AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AMERICA 
Table 59. — Paraguay: Production of animal by-products, calendar years 
89 
Product 
1922 
1923 
1924 
Product 
1922 
1923 
1924 
Pounds 
Pounds 
428, 030 
65, 622 
1,530 
2, 972, 855 
3, 682, 083 
1, 704, 286 
Pounds 
335, 899 
23, 408 
31 
3, 504, 141 
769, 683 
1, 379, 242 
Pounds 
Pounds 
31,658 
42,143 
118,319 
84,928 
223,106 
7,418 
Pounds 
19, 863 
Preserved tongues 
20,860 
4,672 
Preserved meat 
Horns 
40, 316 
41,687 
Tallow 
530, 962 
3, 513, 085 
51,279 
Jerked beef. 
Bones. .. 
56, 409 
Hair.. 
2,676 
The greatest need of the Paraguayan cattle industry is the improve- 
ment of transportation facilities both within the country and to the 
seaboard. Better transportation would make it possible to market 
fresh meat abroad, which seems to be impossible at present, and would 
at the same time make it possible to market less perishable meat 
products to better advantage in competition with neighboring 
countries. So long as transportation conditions are as poor as at 
present there is little incentive for Paraguayan cattlemen to improve 
their stock or to expand the industry into the still less accessible 
Chaco region. 
Thus while within the country the cattle industry is already of 
great importance, as far as the outside world is concerned, Paraguay- 
is chiefly important as a great potential source of beef supplies which 
may be developed and drawn upon when the productive capacities 
of Argentina and Uruguay have been reached. 
PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
Price data in Paraguay are not very satisfactory because of wide 
variations in quality and between different markets, as well as the 
fluctuating value of the peso. Expressed in currency of the United 
States, the peso has ranged in value from 1^ cents to 2J/£ cents in 
the two years, 1923 and 1924. If the peso be taken as equal to 2 
cents, the range of prices in 1923 would be about as listed in Table 60. 
Table 60. — Range in price of various commodities in Paraguay, 1923 
Item 
Unit 
Price range 
Item 
Unit 
Price range 
Low 
High 
Low 
High 
Tobacco: 
Pound . . 
Pound . . 
Pound .. 
Pound . . 
Bushel. . 
Head- 
Head—. 
Head- 
Head.— 
Head- 
Dollars 
0.025 
.082 
.044 
.088 
.254 
13.00 
8.00 
5.00 
4.00 
10.00 
Dollars 
0.038 
.109 
.045 
.238 
1.27 
18.00 
17.00 
12.00 
17.00 
24.00 
Head.... 
Head.... 
Head.... 
Head- 
Pound . . 
Pound . . 
Acre 
Acre 
Day 
Month.. 
Dollars 
6.00 
16.00 
.60 
3.00 
.046 
.028 
2.40 
.80 
.15 
3.00 
Dollars 
15.00 
Para (best).. . . --= 
Mules . 
33.00 
3.00 
9.00 
Corn 
.138 
Mutton .. 
.046 
18.12 
Heifers. . . . . 
Uncultivated land 
13.20 
Cows ..... .. . 
.50 
Horses . ... 
Farm wages.. _ . 
5.80 
1 East of Parana River; west of the river land is cheaper. 
