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 . Pampa Central. Entre Rios and a part of the south of Torrientes holds themain breeding place for Herefords. The outskirts of the country are chiefly devoted to Criolla andgrade Criollas, these being cattle bred from the original Spanishimportation of hundreds of years back, and afterwards allowed tobecome wild. Down south there are very few cattle, the countrybeing chiefl> devoted to sheep. ARGENTIXA 63 The Shorthorns are rim on the
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 . Pampa Central. Entre Rios and a part of the south of Torrientes holds themain breeding place for Herefords. The outskirts of the country are chiefly devoted to Criolla andgrade Criollas, these being cattle bred from the original Spanishimportation of hundreds of years back, and afterwards allowed tobecome wild. Down south there are very few cattle, the countrybeing chiefl> devoted to sheep. ARGENTIXA 63 The Shorthorns are rim on the alfalfa and on all the bestof the country, as owing to their early maturity they givethe best results on the high-priced land, and they are very nicecattle indeed. The first impression one receives after beingstruck by the quality of the cattle, is the number run on thearea and the quiet nature of the stock. Pasture.—The indigenous grasses of the Pampa region knownas coarse grass, have gradually been replaced in a radius of about150 miles round Buenos Aires, by the so-called soft grass, theseed of which was brought over by the Spanish invaders amongst. A Wealthy Argentines KstaxcjaMr. Hector Cobo s homestead at La Armonia, Southern part of BuenosAires Province. the forage for their horses. This grass, although actually oflittle agricultural value, was nevertheless superior to thePampean grasses. Before the spread of alfalfa (the Queenof the Pampa), land Avas classified as of coarse grass aud softgrass. Estancias.—The year 1878 marked the beginning of a new eraof extraordinary development in the Argentine estancias. Inthat year, the Indians were finally subdued, and the settlementof an enormous tract of fertile territory became possible. Highrents and heavy taxation induced many breeders to migrate from 64 THE WORLDS MEAT FUTURE the inside camps to the cheaper and less crowded hinds thusopened up. In order to defray the cost of the campaign againstthe Indians, four thousand
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