ABGEXTIXA 



87 



"Let lis recapitulate. In the north of Corrientes we find cheap 

 breeding camps, which improve rapidly on being grazed by 

 horned stock, but are unsuitable for sheep. The border-line of 

 the provinces is a halting place, where stock may be interchanged 

 and acclimatised. Finally, on the rich lands near the delta, 

 sheep-breeding, general agriculture, and the fattening of 

 northern cattle may be successfully combined. Here are all 

 the advantages of a near cash market and cheap freights for 

 produce, an ocean port for wool and grain, saladeros for rough 

 stock, and the great freezing factories at hand to absorb un- 

 limited quantities of finer-bred steers and wethers. 



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First Prize Fat Shorthorn Bullock, Argentina. 



Live Weight, 2112 lbs. Dead Weight, 1919 lbs. Sold for £393 to 



Freezing Co. 



"There is much hope for the future of Entre Rios and her 

 sister lands. Argentine Governors are generally large land- 

 holders, and sometimes practical estancieros as well. In these 

 provinces they are rapidly beginning to understand that their 

 welfare is bound up with a steady development of the country's 

 resources rather than in the arena of politics. In the near 

 future, also, the contending railroads must, perforce, cease from 

 troubling, consolidating, and extending their systems to that 

 mutual benefit of colonist and shareholder for which they were 

 originally created. Then, from the Alto Parana, from the rich 



