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Agriculture Abroad. 



[Feb., 



AGRICULTURE ABROAD. 



LIVE STOCK EXHIBITION IN ARGENTINA— EXPOETS 

 OF PRODUCE FROM DENMARK— WART DISEASE 

 OF POTATOES ON THE CONTINENT. 



The high place which British breeds of live stock occupy in 



the estimation of Argentine stock rearers is well shown by the 



, . . . it* opinions expressed of British classes of 

 International Live . . . -. , , . . ± . . 

 cu. i n i. *i. *i. • animals entered at the International Lave 

 Stock Exhibition a , . _ ...... , ., L . . 



. . .. btock Exhibition held at Buenos Aires 



m the Argentine. >, £ . . 



under the auspices of the Argentine Rural 



Society in September last. The Society holds an Exhibition 



every year, and it is significant that many of the breeders and 



stock raisers of the Argentine who enter animals have for a 



number of years past made purchases of British pedigree stock 



with which to improve their native strains. 



It has been the practice of the Argentine Rural Society for 

 some years to invite the Royal Agricultural Society of England 

 to appoint judges to adjudicate on several of the classes of live 

 stock exhibited. In the case of the Exhibition recently held 

 British experts were chosen to judge the Shorthorn, Hereford 

 and Aberdeen- Angus cattle, the Suffolk Punch, Shire and 

 Clydesdale horses, the Longwool and Blackfaced sheep, and 

 the pigs. There was a general agreement of opinion that the 

 Shorthorns were of excellent standard, both as regards size 

 and quality, and the Shorthorn grand champion bull was sold 

 for a record price. The number of Herefords exhibited was 

 not large, but the champion was spoken of as a perfect model 

 of the breed. The Aberdeen-Angus class was declared to be 

 above expectation, and one of the judges remarked that the 

 propaganda in favour of this breed during the last few years 

 appeared to have done much to draw attention to its merits 

 and the value of its meat. With regard to the sheep, it was 

 considered that the breeds generally should be improved and 

 efforts made to develop the size of the animals. The judges 

 referred to the pigs as being, with few exceptions, of somewhat 

 ordinary breeding. Among the Berkshires there were a 

 number of first-class animals. 



One feature of the Exhibition which is worthy of note was 

 the considerable interest shown in an exhibit of seven bulls 

 and nine cows of Holstein-Friesian cattle which were imported 

 from the United States expressly for the Exhibition, and which 



