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national exhibitions; nationalisation of marks and brands; roads, 

 watering stations, and pasturage for the trooping of animals; 

 woolwashing and textile manufactures; the defence of the live- 

 stock industry ; forage, sanitary ; exportation of live-stock ; 

 freigiits; the dairy industry; practical live-stock farming schools. 

 It is hoped that such a Congress would be attended by delegations 

 of the National Government and of the rural societies through- 

 out the Republic. Neighbouring countries would also be asked 

 to be represented, in order to discuss at special sessions of the 

 Congress the four points first mentioned in the above programme. 



Summing up the possibilities of this wonderful country of 

 Argentina, they are very large, and Europe can look to that 

 country for enormous supplies, and probal)ly increased sui)plies 

 for many years to come. Naturally, as the population increases, 

 more meat will be required locally ; but there is ample room in the 

 Republic to increase the live stock at a larger rate than that of 

 the population. 



Refrigerator JNIotor Trucks. 



A representative of a large cattle estancia in Argentina 

 recently placed orders in New York for 100 refrigerator motor 

 trucks for use on several estancias. The motors are of high 

 power, with a carrying capacity of at least five tons. Each 

 car is equipped with a complete refrigerating plant, so that as 

 the car travels it will keep meats at a low temperature for 

 export shipment. The Argentine cattle-growers plan to kill 

 the cattle on the properties, dress the beef, store it in refrigerator 

 cars in a frozen state, and so send it to the seaports and ship it 

 to North America and Europe. The estancia first referred to, 

 which is to use the refrigerator motor trucks, is 260 miles from a 

 railroad station. Cattle have heretofore been driven afoot from 

 the property to the nearest railroad station or city, and there 

 slaughtered and transformed into export beef. The new plan 

 will cut out the slow movement of cattle on foot, and save much 

 time and money. It wdl also open up new meat sources. 



