The world's meat futureAn account of the live stock position and meat prospects of all leading stock countries of the world, with full lists of freezing works . ern limit we overlook the Parana, not, as in its higherreaches, a deep, swift river, but a degenerate Parana—a streamwhose width may be three or thirty miles, according to thecaprices of its sudden floods, beyond the scope of modernengineering to bridge, and puzzling, with its shallow channelsand shifting islands, the most experienced of riv(M- pilots. Tothe south lies the Plate estuary, leading to the ocean. ARGENTINA 81 The Mesopotam
The world's meat futureAn account of the live stock position and meat prospects of all leading stock countries of the world, with full lists of freezing works . ern limit we overlook the Parana, not, as in its higherreaches, a deep, swift river, but a degenerate Parana—a streamwhose width may be three or thirty miles, according to thecaprices of its sudden floods, beyond the scope of modernengineering to bridge, and puzzling, with its shallow channelsand shifting islands, the most experienced of riv(M- pilots. Tothe south lies the Plate estuary, leading to the ocean. ARGENTINA 81 The Mesopotamia, which is bounded by these rivers, is reallya peninsula, whose neck in the corner is the territory of]\Iisiones, the ancient stronghold of the Jesuit power in theSouthern Americas. On this side the red sandstone hills fring-ing on Corrientes have as yet resisted the encroachment of thetropic forest, which connnences a few miles further north. Hereis the road by which the cattle from the uplands of Brazil findtheir way to the south—a highway whose importance will beincreasingly felt as trade relations between the two countries aredrawn 2. Champiux Shorthorn Cow, Ascott Valentine, -i years old.—Ownedby Sr. Pedro T. Pages, La Josephina. Won the A. de Bary and , and Family Group Prize (with two calves). There is little doubt that at a former period the ocean ex-tended far further into the interior, when the continental watersdischarged at what is now the junction of the Alto Parana, theParaguay, and the Bermejo. From this spot southwards theland rises. Corrientes is gently undulating, and traversed bynumerous streams that wander confusedly through marshybottoms. Entre Rios, set upon the bar of that ancient water-shed, rises in ridges of an argillaceous formation, running nearlydue north and south. Both provinces are covered with a rich 82 THE WORLDS MEAT FUTURE cap of modern alluvium, save for a strip along the banks of theUruguay, where the red foothil
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