68 BULLETIN 1409, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Instead of corn cribs, "trojes" are erected (fig. 18). These are 
made by setting up four or more poles in a square or circle and sur- 
rounding them with woven wire fencing or wire fencing interwoven 
with cornstalks, bamboo, or brush. They are without roof or 
cover and the husked corn is carried in sacks up a ladder and emptied 
into the inclosure. 
There is more diversity in the houses of peons and laborers than 
in those of proprietors and tenants. On the large ranches and sugar 
estates where from 10 to 300 or more laborers are employed, single 
rooms are built of brick or adobe in solid rows, sometimes with, but 
often without, floors, windows, fireplaces, or verandas in front. 
Isolated houses of this character in the cereal region may have one, 
two, or more rooms end to end, but rarely more than three. Most 
of them have the outdoor -mud or brick oven. Few of them have 
any other shelter or structure than the rooms occupied by the laborer 
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Fig. 18.—" Trojes, " native corn cribs constructed of poles and wire fencing. Southwestern Buenos 
Aires, Argentina, May, 1924 
and his family. In the subtropical region of the north the structures 
occupied by the peons and Indians are even more primitive. Most 
of them are adobe huts, or huts made of poles or bamboo partially 
chinked with mud. Many are made of a few poles set in the ground 
with some brush piled on top and on three sides, which furnish shade 
in summer but little or no protection against rain or the cold pamperos 
of winter. 
TAXES 
From the beginning the national and provincial legislatures have 
been composed almost exclusively of landowners and livestock pro- 
ducers who have naturally seen to it that the public revenues should 
be raised by tariffs on imports, imposts on exports, and licenses to 
buy, sell, or transport commodities, thus leaving the land and live- 
stock practically exempt from taxation. The owner of livestock 
pays no taxes until he attempts to move them out of the local jurisdic- 
tion, which he can not do without a permit, for which he pays so 
