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BULLETIN 1409, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
served fish, malt, beans, rice, cheese, eggs, fresh fruit, yerba mate 
(73,500 tons), sugar, peanuts, tobacco, jute bags, lubricating oils, 
kerosene, gasoline, chemicals, paints, varnishes, paper, wire, sheet 
metal, automobiles, trucks, tractors, motors, machinery of all kinds, 
building materials, vine, and locomotives and other railway equip- 
ment. 
The agricultural products exported in 1923, include those listed in 
Table 51: 
Table 51. — Argentina: Total exports of specified agricultural products, 1928 1 
Product 
Animals: 
Horses 
Asses 
Mules 
Cattle. -. — . 
, Sheep 
Goats 
Hogs 
Beef: 
Chilled and frozen 
Dried, including salted 
meats. 
Grease and tallow 
Oleomargarine and pal- 
metine. 
Stearine 
Jerked beef 
Total beef 
Mutton: Chilled and 
frozen. 
Pork: 
Frozen 
Preserved 
Lard 
Bacon 
Hams 
Total pork 
Unclassified: 
Preserved 
Extracts 
Ground meats 
Sausage casings 
Unit 
Number 
Number 
Number 
Number 
Number 
Number 
Number 
Pound . . 
Pound -. 
Pound - . 
Pound . _ 
Pound. 
Pound . 
Pound. 
Pound . 
Pound - 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound _ 
Pound . 
Pound -_ 
Pound _. 
Pound _ - 
Pound - . 
Quantity 
1,790 
6,423 
5,921 
95, 691 
17, 887 
959 
13 
1, 195, 340, 734 
1, 202, 433 
278, 963, 470 
1, 906, 869 
2, 914, 536 
10, 416, 325 
1, 490, 744, 367 
178, 784, 242 
4, 019, 808 
723, 695 
18, 8.54 
11, 442 
67, 328 
4, 841, 127 
176, 639, 166 
3, 422, 015 
24, 060, 244 
18, 897, 351 
Product 
Unclassified— Continued. 
Frozen tongue 
Preserved tongue 
Other classified 
Total unclassified 
Total all meats 
Grains: 
Barley 
Corn 
Corn meal 
Oats 
Rye 
Wheat 
Wheat flour 
Rice 
Other products: 
Butter 
Cheese 
Sugar 
Wool 
Oil cake and oil-cake 
meal. 
Peanuts 
Potatoes 
Tobacco 
Hides and skins 
Flaxseed 
Linseed oil 
Quebracho extract 
Grape juice 
Argentine wines 
Wine sediments 
Beer 
Unit 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound . 
BusheL 
BusheL 
BusheL 
Bushel. 
Bushel- 
Bushel. 
BarreL. 
Pound - 
Pound . 
Pound - 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound _ 
Pound . 
Pound . 
Pound - 
Pound . 
Bushel. 
Pound. 
Pound . 
Pound. 
Gallon. 
Pound . 
Pound. 
Quantity 
265 
1, 999, 784 
61, 664, 867 
286, 683, 692 
1, 961, 053, 428 
2, 858, 310 
112, 561, 167 
12, 059 
31,584,546 
2, 757, 679 
136, 753. 431 
923, 300 
72, 337, 335 
12, 684, 865 
2,877 
303, 691, 534 
80, 485, 537 
12, 372, 096 
1, 178, 836 
516, 705 
388, 319, 183 
40, 776, 754 
1, 144, 240 
366, 977, 716 
485, 382 
437, 649 
8, 061, 885 
62, 582 
1 Compiled from Argentine Republic. Direccion general de estadistica de la nacion. El comercio exte- 
rior Argentino en 1923 y 1922. Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kraft, impresor, 1924. Boletin 191. 
ECONOMIC FACTORS 
LABOR 
Supply 
Few complaints are heard of scarcity of farm labor. Farm labor 
consists principally of native peons, Italian and Kussian peasants, 
and Indians. The Indians are employed during the harvest season 
in the sugar-cane fields of Tucuman and the cotton fields of the Chaco 
country, and at other times in the quebracho and yerba mate estab- 
lishments. In the cereal region farming is organized to utilize 
extensive methods — modern machinery such as gang plows and 
combined harvesters and threshers — so that the number of men 
required in proportion to the area cultivated is relatively small and 
economical. It seems probable that any material increase in the 
