the farm Pure blood cattle, now popu- lar, demand better food than pam pa grass, so he grows alfalfa. But the land will not support success sive crops of alfalfa indefinitely so he rents out-never sells-acreagc to an Italian immigrant on fifty fifty shares. specifying that the Italian must grow wheat. Five years of wheat, the Italian renter is dismissed: back to alfalfa again and more cattle. High prices for land cannot lure an Argentinian to part with his acres; he has a sure thing and he knows it.
 Richest Land Devoted to Livestock
 "The fertile pampa, as a result, is populated by cattle instead of people. Immigrants pouring into Buenos Aires are forced to try their fortunes in less productive regions where the chances of success are slim, where drought sears the crpos. cattle die of fever, and the locusts eat everything in sight. Ex- Ccpt for a few colonies established for the land hungry immigrant there is no opportunity for him to introduce intensive agriculture in the richest acreage of the country.
 Tt is this set of circumstances which keeps meat products the leader of Argentines billion dollar export trade. Wheat, virtually . by