Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — Live Stock in the Argentine Republic. [ARTICLE]

Live Stock in the Argentine Republic.

It need hardly be said that the main source of wealth in the Argentine Confederation has been the rearing of stock, and at the present time the paiiipa contains 60,000,000 sheep and 20,000,000 of cattle. It may not, however, be generally known that the cattle are all descended from eight cows and a bull which were brought to the new Spanish colony in 1553, by two Portuguese brothers named Goes. It is only within the last few' years that any endeavor has been made to ameliorate the original breed by crossing them with short-born bulls which have been imported from Europe. This cross is improving the milking qualities of the cows, but it is only in the ndighborhood of Buenos Ayres that this amelioration is appreciated, for on many of the largo grazing farms of the pampa there ard* not more thana half dozen milch cows out of 2,000,000 head. The occupier of the farm or estancia, to give it the local name, looks only to the hides and to the meat which, when dried and salted, are sent to Cuba and Brazil, where it is con sumed by the blacks. A farm of this description is estimated to bring in 25 or 30 per cent on the capital invested, and a square league of land, equal to about 5,400 English acres, will keep 3,000 head of cattle, a third of which will be sold every year at an average price of £2 8 shillings per head. The Courier-Journal thinks that the tailor can point out all the promising young men of the dav, and perhaps he can name the bulk of them* Thousands of families have had occasion to try the never-failing qualities of Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup, and they all unite ip the praise of thia wpdderful prescription.

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