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"5. The seed should be as clean as possible, and grown in the 

 neighbourhood, in order that it may be well acclimatised. It is 

 more important, and much more economical, to work the ground 

 thoroughly at the time of sowing the seed than to sow a heavier 

 quantity of seed in badly prepared ground. During its first 

 season the alfalfa should be lightly stocked, and, if possible, 

 mown. 



3. Champion Hereford Bull, Cameronlvn 27th, o years old. — Owned by 



Sr. Celedonio Peredo, Villa Maria. Won the Hereford Breeders' Cud, 



Conjunto Prize (with two others), Leonardo Pereyra Cup, Cipriano 



J. Quesada Cup, Hereford Herd Book Society 's Cup, and Nicanor 



OHvera Cup. 



"I have met with more prosperity, and found the country 

 opening up faster, in the alfalfa district than in any other 

 throughout Argentina. Yet it must not be supposed that 

 estancia business here is devoid of drawbacks. Chief of these 

 in many parts, and especially throughout the southern parts of 

 Cordova, is the question of water supply, which, though 

 abundant, is often so undrinkably bitter that it will not- be 

 approached even by the cattle. Where this is the case, it is the 

 ■custom to make wide, shallow wells, which to some extent catch 

 the surface drainage. Aigain, the wind that blows incessantly 



