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there seems to be no reason why the export of butter should 

 not equal or surpass that of any other country in the world. 

 The quality is indicated by the fact that the price obtained for 

 Argentine butter in London was in 1902 lower than that of 

 Danish and Swedish butter only. Butter is being exported in 

 increasing quantities both to Great Britain and South Africa, 

 and threatens the French, Irish, and Danish butter now largely 

 used in Brazil. The export of butter in 1902 is given as 

 4,103 tons, an increase of 180 per cent, over the quantity in 190 1, 

 which was itself double the amount exported in 1900. 



Mr. Harford was informed that there is much land, which will 

 only carry 300 cattle per square league (6,600 acres), that will 

 carry 3,000 when laid down to lucerne ; two crops of wheat being 

 first taken off, after which the lucerne, if not permanent, will 

 yield three or four crops a year for some twenty years without 

 re-sowing. 



A dairy show is annually held at Buenos Ay res, and very fair 

 cheese is also exhibited. 



Farm Book-keeping in Germany. 



The book-keeping department of the German Agricultural 

 Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft) has for its 

 object the furthering of agricultural book-keeping in general, 

 and in particular the assisting of the members of the society 

 with the keeping of their farm accounts and books. These 

 objects it attains in a variety of ways, viz. : — 



1. By the preparation and distribution of the most suitable 

 forms for the several farm accounts, e.g., cash b^ok, wages book, 

 as well as by the issue of books describing in detail the system 

 of book-keeping recommended by the department. The first 

 edition of these books,* which was issued in 1896 on the opening 



* Landw irtsch aft lie he Buchfiihrung, Teil I. unci II, von Dr. Aereboe. Price, 2s. 

 each. 



