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"In Eiitre Rios wlieat-sowing is not, as in the Panipa region, a 

 mere preliminary to laying down alfalfa. That plant has here 

 a life of three to six years, but it does not attain the phenomenal 

 growth of the west, nor, in the absence of near surface strata of 

 water, is it so capable of withstanding a prolonged drought. 

 Agriculture here stands purely on its own general meriLs. The 

 lesson to be learned by the colonists is that farming for cereals 

 alone is next-of-kin to pitch-and-toss, and that stock give the 

 most sure and profitable returns when combined with intelligent 

 agriculture. This fact has been sufficiently demonstrated by 

 long years of bitter experience in our own colonies and by the 

 farmers of the United States. 



4. Hereford Cow, In a: ::.Vjii, ■. u.uh ui.i. -Owned by Messrs. C. E. and 

 B. Duggan, Hanta 8abina. Won the 1'. and G Hughes' Cup. 



"The province to-day carries 3,000,000 head of cattle, and 

 although most of them, as in Corrientes, are native bred, they 

 contain a growing leaven of finer breeds, notably Shorthorn, 

 which are rapidly improving the mass. The diseases to which 

 these are subject are the same as in the other northern and 

 western provinces, on which I have already touched. Carbuncle 

 is less prevalent than in Cordova, and apparently does not get 



