CATTLE BREEDING 
15 milreis, £3 17s. 5%tZ. a sack — an increase in price of 
4,628 milreis = 6s. 2d. per sack, on the sales of 1911. 
The other exports from the State of Sao Paulo are 
flour, mandioca, cassava, bran, tanned hides, horns, fruit 
(pineapples, bananas, cocoanuts, abacates [alligator 
pears], oranges, tangerines, etc.), wax, timber (chiefly 
jacaranda or rosewood), a yearly decreasing quantity of 
cotton, steel and iron, mica, goldsmith’s dust, dried and 
preserved fish, scrap sole leather, salted and dry hides, 
wool, castor seed or bean, crystal, mate , rice, sugar, rum 
(aguardiente ), and other articles of minor importance. 
The area of the State of Sao Paulo has been put down 
at 290,876 square kilometres. 
Its population in 1908 was calculated at 3,397,000, and 
it had then more inhabitants to the square kilometre than 
any other part of Brazil. It is useless to give actual 
figures of the population, for none are reliable. Although 
this State is the most civilized in Brazil, yet a good portion 
of its western territory is still practically a terra incognita, 
so that even the best official figures are mere guesswork. 
Owing to the wonderful foresight of that great man, 
Antonio Prado -— to my mind the greatest man in Brazil 
— a new industry has been started in the State of Sao 
Paulo, which promises to be as lucrative and perhaps more 
so than the cultivation of coffee. It is the breeding of 
cattle on a gigantic scale, the magnificent prairies near 
Barretos, in the northern part of the State, being em¬ 
ployed for the purpose. Slaughter-houses and refrigerat¬ 
ing plants of the most modern type are to be established 
there, and with such a practical man as Antonio Prado at 
the head of the enterprise, the scheme is bound, I should 
think, to be a success. With the population of the Re¬ 
public gradually increasing — it could be centupled and 
there would still be plenty of room for as many people 
again — the Sao Paulo State will one day supply most of 
the meat for the principal markets of Brazil. A good 
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