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very little fat. These cattle are chiefly run on unimproved 

 camps, and are very roughly treated in every way. 



Beef-making in Argentina is almost exclusively a grazing 

 business, but it is no longer on the open range basis (says 

 Mr. C. F. Curtis in The Breeders'' Gazette, Chicago). " It is 

 more of a farm pasture business, but the pastures are very 

 large. Few of the cattle seen at the packing plants have ever 

 tasted grain. The greater part of the cattle as they come to 





3. Champion Hereford Bull, Cameeonian 27th, 3 years old. Owned by Sr. 

 Celedonio Peredo, Villa Maria. Won the Hereford Breeders' Cup, Coujunto 

 Prize (with two others), Leonardo Pereyra Cup, Cipriano J. Quesada Cup, 

 Hereford Herd Book Society's Cup, and Nicanor Olivera Cup. 



market are of uniform quality, showing good breeding, and 

 carrying plenty of flesh for good export beef. They show 

 better breeding than either the farm cattle or the range stock 

 of any other country that is producing beef on a large scale. 

 Most of the cattle from the large estancias are bought direct 

 by the packers or frigorificos, as they are called. A represen- 

 tative of the packing-house visits the estancias, inspects the 

 saleable stock, and reports to his firm on the number of animals, 

 condition, and feed, and sends an estimate of the average 



