OUR OVERSEA ENEMY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 2

OUR OVERSEA ENEMY.

RAPID ADVANCE BY ARGENTINA.' Commenting upon the Argentine stock re> turns, a correspondent of the "Economist" (London) says"The weight of wool which the River Plate is turning out dpus not phpiv much falling off from what it was a fow years back. Like Australian pastoralists, the Argentine estanciaTlipldqrs kayo gone in lately for keeping a bigger sheep, find it New Zealand pastoralists could see' the splendid character of the crossbred wool now being turned out frofii Argentina they would be surprised,, for the best stud sheep that money can 'buy are being still imported. Sp far as sheep-breeding and wool-growing aye concerned, there 16 no indication of pastoralists in America standing still, and when they lipyb learned to prepare their clip for market as Australian squatters do, their wools will rank still higher on the marlcots of the world!" River Plate wool is a topic of unfailing interest to members of the trade, thanks entirely to its improving characteristics. Bradford buyers look upon the wool product of the whole of South America' \yiui considerably more favour than wps tho case even five years ago, aud as time goes pn this feeling will grow. Patagonian wools arc increasing by leaps and bounds. A competent authority stated not many months ago that that part of South America could easily depasture 30 millions of sheep. Not long ago three Bradford wool sorters lapde4 at/Punla Arenas to class the present clip pn three big stations. But it is tho product really of the River Plate which absorbs, for the timo being, our attention. In view of those developments, careful and holiest packing of New Zealand wools must bo maintained and improved in every available way if, our position pn the mnrket is to be retained.