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tina. Uruguay has a fever line in the north, and 

 above the line there are yet vast numbers of native 

 Spanish cattle, greatly in need of improvement. 

 Hereford blood is the kind most sought to effect this 

 improvement. There is experienced the same diffi- 

 culty that our own breeders have met in attempting 

 to put northern cattle into southern pastures. The 

 non-immune cattle quite often die when exposed to 

 fever ticks. Wilson Bros., of Montevideo, who are 

 large importers of cattle for breeding purposes, 

 have expressed their opinion that northern Uruguay 

 and Brazil could use many thousands of United 

 States-bred Hereford bulls if they could be bought 

 with any assurance of immunity from fever. 



The truth is that our American breeders of both 

 Herefords and Shorthorns have no adequate concep- 

 tion of the enterprise that has already been dis- 

 played by South American cattle-growers in the 

 matter of elevating the standard of their cattle 

 stocks, probably because nearly all of their buying 

 has been done in Britain. Writing under date of 

 Aug. 15, 1913, Mr. William Tudge stated that "Col. 

 F. Braga, the leading Uruguyan breeder, has at the 

 present time 800 head of pedigree Hereford cows 

 and has just imported (on June 21) the most valu- 

 able lot of Hereford bulls, 27 in number, that ever 

 left England at one time." 



Argentina. — The chief cattle-rearing states of 

 Argentina are Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Pampa Cen- 

 tral, Santa Fe, Entre Eios and Corrientes. South 



