The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EDMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913 ARGENTINA'S BIG FARMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EDMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1913 ARGENTINA'S BIG FARMS.

Tho old-fashioned ranch, or estancia. famous in tale and story-book, is, wt are now told, fast disappearing fron Agentina to make room for the large skilfully managed farm. The riel pastures of the modern cattle farraei cover’ a magnitude of acres that woulc -•< bewilder readers accustomed to measurements gauged by European standards. To the uninitiated it woulc bo difficult to realise that an ostanci. such as that of San Jacinto extend: over an area of no less than 244 squar. miles, of which some 65 square milei are covered by carefully enclosed pas tures of rich lucerne grass, when 100,01)0 cattle, bred from pedigree stock, a similar number of highly-brec Lincoln sheep, and some 10,000 horse; represent the live stock; while wha used to be a modest farmhouse is now a mansion standing in its own pari and gardens. The whole of the pro vinco of Buenos Ayres, the greate j portion of that of Cordoba and Sant. I Fc, as well as the adjoining province: j and territories, unite in forming ai i immense natural plain admirably I adapted to cattle rearing. Some dis tricts of Argentina are, of course more favourable to cattle rearing thai others, hut the most noted of these districts is tho Pampa, where the cli mate is mild enough to admit of’ breeding all -the year round. On the other hand, the cold climate of Patagonia is reputed to be one of the finest sheep-rearing districts of the world. .Much has been done in Ar-

gentina to raise the standard of its lire stocks, and brooders'of stud ani Dials in the United Kingdom have don: a lucrative trade with Argentina fo; some considerable time past. The Argentine stock-breeder does not con sudor expense in purchasing good cattle for cross-breeding purposes. Uur iug ten years ending with 1910, 9,(58! head of pedigree stock wore imported The average value was £l3l each, and the total £1,268,(510.