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these names by the attendants who spoke Spanish or 

 Italian. 



We next inspected the stables. Some fine horses 

 were on view. Arabian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire, 

 Suffolk-Punch, Boulonnais, Anglo-Norman, and Hack- 

 ney stock were represented. But I hardly found the 

 display of horses as interesting as that of the cattle. 

 There were only two hundred and eighty-eight horses 

 and one ass on exhibition ; before the nine hundred bulls 

 and cows, the equine cohorts seemed small. Further- 

 more, the box-stalls surrounded by gratings, through 

 which it was necessary to peer, and the rather dim light 

 of the pavilions did not allow the horses to be seen 

 to the same advantage as the cattle, which were dis- 

 played in open stalls under a better light. 



The sheep were interesting. The animals exhibited 

 belonged mainly to the various well-known English 

 breeds, and they all seemed to be in remarkably good 

 condition. To allow them to carry the fleeces they 

 bore in a subtropical climate almost appeared cruel, 

 but they apparently gave no evidence of suffering, 

 though the place at the noon-hour was hot. We 

 glanced at the exhibit of poultry, which was good, and 

 then went to the Agricultural Museum. It is well 

 arranged, the exhibits are carefully labelled, and the 

 display is upon the whole instructive, enabling the 

 student at a glance to gain a good idea of the agricul- 

 tural resources of Argentina as a whole and of the sepa- 

 rate provinces in particular. Whoever is in charge of 

 the institution has correct ideas as to administration 

 and the manner in which to convey instruction to the 

 people. 



The early settlers of South American lands brought 

 with them cattle and horses of the races which at that 



