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SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE.

People frequently quote the vast pastoral resource* of the Argentino Republic, »s likely to'play an important part in determining the future of our export trade in wool and frozen meat. The following cxtr.-ct from a letter written by an experienced New South Wales pnstoralist to a friend at home, throws much light upon the question. The concluding: remarks apply with even ereater force to our own agriculturists, who have every reiison to ba satisfied with their soil a.id climate. It remains with them to retain the proud position of being , able to place frozen meat upon the London markets of equal quality ; and scarcely less value to that fed upon' British pastures:—Buenos Ayrea 14th December, 1891.—" I wrote to you just before starting up country. 1 have beeD away about three weeks and seen a lot of country and stock, and have I consider, had a very good opportunity of formici? an opinion of the country as a sheep and cattle country. To bejrio with. I have seen thousands of sheep and cattle, and in spite of one of the best springs ever known (following , a bad winter), I hnvo not seen a fat beast, and only one fat sheep. The conclusion I have come to, is that it is not to bo compared to Australia for stock or wool, and that right or wrong , I don't want any of it. All the sheep aro scabby, and there is no wool they have to be dipped with compositions which I should feel very uncertain about. At any rate, the sheep fanners here think they do well if their sheep keep their wool on, and they don't all do that. Sheep are subject to all the diseases we know about and others, and are not the same animals at all. Land at 3s 6d per acre may be very dear even at that price. If you hear of anyone thinking of coming here, it would be a kindness to give him a hint that all that glitters is- not gold. There is a sale of cattle reported for killing, I suppose fat, 20,000 head at 20 dollars per head—a sovereign is worth IS 50 dollars. If the country is not good for stock, it is good land. Everything you put in the ground grows —trees, maize, fruit trees, etc., but you may grow frnit trees and not get fruit, that is on account of the unseasonably, cold weather they have. Last year there was frost during every month of the year. The extremes of heat and cold are greater than with us, and don't suit men or animals. Water is to be got at a few feet almost anywhere, but, of course, has to be lifted. I think dams and tanks cheaper and better in the long run, and 1 am sure stock do better at them. Pastoralists in Australia need not, I think, be afraid of over production of wool, the produce of flocks in Argentine. What we want in Australia are wise and reasonable land laws, which will encourage men to improve their country, and thus cause it to yield more wool than it does now, and at the same time provide employment for the working man." _____________

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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3129, 4 August 1892, Page 3

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SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3129, 4 August 1892, Page 3

SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3129, 4 August 1892, Page 3

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