^art I: Co-operation and Association 



ARGENTINA. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 



I. — Work of the argentine forestry society. — From the 

 last report presented at the general meeting, it appears that this important 

 association again last year exerted very efficient action for the defence and 

 increase of the national flora. Without counting the usual propaganda in 

 behalf of reafforestation, various prizes have been offered for the best plant- 

 ations of forest trees, fruit trees, olive trees etc; arbor day was celebrated with 

 the greatest solemnity in the whole repubUc and 300,000 trees and 4,000 

 kg. of seeds of various forest trees were planted. In addition to this, the 

 society intends to institute associations, in various centres of the interior 

 which will be affihated to it and support it in its work. It is founding 

 a special nursery for forest trees, to facilitate the selection of the species 

 best suited to the various latitudes. The society, finally, is preparing a 

 bill for a forestry code. 



(Summarised from the Nacion, December, 1913). 



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2. — Cow TESTING ASSOCIATIONS. — As we have had occasion 

 more than once to point out (i), livestock improvement has made great 

 progress in Argentina in the last twenty years, especially owing to the 

 action of the Rural Society. The greatest care has been bestowed on the 



(i) See especially in. tlic nimiber of this Bulletin for October, 1913, the arride: " Some 

 Indications of the Economic and Agricultural Progress of Argentina. " 



