120 THE WOBLD'S MEAT FUTURE 



In describing the plains of Patagonia recently one writer 

 says : ' ' Shut your eyes and think of yourself with a good nag 

 between your legs going at an easy canter over the soft and 

 grassy Panipa. Above you a tunjuoise sky and a brilliant sun, 

 below you blue lakes, soft turf and sparkling streams, on the 

 lakes and rivers black headed swans and pinky winged flamin- 

 goes, geese, and ducks galore, and now and then a jacksnipe. 

 Small foxes play about you like kittens, and ostriches leg it 

 away a hundred yards ahead of you, their long necks stretched 

 out, and their wings highly lifted to help them out of the danger 

 zone. The life and place so enchanted me that a year later 

 I became the owner of much camp, 16 leagues, and many sheep. 

 In the middle of my property is a lake five miles by two miles 

 across." The farm is now earning 50 per cent, dividends; and 

 this is a true picture of Patagonia. There is one British com- 

 pany there owning six million acres of land upon which there 

 are 1,500,000 sheep and which regularly imports studs from Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand, or they did until shipping facilities 

 failed them. In Tierra del Fuego the company owns also 

 2,250,000 acres of good sheep country. The manager of this is 

 also a New Zealander like so many men in Patagonia. Chile can 

 be depended upon for frozen mutton in increasing quantities, 

 but beef cannot be looked for in any but limited amounts. 



First Prize Shorthorn Cow, Cairxcosh Jii.t, I. ui-ii Royal 

 Show, 1915. Exhibited by Mr. W. M. Cazalet. 



