228 THE WHEAT INDUSTRY 



condition by compelling the railroads to build 

 suitable warehouses. This does not entirely 

 remedy matters, for even where warehouses are 

 built, they are often not used because the Italian 

 farmers refuse to pay the storage charges. Ter- 

 minal facilities are good. Large wheat elevators 

 of the most modern type have recently been built 

 at Buenos Aires. 



Considerable milling is done in the larger cities 

 and some flour is exported. On the whole, how- 

 ever, it is not the flour, but the wheat from Argen- 

 tina, that enters into the commerce of the world. 

 Its quantity, 96,000,000 bushels exported in 1912, 

 makes it a strong factor in determining market prices. 



The Development of the Wheat Industry in 

 Argentina. - - Argentina needs capable agricultur- 

 alists with some capital who will improve farming 

 conditions. Half of the farmers now raising wheat 

 there have no intelligent idea of how it should be 

 done. The government is taking steps to assist in 

 the improvement of agricultural conditions by 

 organizing schools and establishing experiment 

 stations. It is now generally agreed that Argen- 

 tina has a promising future, though it will come 

 through a slow laborious evolution rather than by 

 a sudden development. This condition could not 

 be otherwise because of the character of the 

 population out of which agricultural progress 

 must be worked. 



