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BULLETIN 1409 XJ. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
CROPS 
Until recent years the development of crop production in Argen- 
tina was comparatively slow. Indians who occupied the country 
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Fig. 8.— A typical herd of cattle on a large estate of Argentina 
Fig. 9.— Loading export beef onto an ocean-going steamer at Buenos Aires 
before the coming of the Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century 
were hunters and meat eaters. They had no agriculture except small 
plots of corn and beans and a few other vegetables in garden patches 
