is abundant and the grazing sjood* Modern methods are need in carina: for 
the sheep. It was lambing season vvhile I was there. The ewes •^udders were 
-being washed (before lambing) with a disinfecting fluid to prevent a certain 
disease aiiiong the laaubs (a serious-- uaually fatal— dysenteryl. At one farm 
there were 1500 lambs one or two days old. A sleet storm came up and the 
mothers tried to protect the lanbs by standing over them. lohu grass (Btipa 
ichu) is abundant on the hills, growing in bunches. This is not considered 
a good forage ;:rass as it is coarse 'and wiry, but it was snipped and nibbled 
by the stock, mostly horses, cattle, and llamas, rather than sheep. 
while at Oroya I took an excursion dom the eastern slope to the Golonia 
Peren^ on the I^ren^ river. ujMs is a coffee plantation at an altitude of 
EOOO feet. There are here 1600000 coffee trees. 
fv/o grasses are grown here for grsen feed 'for the work animals on the 
Dlace. One is guinea ecrass, called here zaina t^j^icu-..^ maximum). The-otlBr 
is the same grass .mentioned as grown by Mr» Cleveland at Teresita, Ecuaaor, 
and there called garnalote (Axonopui^ iridif olius j . Here the name is maicillo 
{little maize). ' The wild plants were transplanted to the field. 
Bolivia. 
Bolivia lacks the coastal plain as it is cut off from the i^ciiic ■ Ocean. 
The western range of the Cordillera forms the boundary between Bolivia and 
Chile, The eastern Cordillera pa-sses south from Peru and bends the east- 
ward and then south gradually merging into the plateau which extends south 
into Argentina. Thus the western part of Bolivia is a great elevated plain 
from' Lake Titicaca to Argentina, mostly IE to 13000 feet altitude, and 
