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Z may remark here that an attempt to keep pace with 

 the public discussion, as exemplified in the columns of 

 the press, and in the form of cuttings, had to be aban- 

 doned in the third year: the collection had grown so 

 unwieldy as to be absolutely useless for any purposes 

 of reference. 



I may here be permitted to recall an observation 

 which appeared in no less a staid authority as the En- 

 cyclopedia Britannica, regarding the press in the Ar- 

 gentine Republic, in which it was stated that its char- 

 acteristics feature was an unlimited capacity for pla- 

 giarism. Having been a journalist for many years I 

 can appreciate the sentiment. 



Referring to the average plaint raised in the press 

 in favour of the Argentine farmer a review of back 

 numbers of any of our leading periodicals will effecti- 

 vely convince the student* of Argentine Agricultural 

 Problems of the truth of the saying that there is no- 

 thing new under the sun, and much less any novelty 

 on the Argentine farmer's earth. 



The demand of scribes and intellectual folk gen- 

 erally are that the disabilities of our farmers shall dis- 

 appear, and, since with the erection of Elevators some 

 50 per cent, thereof, at least will so disappear, then un- 

 doubtedly the occasion for much penmanship ou old 

 themes will vaniah too, for when all is said and done 

 even pressmen: are glad of something new to write 

 upon. Then in the interests of all, farmers, Press -ind 

 State generally, I humbly beg to be allowed to insist 

 on something being done, but not something in the 

 vamie sense of the word, but in its definitive Qv^ept- 

 ance, that is Elevators and Grain Granaries. 



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