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which has taken place in the export trade in frozen mutton 

 and live sheep ; the increasing attention given to the raising 

 of fat cattle for export, with the consequent neglect of 

 sheep husbandry ; the probability that any gain in production 

 of wool in the undeveloped Southern sections of the republic 

 will be off-set by a reduction in the Northern and Central 

 provinces, where the tide of immigration will shortly tend 

 to reduce the area devoted to sheep growing — all, in the 

 Minister's estimation, support the theory that Argentina has 

 reached its maximum as a wool producer. The opening of 

 the land to agriculture will, he thinks, tend to restrict the 

 area devoted to wool growing in the warmer sections of 

 Argentina, while the great mass of the Italian immigrants 

 now going to that country will, for climatic reasons, prefer 

 the more agreeable temperature of the north of Argentina 

 to the less hospitable climate further south. He says " two- 

 thirds of the immigrants now coming here are Italians. 

 Using our own experience as a guide, it seems probable that 

 these will add but little to the development of sheep 

 husbandry in the far southern portion of the Republic while 

 opportunity is found to settle in the warmer and more closely 

 populated portions of the country, where they are more than 

 reasonably sure to succeed in accumulating a modest com- 

 petence, as a result of their labour upon small farms and in 

 different industries." 



In 1 896 the Argentine Republic exported 413,000,000 lbs. 

 of wool, 366,000,000 lbs. of which were consigned to Europe, 

 45,000,000 lbs. going to the United Kingdom. 



Formerly the bulk of the exports consisted of criollo or 

 merino wool, but a large proportion is now made up of 

 "cross-Lincoln," which is estimated to form about 65 per 

 cent, of the annual clip. 



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Among the experiments conducted by institutions receiving 

 a share of the Parliamentary grant in aid of agricultural 

 education was an investigation carried out by the Highland 

 and Agricultural Society of Scotland into the effect upon 



