. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . Wheat Sacked and Piled after Threshing on an Argentinian An Argentini i for Heavy Hauling. r/ [ t Life in 2;,9 rope as do the cattlemen on uur western plains. As,now and then, a party of theni eanie by me on a lope,my mind involuntarily carried me back to the plains ofwestern Nebraska and of Wyoming, and the mesas ofour southwestern states, where just such riders, on justsuch errands bent, used to be a few years ag^) a dailysight. The days of the cowboy on our plains arenumbered, but the
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . Wheat Sacked and Piled after Threshing on an Argentinian An Argentini i for Heavy Hauling. r/ [ t Life in 2;,9 rope as do the cattlemen on uur western plains. As,now and then, a party of theni eanie by me on a lope,my mind involuntarily carried me back to the plains ofwestern Nebraska and of Wyoming, and the mesas ofour southwestern states, where just such riders, on justsuch errands bent, used to be a few years ag^) a dailysight. The days of the cowboy on our plains arenumbered, but the guacho of Argentina still has afuture before him, as the day of the small farmer hasnot yet dawned in the land. The small farmer inArgentina is to-day a man with only about five thou-sand acres in his possession. One ranch of which Iheard is larger than the State of Rhode Island. The transportation of crops from the land to therailways is effected by means of peculiar wagons, thelike of which I have observed nowhere else. They ha\ebut two wheels, about eight feet in diameter, and aredrawn by seven or eight horses harnessed abreast, orby three or
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