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pastoral country; if "Ganaderia" is more remunera- 

 tive than cereal growing we have n^ other course but 

 to improve our cereal growing until it is just as good as 

 cattle-breeding : any extension of ' Gainaderia ' ' must 

 be made outside and over and above our present agri- 

 cultural production not at its expense. 



Since Elevators are necessary then we have 

 to construct them, or condemn ourselves to a perma- 

 nent languishing and sporadically thriving agriculture, 

 for disappear it will not no matter how prosperous 

 ; ' Ganaderia ' '* may become . 



This is the most practical solution, for even con- 

 coding that ('very landowner whose lands are at pre- 

 sent dedicated to cereals, be disposed to under take the 

 management and exploiting of his own property such 

 as is advocated by the advanced disciplines of socialism, 

 how few indeed are in the position financially to invert 

 the necessary capital, without which the best of lands 

 are useless and the most profitable of undertakings im- 

 possible . 



FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR EXPORTING 

 CEREALS. 



As I remarked, however, there yet remains the 

 luostion of whether the future will warrant our persist- 

 ing in the cultivation of cereals for export. 



As we have seen all over the world there has been 

 attempted increased production of foodstuffs. 



Tn Europe this has been forced on by tiie relative 

 isolation which the Avar brought about and the neces- 

 sities of limiting the introduction of foodstuffs, through 

 the restrictions on shipping. 



In the rest of the w r orld it has had as its originating 

 cause the desire to take advantage of the situation 

 which, as the rise in prices made cereal growing. more 

 'and more profitable, spurred on to extensive cultiva- 

 tions and the inversions of large sums in the necessary 

 machinery, which inversions were favoured in the 

 greater part of the cases by the various facilities which 

 the different Governments accorded those undertaking 

 the cultivation of cereals. 



PROSPECTIVE EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED 

 STATES, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. 



The United States which but a short time previous 

 tot the war had marked a continuous decline in her 



