102 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



the State of Indiana, has during the past year, taken steps to make 

 direct apphcation of the principles here stated, at least in prevent- 

 ing children from choosing as their parents idiots, imbeciles, and 

 certain classes of criminals. This is an important step and one 

 whose general application can not much longer be delayed in the 

 interests of future generations. There is reason, therefore, to hope 

 that when we get through improving plants and domestic animals 

 we may progress to a point where we can apply these important 

 principles in improving a certain wild animal known to biologists 

 by the dignified title of Homo sapiens. 



LIVE STOCK AND AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS IN 

 ARGENTINA AND HOW THEY AFFECT THE AMERICAN 

 LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY. 



(By Prof. H. W. Mumford, University of Illinois.) 



The attention of the entire world has been called to Argentina 

 as a rapidly growing and exceedingly important factor in the 

 world's supply of beef. For many years the United States of North 

 America has been the chief factor in the export trade of this com- 

 modity. Today the Argentine Republic must be looked upon as an 



Figure 1. Frigerificio cattle of the Export Cliilled Beef type. 



