DAIRY INDUSTRY IN ARGENTINE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1180, 1 December 1924, Page 6

DAIRY INDUSTRY IN ARGENTINE.

“NO GREAT ADVANCE FOR YEARS TO COME.”Mr C. E. Robertson, who lias just returned from a visit to South America, informed a Dominion reporter that at the time of his visit.the Argentine was steadily recovering from the slump, or, as it was termed there, the “crisis,” and as prices for beef had advanced considerably, and new markets were opening up on the European Continent, the country was looking forward to a period of prosperity. During the crisis, dairying had been turned to as a more profitable system of farming than cattle raisin" and fattening, but owing to the improved position of the beef market and she really unsatisfactory labour for this technical class of farming, Mr Robertson suid lie was of the opinion that no great advance would be inado in dairying for some years to come. Up.to the present, the cooperative factory had not. been a success, but there were some huge proprietary, concerns which engaged in the producing as well as in the manufacturing business. One of these concerns milked on one property 7000 head of Friesian cattle, and another (founded by Mr Reynolds, formerly of Cambridge, New Zealand), milked oil its properties nearly 14,000 dairy Shorthorns. Machine milking was not practised, and die cows were only, milked onee a day. the calves running with the cows.