WHEAT FARMING IN ARGENTINA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12868, 2 January 1906, Page 7

WHEAT FARMING IN ARGENTINA.

A letter from an tx-Victorian station

manager "who Trent- to the Argentine last year with the idea of getting a billet as -station overseer or manager says. "There are a few good'managements, but, as in Australia-, they are rushed by hundreds of applicants as soon as one becomes vacant." He was offered an. overseer's billet six months forward, the overseer who was about, to leave having been in the billet seven years, and receiving £l2O a year, whih does not mean so much as in Austra- ' lia, as, whilst living is about the same as .far as' food is concrned, clothing, etc., is much dearer. Eventually he decided with some other friends to rent 1000 acres of land at 2s per acre for farming- purposes, 'half the : rent being payable in advance. He says: "We were rather late in starting, so were unable to get all the Jiorses' we required, so we put on two contract ploughs and. have two of our own goino-. We have about 300 acres ploughed.' and hope -to get another 100 acres done for -wheat, and so much as we can do under \ -maize. We start.harrowing in* a fewdavs, *-, and it is this work that takes it out "of rthe horses, or otherwise we should hope to plough more than another iOO acres for wheat. The horses are very light, and it takes four to pull-a-single-furrow plough \ Jr yi n S the driver, and each plough has three moves'; of'horses, thus taking' twelve hoKses in aIL IChey are worked on the grass alone,, sjnd 4 atr present, counting the 9? n s-. llc tPK s horess, we 'have over sixtvhead , Tuniypg on 'the place. V- Each plough turns - «yer about aeries per day, ss voa see with four ploughs at 19 acres per dav we soon, got r over the ground. The countrv is ah open .plains, oiily broken by the uiantatioD's at - tSe 1 estanoia. Beauta£u'l. water is obtainable at 10ft from the surface We have- rested out land from an English es*a|icisio.. for three- years. At the ena. o f .. «iat- time it will be put down in alfalfa."