Show WHEAT WHAT IN ARGENTINA how flow immense crops are arc raised at small expense by thi the courtesy 0 of william II if marton stoll esq of 0 new york who needs no introduction to 0 o our readers we ore are enabled to print below portions of a letter he be has just received from buenos ayres on the wheat resources ot of ar tho the letter also alga gives ing information of its IW writer don jorge jorga 0 wiggin formerly ot of this section a anil nd fin an attendant of the high aleh school in E exeter x C in which town he found his bride macat groia ing in this country Is on oil the increase to an almost incredible ble dimo amount unit livery every yeas tear new men melt como caine from italy switzerland germany and spain and engage in it after having wo worked aked a bearor year or so eo as laborers to learn the customs and mann mannera erit of tho the country and soil sell and think tor for A moment of the immense advar advantages these people havo have over our amerlean american farmer they 1111 0 absolutely no help except RE at the harvest little but instead grandmothers I 1 mothers and children are arc to be seen working in the fields doing all 1 from plowing to harvest time cline now for the total amount of 0 our last crop 1 c e harvested at a lia of was WAB metric tons of 1001 1000 kilo grammes 2 2200 pound more or lifts ae amount left 0 over ver fr irom 0 previous crop practically nil amount n consumed here bere equi lutted at dOO tons tolls including about tons exported as aa lour flour this last item Is ij also rapidly on the increase wheat exported from january januar Y to june athil last 10 tona tolls As to possible export between juno june and january 1 I it Is calculated that there still remains a surplus in the country of 0 from to tons but perhaps is CO 60 per cent is 1 ot of inferior lluy and not lot VP up to export requirements tho the most rel reliable lable cati estimate mate of ah hie e next crop Is perhaps A little under tinder tile lh nark anark ft tons it is generally Kine rally estimated that there Is 20 per cent oner oer last year but as it years yeara crop was unusually favorable in all the provinces c except x capt santa fe perhaps this percentage may be all a 11 we tile too larse large still up to 40 the present the crops aro are almost universally ver sally in fine condition the drouth in ilie the norU northern hern provinces has been broken by copious rains and up to the present the locusts have done little or no damage phelime the time of sowing Is dalr ing in may june and july ond ind we are liable to treats fronts here bere till the end of 0 september down south even later about myself I 1 am fin an engineer ond surveyor holding it a provincial santa re fe diploma in the latter branch which Is here rather the higher as it requires a 1 a I stilt stiff examination to obtain the tank lank I 1 fo all over the country wherever ahe rever I 1 find work to do 30 my unfortunate luck usually sending me to the extreme north in the summer where the heat beat ranges rans CT from in the shade abode upward and to the tar far south in the winter in my profession we lead rather a monotonous life as our work Is always more mora or less the same yet owe once in a while a taste of indians livorse thieves or perhaps a jaguar serves un unpleasantly all that hat piquant sauce called var variety lety exeter N 11 II news letter |