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Show oo Great Opportunity for the Cattlemen of the West Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 27. Paraguay Para-guay 16 a country which may come to the front to help hold down the price of beef, according to Mason Peters. Pe-ters. Bon of tho ex-congressman, who Is here after returning hut recently from South America, Peters says that land Is the only big-ranch placo now left In the world. It Is just Ilko Texas was before the settlors began to raise agricultural products, he said. "The country Is the moBt primitive prim-itive I hove seen The country has liod. so. many ryvarHthat, aU-the -men practically havo heen killed off" and tho women do what Httlo farming is practiced. "A plan Is forming to take cattlemen cattle-men from this country down and raise cattle on tho same plan that they raised them in this country years ago. Thero aro four big packing plants In Buenos Ayres, but you can't get cheap ranch land in Argentina. Thero they raise alfalfa and get ?100 an aore Tor Uio l-nd. That's civilization. But It is not so In Paraguay." |