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and other concerns, and naturally their beef industry will develoi), while 

 pork producing and their wool and mutton industry will increase. Their 

 dairy industry has increased of recent years and this past yfear they 

 exported 8,000,000 tons of butter. The foreign trade of that country 

 amounts to just about one billion dollars a year, as compared with six 

 billion dollars of the foreign trade of our country, and their foreign trade 

 has doubled in the past te'n years. Their ocean shipping trade amounts 

 to something over 900,000,000 tons annually and of that amount only 

 145,000,000 tons come to the United States, 575,000,000 tons going to 

 northern Europe and the rest being scattered to Africa and southern 

 parts of Europe and eastern points, so that you see we do not cut much 

 of a figure thus far in the foreign trade of that country, notwithstanding 

 the fact that we have been supplying them with considerable agricul- 

 tural machinery and other manufactured products. 



Conditions are undoubtedly more favorable than they have been in 

 the past. The European war has brought about an increase in our 

 exports to these countries because it has cut off some supplies that 

 they had been getting from Europe, but there is no assurance that we 

 will continue to hold that market unless we are able to hold it by 

 force of the strongest competition that is found to develop there. 

 There is no question but that the European manufacturers and merchants 

 will come back strong and determined to get back that market. There 

 are many reasons why there should be closer business relations with this 

 country. There will be undoubtedly a surplus of many of our products 

 for export, so looking upon this country as a market for their surplus 

 meat products, we should be able to increase our exports and imports 

 with that country, as the Argentine is the only country in the world 

 that has a surplus of beef. 



Brazil is coming to the front very rapidly in the development of its 

 cattle industry and will have a surplus of beef, and those two countries 

 are going to be looked to in years to come to furnish the beef that is 

 to be needed by other nations in excess of what they produce. They think 

 they v/ill send some of this beef to help in feeding our hundreds of 

 millions of people, and they probably will. They will undoubtedly buy 

 pure-bred live stock of us, but that will not be a large item, as the pure- 

 bred live stock that has been going in there has been sent from Great 

 Britain. They will help the conditions here in the breeding industry 

 to some extent, but we must bear this in mind, it is not a market for 

 unloading our cull or inferior stock; only animals of the highest excel- 

 lence that we can produce will be acceptable, and for that class of stock 

 there will be a demand. Those people are naturally in a friendly atti- 

 tude toward the people of this country. The pioneer development and 

 the gaining of their independence was under much the same conditions 

 as the United States. They have modeled their constitution largely 

 after the constitution of the United States, and the two peoples have 

 much in common. It is strange that up to this time we have had so 

 little to do with one another and that we know so little of one another, 

 but the chances are that there will be an increased trade and that it 

 may be of mutual advantage to both countries. 



