Show CATTLE RAISING mm ON UPLANDS OF BRAZIL IN LAND WHERE PRIMITIVE MILKMAN AT PRESENT BRINGS BEINGS COW TO YOUR DOOR THE GRAZER HAS NO DIFFICULTY ABOUT FOOD THOUGH HE IrE HAS TO FEAR rEAR ANIMAL DISEASES AND TRANSPORTATION TATION IS LACKING RIO DE JANEIRO Nov XO 20 Until Until e recent ent years Brazil with its vast plains pl ble for grazing millions of head head of tattle rattle where the they mn may flourish the year found Mund with but little attention from their owners has been a largo large importer of r dairy products and particularly of b butter and c cheese eege This is still true of the tho northern ports of the republic and md in in those northern districts where either the climate is if not such as 18 to permit of stock raising raisinS or the attention of the inhabitants i. i tants is entire entirely taken up with other iu iua in a t ries i Especially ally does o s this seem strange in of the fact that from the earliest colonial times the tbt inhabitants of th the provinces from Rio Grande do Sul SuI northward to the the- uplands along the i southern Bouthern tributaries of the Amazon obtained ob oh tamed their subsistence very er largely from the more or less e s wild herds of native na- na ti tive ti e cattle which they looked after in m mn n n n fashion E Even n tod today y the meat supply of of tho cities of Rio de do Janeiro and Sao Paulo is had harl from the thi herds grazing i over r the tho plains of the thc thinly populated land ill all but unknown states state's ot of Goyaz land and Matto ratto Grosso whence th the cattle cattle- jare driven for more than 1000 miles mils sometimes to make connections with I railroad or thc thes' ma mabe be driven on only ony a afew aI afew I few few hundred bundre I to be he placed on river riverboats I boats and shipped bv by water n through h 1 thc the r riv river pr r Plata system and then up lip tho coast to Rio de do Janeiro i I i The state of Matto Gros Groso o is s supposed sup sup- up- up posed to have hn within l its Borders not less than cattle and Go Goyaz slightly t h Jess e. e r In n t those tate t p 1 and anil nIt particularly particularly parti- parti j in the cattle grazing is isI I carried extended scalo enk on upon a aIr very vory I by Y a 1 limited number of CI i I There arc He f several of these c in in the south south- orn rn part of Matte Matto Grosso with ranches i hundreds of miles mills in extent with herds of nf from to head I I To Bo Be Great Industry That cattle raising is destined to tobe tolie lie be one ODe of the tb chief industries of Brazil will vill be bo seen when ono that ono of If th the industries i at present of mo most t importance with the tho Po possible exception ex cx- eption of cotton otton growing rot can an have I like c so Q extended and general attention as 5 is possible in the th case caSA of the tho grazing industry With linn of corn om grain can not bo be grown rOl D in ill an any part of Brazil and n om can ho bo cultivated only by hy the use 1150 e of new seed Recd from temperate zone climates every C second or third year rear by hy reason of the rapid deterioration which I Ith I th the tho grain crain is subject to in this climate Tho The development of Brazils Brazil a two tl greatest crops rubber and antI coffee has hns been neon been checked by in- great creat crises which threaten to permanently an affect the su su- u. u of f these industries in Bra Brazil Tho The federal o as well as the state governments of tho the republic arc are agitating the diversification of crops nd agricultural industries and aud the tho most significant i feature of this movement mo Is IR the aid lid extended b by the government co in inthe inthe the importation of blooded stock stok for breeding purposes in order to encourage the combination of pastoral with a agri agricultural agricultural ri cultural indu industries tries in tho the several states In practically all an suitable sections ct ous of that part of Brazil south fouth of the swampy swamp forest lands immediately bordering the tho Amazon more or Ic less s cattle raising i is successfully undertaken 1 Brings Cow Along than han ten years ago aco it was all nIl but to buy a 1 glass b s of fresh h milk mUk in an any shop in tho the cit city of Rio do Jan eiro ciro The source of tie the milk used by hv tho the of the city was from el at the doors of f those who wished to bu hay buy Tho The custom