ARGENTINE AS A MARKET.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 10

ARGENTINE AS A MARKET.

-. • .ENGLISH STUD STOCK PREFERRED. Zealand ..sheepbrecder 'said, 'v Wnen'coiiversing with: a Dominion reprc- - 'yesterday\\ that lie would not ' like to hold out much-prospect of Now Zealand doing -avpayablo . business ' in v.--'Bhgep and cattle, with th© Argentine for soni.e; s tim6..tp come. Speaking of tho: -Bifock'.,condi'tibn''of-the -'big republic, ' be'said thatihe Lincoln was "at present ihe'chict of sheep, and the. /- Shropshire .the fat sheep. •*. . .. " • Continuing 'pii J 'tho subject/of a trade . .stobk between hero aiid tho Argentine, /lie', said' thatthe * position j was : oiie'-whicli it would. ,bo well '..to. r '"\ thoroughly:" Understand; -'and -it, was , therefore a:subjccfc upfm which ho would . : hear-the -views ; : 'of -• rii&i". who ;, had.infoMation of value. 1 to : give. He : , h&'d;s'6me practical, knowledge of agricul-tufal-oonditions • abroad,' 'arid- after' ;V.sttldying the.;iuatterVfor .a'good while ,\kte]y had formed a;Vdefinito opinion - regarding iti-,... \ 'His'opiUioh\was'.that it'would not bo' : , wise rto; endeavour, to "get into- the .•: ' > N6w. was; a !youn'g'country," whicli; Had-not yet - stopped* importing* frpm ;Eugland.' :.v '''Do .'you .think;" 3i6-wehti ; 'on, - *-the -'WiU'' 1 ; seiid; to/ New 'Zealand.- for ,what;:;they can.; £ot '. from- .: England, :• when-' they•; know that ''New Zealand hajs.to go.tp England for sheep?. I; am 'not' decryiiig New Zealand, .but •; stating.'a.'fact—tho fact that we import' shcfepr-cbntinuously' from : England,;, ; and. we 'ard in • jie'cd-of< stillVgrcater .V ti6ris.;Mfc is only-! reasonable - . the . ;.A'rgentine 'men will go-to England; for. , th&r sheep. :-• In tho future they may v want 'ours, 5 -but.we caiino t v f oi*ce■ the'time uptiit(them;... . , - tho-case" of the.-TJnitrid .States, V-. which', tried-to, introduce its : V cattle ,td r a rid' failed.*. The; Hereford :.Br^edofs'Association of .United State's- made\great:-'effortß- : 'to{es^; ; ' 'Am^ricam . ;;republicj : ,l)ut; of/ I ;•; the; overtures, "and'"got), their'stock front ! '! -.England. .They ■ simply .•couldl* 'not;' '. manage••to-'get 4 ,in' r such:% hold;'did; landj'. ; :without': effort, maintain.- on: thei : : jnarket:" ' ~v ' •