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Mills, Elevators, and Warehouses 
Argentina is well provided with flour mills and exports some flour. 
Most of these mills have modern equipment not only for grinding 
wheat into flour, but for making various forms of macaroni, vermicelli, 
Fig. 14. — Hauling the sacks of wheat dropped by the combined header and thresher from the field. 
Southern Cordoba, Argentina, January, 1924 
and spaghetti, of which large quantities are consumed. The greatest 
number of mills is to be found in Buenos Aires and Rosario, but 
branch mills are established at strategic points in the interior. 
Fig. 15.— Freighters hauling wheat to the shipping station near Necochea, Province of Buenos 
Aires, 1924. These wagons carry from 12 to 20 tons 
There are a few elevators along the docks at Buenos Aires, Rosario, 
and Bahia Blanca for handling grain at the mills and transshipping 
from cars for export. Aside from these, there are no elevators in 
Argentina, all grain in the interior and a large portion of the grain 
