STOCK BREEDING IN THE ARGENTINE PAMPA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2694, 25 November 1882, Page 4

STOCK BREEDING IN THE ARGENTINE PAMPA.

Tho eight cows and the bull which the two Portuguese brothers Goes brought in 1533 from St. Catherine, on the coast of Brazil, to Paraguay, have developed into twenty million head of horned cattle, and it is estimated that nearly twenty times that number could find sustenance in the basin of the River Plate. Sheep farming is also so prosperous a business that there arc now upwards of sixty million sheep in the district, though it is only within the last thirty years that they have been thought worth notice. A flock of a thousand sheep does not require more than five hundred acres of land, and the profits are very great, as much as 100 par cent, on the capital invested being realised in soma cases. Thf» origin of the horse in the basin of the River Plate is traced ts the presence of Mendoza, who left hio horses behind him., and they are now so numerous that the colonists kill them for their skins and fat. The influx of colonists from Europe ha 3, it need hardly be said, changed the whole face of the country, the area of land under cultivation increasing every year, the introduction of the vine and tobacco plant being the latest novelties. The sugar-cane has for some time been grown on a large scale, the annual production averaging from eight to ten thousand tons.