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lights, motion pictures, automobiles, telephones, radio outfits, and 
other modern conveniences unknown in those days. There are the 
same great expanses of virgin prairie, herds of fat cattle and horses, 
interminable wire fences, absence of graded roads, and great distances 
between houses, schools, and small towns. The many small towns 
have wide, unpaved streets that are heavy with dust in dry weather 
and are seas of mud in wet weather. Although surrounded by fertile 
regions, they are quiet, sleepy, and unprogressive largely because of 
the sparse population and lack of purchasing power. 
Obviously, the agricultural and economical development of Argen- 
tina waits on population and change of organization from a land of 
large estates with absentee landlords to a system of smaller holdings 
by families that make their living on the land and contribute by their 
labor and purchasing power to the development of the country and 
to the national welfare and prosperity. 
SOURCES OF INFORMATION RELATING TO ARGENTINA 
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agri- 
culture, Washington, D. C. Furnishes agricultural and livestock statistics, crop 
reports, export and import statistics, and data relating to economic factors of 
production. 
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of 
Commerce, Washington, D. C. Furnishes statistics and information relating to 
manufactures, transportation, trade regulations and opportunities, commerce, and 
economic factors of business. 
The Consular Service, United States Department of State, Washington, D. C. 
Furnishes information relating to passports, immigration laws and regulations, 
tariffs, and commerce. 
The Pan-American Union, Washington, D. C. Has a trade commissioner, a 
library of publications relating to Argentina, is in constant communication with 
the Argentine embassy, and publishes statistical, descriptive, and news data 
periodically. 
The American consul at Buenos Aires' can supply the latest information regard- 
ing laws and regulations relating to imports and exports, tariffs, licenses, travel, 
immigration, and business situations. 
The commercial attache of the American embassy at Buenos Aires can supply 
the latest information relating to particular branches of trade and industry or 
to business situations arid opportunities in particular cities or sections. 
Both the American consul and the commercial attache are in the best situation 
to obtain specific information from or relating to any particular business firm, 
institution, or branch of the Argentine Federal Government. 
The International Institute of Agriculture at Rome cables and publishes crop 
and livestock reports and statistics periodically. 
PARAGUAY 13 
Paraguay, is a small country, relatively speaking, off the main line 
of tourist travel, and although its capital city was founded in 1537, 
it is but little known in the United States except as a place on the 
map, the principal source of yerba mate or Paraguayan tea, a country 
which supported the celebrated dictator, Francia, and lost most of its 
adult male population in the destructive war with the combined 
forces of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil in 1865-1872. Paraguay 
is a most attractive and interesting country of primitive cus- 
toms and great undeveloped natural resources. Because of these 
facts and the further fact that it has approximately 50,000,000 
acres of fertile land well adapted to agriculture and livestock, it is 
13 With the collaboration of G. B. L. Arncr, agricultural statistician. 
