NEW ZEALANDERS IN ARGENTINA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2928, 27 April 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS IN ARGENTINA.

A very high compliment is paid to New Zealande'rs by Mr W. H. Koebel, one oE the most recent writers on the Argentine, as to the way in which they have taught the Argentine ranchers to run their ranches. In scientific fa-rming the Sout'"' American lagged years and (periods of years' behind the New Zealander, and he had stocked his land anyhow. "Then upon the scene," says Mr Koebel, "came the New. Zealander, accustomed to watch jealously, every sovereign and every acre, and accustomed to wrestle by main force with the land that all might be- wrung from it that; it would yield. The arrival of this graduate* of a harder and more scientifir school brought to light faults of which'the Argentine had never been iware. There a r era lands in plenty that had carried sheep year after year in quantities that they should! never have been expected to support without the rendering of artificial aid. . . ••

The newcomers settled down to work, and when they had dealt with it tk) discovery was made, to the astonishment of the Argentines, that the land would still bear more sheep thai? before, and that, moreover, it would continue to do so beneath the v;es-j£iior o* 'nteMigent treatment. It ■was i'h-.v.i that the New ZeaJander began, tnic! as be begat: he has gone on. He fv'SV.l sheep with undecked tails, and caused tb&n to be- docked. He discovered s ramjsci-t cor.d'tion of foot-rot. and of othir dise&ies, and demonstrated the cures. In fact, he has beer tinkering here, trimming and mending l ,here. until the Argentinian looks about him ir; surprise at the result. The latter, as a consequence, has found it worth 'his while of late to bestow upon the sheep some portion of that interest which he had before lavished entirely on cattle. In the matter of sheep-farming there is no doubt flbont the debt of gratitude which is due from the Argentine to the New Zealander."