204 THE PLAIN OF THE PAMPAS 



Aires, and as late as 1883 Zeballos thought that the 

 essential result of agricultural colonization was the 

 fact that Chilean flour was beaten off the Argentine 

 market. Even to-day the districts on the outskirts 

 of the cereal area depend upon the home market. The 

 Villa Mercedes mill supplies Mendoza. Cordoba and 

 Santa Fe send their flour to Tucumdn. The price of 

 cereals still shows slight fluctuations in these parts 

 as compared with prices in Buenos Aires. 



Pastoral colonization, again, has not been entirely 



Table of Exports of the Chief Products of the Pampean region 

 [in thousands oj tons) : 



The heading " cereals " appears in the statistics of Argentine 

 exports in 1882. In 1900 the value of the agricultural produce ex- 

 ported is equal to that of the products of breeding. In 1904 it is 

 higher. 



independent of the home market. Martin de Moussy 

 says, it is true, that the area which sent the products 

 of breeding to Europe in 1865 extended as far as the 

 Sierra de Cordoba. But this statement needs correction. 

 The hides from the whole of this zone were, in point 

 of fact, sent down to the ports on the Rio de la Plata, 

 but live animals were sent to Chile from the whole of 

 the north-west of the Pampean region. It was for the 

 purpose of selling cattle to Chile that ranches were 

 multiplied about i860 in the neighbourhood of Villa 

 Mercedes and lower down, on the Rio Quinto, Jegou's 



