AGRICULTURE IN ARGENTINA

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 62

AGRICULTURE IN ARGENTINA

Although the growing development of the pastoral and agricultural industries has secured for the Republic in these departments a leading place amongst the nations of the world, leagues upon leagues of fertile land still remain uncultivated and uninhabited. In the recently issued “Argentine Year Book," for 1903, we read that numerous forests exist, for the most part unexploited, containing excellent timber, both for building purposes and for cabinet work. In order to encourage the colonisation and settlement of the large uninhabited tracts to be found in the Republic, the Qovernment offers advantages to foreigners which enable them easily to become landowners. Immigrants upon their arrival at Buenos Aires are lodged and fed free of charge for a week, when they proceed to the destination they have chosen. The country is in many respects very similar to Australia, the most important industries being pastoral and agricultural, the former, as in the case of Australia, being the mainstay of the Republic. To what enormous dimensions this

industry has grown will be seen, from the following statement from the Year-book already quoted: -—“ln the many estancias scattered over the country are to be found about 12$ millions of sheep, 30 millions of cattle, 5 million horses, 3 million goats), and 1 million pigs.”—"Buenos Aires Herald,” 11th March. 1904.