220 ARGENTINE WHEAT EXPORTS. 

of 1,000 sheep each. Two farmers own 50,000 sheep each, 
and one has 258,000 on a farm of 800,000 acres. 
With the exception of the island of South Georgia, 
of which the latitude corresponds to that of Yorkshire, 
there are no unappropriated lands. All the land leases, 
at £20 per section of 6,000 acres, were renewed by the 
Crown between the years 1892-7 for the space of 21 years, 
and station-holders have not shown any disposition to sell 
out or to transfer their leases. The area occupied is returned 
at 2,317,620 acres and the total of the flocks at 780,000 
sheep. : 

EXPORT OF WHEAT FROM ARGENTINA. 
The quantity of wheat which it is anticipated will be 
exported from the Argentine Republic during the present 
year is estimated by Mr. F. S. Clarke, Secretanyeeemetes 
Majesty’s Legation at Buenos Ayres, at some 2,000,000 tons, 
against a total of about 1,763,000 tons in 1899; and in 
support of this estimate it may be noted that according to 
the Argentine Trade Returns the actual quantity of wheat 
exported in the first six months of this year has amounted to 
1,500,000 tons as compared with over a million tons for the 
same period of last year. Noestimate of production has been 
issued by the Argentine Ministry referring to the current 
season, but the estimated area sown with wheat for the 
harvest 1899-1900 was Officially stated to be about 400,000 
acres more than in the previous year, and Mr. Vice Consul 
Hankin, in his report on Buenos Ayres, states that a larger 
crop has been gathered this year than ever before. 
The following table shows the fluctuations which have taken 
place in the wheat export during the past eight years. The 
small quantity exported in certain years was due to the 
