Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 37 | Uruguay is Big Cattle Ranch

c t URUGUAY IS BIG I CATTLE RANCH Country as Large as State of Nebraska With Big Crop CropS Output S j I Uruguay has been described as ns a abiff R big biff sheep cheep and cattle ranch It I is as ns big biff as the state tate of oC Nebraska It I Is III Ismore isS S more than a great ranch however for it has bias a considerable crop acre acre- Age The rho country covers cr CO the agricultural region between the tile Atlantic ocean the tho theS S River Plato Brazil and the time Argentine 5 republic fh There rc are acres o which about are given to crops and acres are forest land lunt S The climate is temperate the mean summer temperature being about 73 degrees and the tho mean winter 50 CO de deI degrees do- do I grees grecs rec so that the tho live Ivo stock industry is not subjected to marked extremes At the tho present time there thero are be between boS bo- bo S tween and domestic do do- animals of which are cattle catle and an sheep The Tho pas has tulaga would sustain a much larger number ot of sheep and cattle catte This The government go has given ghen special attention to the live iivo 1 0 stock Industry S The bureau of oC animal Industry holds 5 the tIme leading position amon among similar Institutions throughout tiis world Its Is organization was wae perfected by the lato late Dr D. D J K Salmon who was for many years ears prominently Identified with the same ame kind of ot work In the agricultural department in the the United States Among tho the cereals more ore than 00 acres fire are under uller cultivation cuJI andS and'S and S 'S shoUt hout acres aro given to corn The acreage of oC oats Is in the tho neighborhood neighbor hood of oC acres Linseed occupies about aboul acres and flax ax is a n lending lend lead lag ing export Un hay Is produced for export ex e- port as well wel as consumption Tobacco also abo is I an export crop Viticulture has an assured future There are 2500 vineyards and above acres are aro given ghen to raising grapes S. S Tho earl output of or wines is close to f f beets arc fere cultivated d wi with th some success und and according to the tho the latest J 3 to this figures acres Heres are aro given S production Climate and soil sol make it I possible to raise both the temperate and nd nd tropical semi fruits Peach Poach trees cover er acres pear threes 1000 and apple trees acresS acres acre S 'S Olives Ol es are aro grown successfully there being l OOOO olive olivo e 01 trees trees Oranges al also Rl al- so 80 flourish I S TIme The he mineral resources In include lude 1 both th r n tHo o base and the pr prOcious c us minerals rals Cpa I veins exist and graphite also Is ir The meat packing and moat meat extract extract plants are arc the most important industrial industrial indus Indus- trial enterprises The national poll policy C favors the tho establishment of factories by land band grants and exemption from if J I Rivers ers and railways s 's supplement each Bother In forming a n complete system of ot transportation At the tIme be beginning beginning- of ot 1915 JUS 1915 there were 1600 miles of ot railways tin In operation There Thero are miles of oC j n waters of which miles pare on tIme the Plato Pato and the tho Uruguay River Ne Negro Io provides a further of or interior communication On time the there aro ten or more ports which may be considered d ocean ports Vessels of or fourteen feet draft i can proceed several hundred miles mies up 1 thO the River t to