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CATTLE AND DAUiY FARMING. 



TJBUGMJAY. 



CATTLE AND CATTIE-BREEDING IN URUGUAY. 



EXIBAOXS FROM A JIEPOBT (PTTBLISBED IN CONSULAB REPORT No. 73, FOR FEB- 

 BUASr, 1887), BY MB. JOHN E. BAGON, OBABQlS D'AFFAIRES AT MONTEVIDEO. 



CLIMATE. 



The climate is by no means tropical, but temperate, somewhat similar 

 to that of the Chestnut range of Upper Italy. 



The thermometer (Fahrenheit's) scarcely ever marks 95 degrees in the 

 summer, the general mean being about 65, and should the degree of 90 

 remain for two days it invariably gives rise to a thunder-storm, which 

 cools and freshens the air in the most astonishing manner. The winters 

 are mild, and though frosts are frequent in June and July, they do not 

 affect the vegetation to any extent. The air is unusually pure, the at- 

 mosphere even in Montevideo, notwithstanding the location of the city 

 immediately on the sea and river, quite dry. Indeed, the whole Eepub- 

 lic enjoys an enviable reputation for salubrity. 



TALUE OF LANDS AND STOCK. 



The aggregate value of real estate and stock was estimated officially 

 in 1883 at $237,496,092, and is now supposed to be at least a fourth 

 more, $296,870,115. To this should be added about $125,000,000 in- 

 vested in other property, making in all $421,870,115. 



'The proprietors of the lands and stock are reckoned at 41,760, and 

 it will, be a little strange to know that more than one-half of this prop- 

 erty is owned by foreigners, as will appear from the following tablg 

 copied from the Estadistica-General for 1885 : 



