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Our aims towards Agricultural prosperity are 

 simple: on one hand to increase our profits and on the 

 other to reduce our costs. We all recognise that to ob- 

 tain greater gains than previously we must combine, 

 or at least there must be united action. All this urging 

 to economies and action is useless if nothing is done 

 practically, for no combination will result from good 

 advice if good advice is alone tendered. This is evi- 

 dent in the poor results of previous Government efforts 

 up to date since there is a plethora of good advice in 

 every Government publication, and this without any 

 appreciable results practically. 



THE DISCUSSION OF OUR AGRICULTURAL 

 PROBLEMS. 



When one reviews the enormous output of litera- 

 ture from the pens of all arfd sundry regarding the pro- 

 blems which eternally afflict our agriculture, one is 

 amazed that such a prolixity of discussion should achieve 

 such little practical result. 



Add to this the daily average debating of our press, 

 the mnurneraV.e publications which are issued 

 under the guidance of the Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture, many of which are full of excellent advice, which 

 can be gleaned from studies of all the world's litera- 

 ture and which demonstrate application on the part of 

 the employees, and one must be in reality imiared 

 against surprise not to be astonished at the mountain 

 of intellectual labour which our agriculturists draw 

 from the thinking population. 



To cite one item alone, the question of farm credit; 

 carelessly compiled statistics of what has appeared in ; 

 reference to this matter in two of our leading news- 

 papers during the !ast five years, shows that no less 

 than one thousand observations have been made in dif- 

 ferent articles dedicated towards solving the difficul- 

 ties of farming in cereals. 



A glance back over the files of the newspapers of 

 the Capital demonstrates that in the same period no 

 less than ten thousand articles have been printed con- 

 cerning the sack question alone. 



To the lover of statistics I venture to suggest that 

 there is an ample field here for observation, and would 

 hint that the compiling of figures concerning the 

 amount of publicity referring to the disabilities of 

 farming in the Argentine Republic would be highly in- 

 teresting. Regarding my own efforts to keep records 