is still fol iol to owed some extent even in such cities cit cit- cit cit- ies as ns Santos Butter r was not made hero here at nIl all being heinS imported import d for the n use e of tho the inhabitants inhabitant even cn in the far in in in- tenor T Though the use of dair dairy pro ducts has hn increased in the tho past do-cade do there luis hus been a decrease m In the amount of butter imported amounting to nearly nearl- in the two years vears 1905 and nd 1007 lOO In tho states stats of Minns San Paulo and Ilio Hio de 1 Janeiro a nei ro well esta established Jerl dairies ha have hae e been successfully operating for sonic some years and the product of these is constant con con- stant increasing lack ack of Transportation At present the Jr greatest ate ot obstacle to 1 tho the more general and more moro extended rl de- de 1 c of f the thc stock tock growing iodus- iodus I try in ui Brazil is the tho lack of mean of transportation Tho The vast ast plains of the I I j stales of or Go a Goyaz Goya and Matto atto Gros Grosso Groso o are arc i i destin destined sonie some time timo to feed tho the herds which v will supply meat to lar large c numbers I of the worlds world's population but hut as sir yet vet t these rc regions ion aro are entirely inaccessible I to the markets of the tho worl world Tho northwest northwest north north- west railroad now in in construction WI will be tho 1 first t to tap this region and it I remains to bo seen een whether or not the tho I rates Tates established will vill make mako foO possible the tho I untrammeled use usa of it its system in iii the proper development dC of tho the pastoral in 10 which must always be bo th the the- greatest industry in that part of Bra Bray oil zil By BJ bringing tho the grazing lands of I western Brazil within reach of the mar in in eastern Brazil the coast cities I could rely reh for their r meat supply on that j i I part lart of Brazil and thus make mah possible ble tho the furth further r development dc of dairying in tho the eastern and more densely populated states of the republic Stock ra raising and dairying in Brazil in in common wit with 11 those industries s in most other r parts of the tropical Ironical world have bac I their own ol pc peculiar uliar different f from rom tho o in in temperate climates foI The Tho Brazilian stockman need Mcd not worry worn about hont the tho food supply for his herds berds since Bince they con can graze the year around and in in most parts of Brazil there is lit littIe littie lit lit- tIe tle difficulty difficult about t water In Baum Bahin however and in in the coast states north of the mouth of oC the Amazon there are aro frequent droughts of a n prolonged erl na nn ture which are the cause of hla heavy loss loos looses es Cs to the farmers and cattle raisers raiNs The greatest t obstacle to tn h ho combated is if however bon the susceptibility of cattle to disease of many mano k kinds The significance of the difficulties in b in this thi respect may mav m bo he realized from Crom tho the fact that iu lu the tb-c state of Minas nn in n n 1903 1005 nc accord accord ord ing ins to the tho official figures lo losses s by hy di disease dis C ease case FC amounted to t jt head bead benr as ns compared corn com pared wih with slaughtered for food urpo purposes Goat Goa and ad Sheep Ratting Raising Cattle Catle raising and dai dairying ing are arc af at- r. r forded no greater opportunity for futuro futuro fu fu- turo development dc in in Brazil than may reasonably be expected of other othor branches branch Ja es Cs of the pa pastoral tora industries Goat rise rais mis- ing has ha for many years been beon carried on profitably in the northern states of Brazil Bra zil zi Sheep raising has proven profitable The plains of Goyaz and Matte Matto Grosso Groso offer splendid advantages ad for the development de of tb the wool growing rowing indus industry industry try and with tho the protection afforded afforde b by the Brazilian tariff to woolen goods good u manufacture there thero should be in great i. i in the development dc of this industry in in- Tho The meat packing in industry is gradually grad crad ual being loine placed upon a modern and anti practical basis in tho the states of Rio Grando do o Sul SuI and Sao 80 Paulo and this i is g giving ins rise Tse to the tho growing ero of more hogs bogs than has previously previous been the case |