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The figures for United States exports include live cattle and 

 chilled beef, those from Argentina only chilled and frozen beef as 

 the ports of Great Britain have been closed to live cattle from 

 Argentina for about five years. At that time the danger of such 

 cattle causing outbreaks of foot and mouth disease was so great 

 that the ports were closed (May 1903) to all live cattle from Argen- 

 tina. While the opening of the ports would undoubtedly aid the 

 Argentine cattle raisers it is not probable that they will ever be 

 opened again and from the standpoint of the beef producers of the 

 south land, there is far less need for the restoration of this live 

 cattle trade now that there are at least thirty-two steamers equip- 

 ped with cold storage accommodations. 



Figure 2. — Purebred but unpedigreed shorthorns,'.Estancia."La Pastoril." 



Only the highest grade of cattle produced in Argentina, that is 

 the well bred and well fattened, are used for export. The best of 

 these are chilled and the remainder frozen. Abcut 28 per cent of 

 the beef exported from Argentina is chilled. All of the Argentine 

 export mutton is frozen. It is estimated that Argentine slaughter- 

 ing establishments have practically three-tenths of the killing 



