. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . A Herd of Blooded Cattle on the The Meat of the Country. Buenos Aires 153 these names by the attendants who spoke ^Spanish orItaHan. We next ins|X?ctcd the stables. Sk)me fine horseswere on view. Arabian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire,Suffolk-Punch, Boulonnais, Anglo-Norman, and Hack-ney stock were represented. But I hardly found thedisplay of horses as interesting as that of the were only two hundred and eighty-eight horsesand one ass on exhibition; before the nine hundred bullsand cow


. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . A Herd of Blooded Cattle on the The Meat of the Country. Buenos Aires 153 these names by the attendants who spoke ^Spanish orItaHan. We next ins|X?ctcd the stables. Sk)me fine horseswere on view. Arabian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire,Suffolk-Punch, Boulonnais, Anglo-Norman, and Hack-ney stock were represented. But I hardly found thedisplay of horses as interesting as that of the were only two hundred and eighty-eight horsesand one ass on exhibition; before the nine hundred bullsand cows, the equine cohorts seemed small. Further-more, the box-stalls surrounded by gratings, throughwhich it was necessary to peer, and the rather dim lightof the pavilions did not allow the horses to be seento the same advantage as the cattle, which were dis-played in open stalls under a better light. The sheep were interesting. The animals exhibitedbelonged mainly to the various well-known Englishbreeds, and they all seemed to be in remarkably goodcondition. To allow them to carry the fleeces theybore in a subtropical climat


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