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those of meat, have shown very wide variations ; 

 the records of 1907-8, when nearly seven million 

 tons of wheat, linseed, maize and oats were 

 exported, wheat that year amounting to 15,908,786 

 quarters, have been followed by very moderate 

 seasons till the present season, 1912-13. * 



Excluding for the moment the jerked beef 

 trade, the area contributing in the main these 

 remarkable totals of agricultural and pastoral 

 produce is small compared to the total area of the 

 Republic. An open fan placed on a map of the 

 Argentine with the handle at Buenos Ayres, the 

 upper stick reaching to the northern boundary of 

 the province of Santa Fe, pointing a little West of 

 due North, and the lower stick reaching to a point 

 about 100 miles South of Bahia Blanca, will 

 practically cover the area in which these products 

 are grown. A small portion of the Province of 

 Buenos Ayres is not included. If we extend the 

 lower stick in a line with the upper one, the area 

 of sea covered will approximately make up for that 

 omitted. The extreme points of the fan will be 

 950 miles apart, and the extreme breadth will 

 reach out 475 miles towards the interior. 



Though the Provinces of Buenos Ayres, Santa 

 F6 and Cordoba, together with the Territory of the 

 Pampa Central, account for only 75,484,000 acres 



1 Wheat harvest begins in December, maize harvest 

 in March. 



