THE WORLD'S MEAT SUPPLY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 221, 6 June 1918, Page 6

THE WORLD'S MEAT SUPPLY

FUTURE OF INNER BRAZIL.

Awav in the heart of South America, on the headwaters of the Upper Paw cuay, are little settlement;) of Bran lans, of whom some are curiously English m appearance. Tho explanation given is that when piracy fell on evil days -J. shipload of British buccaneer* took refuge m Hid River Plate, and llien made tteir way up the Paraguay till the- could set no farther, and settled down to a pas(oral life. Their "descendants resemble the otlior natives in language and niunneis, but retain an Bnglieli cast of countenance. This and many other interesting sidelights on life in the great Ulterior Brazilian province of Matto Grosso wo given in an article by Piulip Larcom, Which appears in the Apn num.bor or ■•■Backwood's Magazine." "Matto .<-'rosso" ears Mr. Larcom, "is a country as yet in its Infancy, but it has before it an assured future. All over the world the lands of great spaces whero the rattlerancher still holds out are becoming narrowed by the slow but resistless encroachrnenls of the farmer and the pbngli. Mtire territories which 25 years ago were ranges almo3t without a fence are to-day granancK. Yet the world must have meat. So the rancher moves on, a modern Alexander, socking new worlds to conquer. Hβ n b "i ;m - io move north in the Argenis now one of 1 is strongholtts. Another generation will probably nee him out oi tho rich central lanus of that country to a very large- extent. Paraguay will then begin to be exp oited in earnest, and the great tracts of Jlatto Grosso and Uoyas will be .opened up foritho production of meat. Something of this sort might be written about tho Australian Northern Territory, but as> tilings are going at present tho Brazilians will bo ahead of us,