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of price. An Argentine breeder in 1913 paid $34,400 for a Short- 

 horn bull, the highest price up to that time ever paid for a bull of 

 any breed. Although the Argentine herds have been brought to a 

 high standard, their owners are constantly in the market for 

 breeding animals to bring in fresh blood or to improve the quality 

 of the herds. This trade has heretofore gone almost entirely to 

 Great Britain, and it has been one of the most profitable outlets 

 which British breeders have had. The Commerce Reports of 

 May 15, 1916, contains this significant statement; "The importa- 

 tion of fine cattle and sheep from England into Argentina is con- 

 tinuing in spite of the war. A shipment of shorthorn cattle from 

 Liverpool for Buenos Aires is announced in La Razon for April 14, 

 and another shipment is expected in May." The business and 

 social relations between British and Argentine breeders are close. 

 British judges nearly always officiate at the leading Argentine 

 shows, and there is no recollection thus far of a single in- 

 stance of a North American breeder having been asked to judge 

 at an Argentine show. Some authorities look for a positive 

 and beneficial effect on the United States beef cattle industry 

 in Argentina's probable demand for breeding animals from the 

 United States. 



. United States and Canada. The total area of Canada is one 

 and one-fourth times as large as the United States, but the popu- 

 lation (1911 census, 7,206,643) is only one-thirteenth as large. As 

 an exporter of wheat, oats, and flaxseed Canada has now become 

 one of the strongest countries in the world. Omitting the Yukon 

 and the Northwest territories, the nine organized provinces of 

 Canada contain a total land area of 977,585,513 acres, of which 

 109,948,988 acres, or 11.25 per cent, is now occupied as farm land. 

 The estimate of possible farm land in these nine provinces is 

 358,162,190 acres, or 36 per cent of the total area. In other 

 words, less than one-third the available land in these provinces 

 is under cultivation. 



The following table shows Canada's producing power in the 

 years 1914 and 1915. 



Yield and Value of Field Crops in Canada, 1914, 1915. Prc-War Basis. 



