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tract are the chief products. 1 Vineyards in 19 10 

 occupied over 250,000 acres, and sugar cane 

 some 180,000 acres. In both cases there is 

 considerable room for expansion to supply the 

 demands of the home market. The population 

 of the Argentine at the moment is in dispute, the 

 estimates varying from 6} million to g} million. 

 Without attempting to adjudicate between these 

 figures, the capital, Buenos Ayres, on the census 

 figures of 1910 accounts for some 1,250,000. A 

 rough summary of that census for the other towns 

 accounts for a further 1,120,000, showing nearly 

 2\ million town dwellers out of a total of about 

 6,000,000. 



With these preliminary remarks, let us sum- 

 marise in the briefest possible manner the prospects 

 of the pastoral and agricultural industries. Of 

 recent years special districts have gradually 

 come to be associated with certain crops. There 

 have also been certain general tendencies. Wheat 

 has been utilised as a breaking crop for establish- 

 ing lucerne as a permanent fodder plant, the 

 practice being to sow it with the third crop of 

 wheat as we sow clover seeds with barley. An 

 essential requirement of this plant is to get its 

 roots down to the permanent water strata. It 



1 191 1 — Exports of Quebracho .. 500,000 tons. 

 Extract . . . . . . 84,000 tons 



Other industries are 400 flour mills, 40 breweries, 



