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in these countries, to supply the British factories with 
the textile, whose importation had diminished in conse- 
quence of the civil war in the United States. 
In that epoch the Governments of the Argentine 
Republic, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Province of Cor- 
rientes, dictated measures tending to foment cultivation, 
seeds and instructions were distributed and gining 
machinery was imported. In Paraguay the cultivation 
of cotton was declared obligatory, and Mulhall proved 
the existence of 30,000 acres (12,140 hectareas) planted 
with cotton. In most of the provinces of the Argentine 
Republic, including that of Buenos Aires, which is too 
far South, many cultivation experiments were made of 
North American and Egyptian varieties, generally with 
excellent results, as regards yield and quality. In re- 
ference to the first, Mr. Mulhall stated that “it must be 
further observed that the average vield in some of the 
above provinces (Corrientes, Entre Rios, and Santa Fe) 
has been found more than double that of the Southern 
States of North America,” and, as regards the second, 
the samples sent to England appeared so satisfactory 
that, while the middle class of American cotton was 
valued at 24 pence the pound, offers at 28 pence 
for that of Parana (Entre Rios), and 30 pence for that of 
Catamarca were made. 
Unfortunately, “the cotton fever” that Mr. Mulhall 
proposed promoting by his propaganda and his work 
was extinguished by the bellic invasion of the Para- 
guayan autocrat, Francisco Solano Lopez, in the Argen- 
tine Republic and Brazil, creating a war of five years’ 
duration, which miscarried the fine agricultural move- 
ment to which we refer. 
All the details appear in the pamphlet published by 
Mr. Mulhall under the title of “ Cotton Fields of Para- 
guay and Corrientes,” being an acconnt of atour through 
these countries, “ Preceded by Annals of Cotton Planting 
