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Show UTAH"DRY FARM ITKOPIEO Argentine Agent Studying Beehive State as Model in Agriculture, The fame of "Utah's dry farms has reached South America. Argentina Is ahxioua to follow In the footsteps of the ; Beehive state and develop her vast agricultural agri-cultural region, Rieardo Vldela, an offi- cial of the Buenos Aires railroad, who is I visiting the United States, studying the ; most modern agricultural methods and modern systems of railroad, said yesterday. yester-day. Mr. Videla said the irrigation systems sys-tems In vogue In Utah are being commented com-mented on with interest by the populace of his country, and John A. Widtsoe's publications on irrigation are read with Interest there. Mr. Videla came to Salt Lake from California, where, he says, he was greatly interested in fruit horti- culture. He will visit the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college at Logan today. He hopes to meet Dr. Widtsoe, as he reads his works with great interest. "A rgentina is rapidly coming to the front," Mr. Videla said. "It Is in reality a miniature United States, for our climate cli-mate and conditions are similar to yours. For instance, the southern part of Argentina Ar-gentina is similar to the. climate at St. Johns, the middle section similar to Utah and California, and the northern section warm like Florida. Our seasons are reversed, which is the only difference. We have vast regions of land which could produce millions of bushels of grain if put into dry farms, and that is what the agriculture agri-culture department intends to do. "We already have 150,000,000 bushels of wheat that can be exported. Although' our territory is only one-third as large as the United States, and with only 9,-000,000 9,-000,000 inhabitants, if the prewar immigration immi-gration of 300.000 yearly comes again to Argentina when conditions are normal the future of our country will be remarkable. re-markable. We are anxious that Americans Amer-icans and American capital help us develop de-velop our resources. The whole population popula-tion is white, with no colored races. Although Al-though we speak Spanish, French and English are being universally taught in our schools. "The movie craze of the United States has taken Buenos Aires by storm. On every block there is a movie house, where Mary Pick ford and Charlie Chaplin are favorites. We are looking to the United States not only for trade, but also as a sort of guiding star after which to pattern. pat-tern. "Already Buenos Aires is becoming a world's metropolis. We have 1,500,000 people in our leading city, which is located lo-cated about like St. Louis is located In the United States." |