I. Agriculture[125]
Natural Conditions—The Constitution of Property—The three principal agricultural districts—The northern, central, and southern districts—The division of crops and their varieties.
The constitution of rural property—The division of property—The great estates, called “estancias,” and their size.
The drawbacks of large properties—The necessity of a better subdivision of the public lands—The division into lots of large tracts of land, in order to encourage colonisation—The system of exploiting property.
Agricultural Production—The progress realised in last seventeen years—Comparative yield of the chief products, wheat, flax, and maize—Lucerne; the importance of the crop and the excellent results obtained.
Increase of the area under seed—The total area cultivated in the agricultural years 1908-1909—The great agricultural belts.
The Province of Buenos Ayres, its agricultural development and its crops—The Province of Santa Fé—The Province of Córdoba—The Territory of the Central Pampa.
Agricultural machinery, its importation from abroad, and especially from the United States.
The Agricultural Yield—The yield of the soil in the different Provinces—Exceptional results in certain districts—Detailed calculation of the yield of a wheat farm—Two instances of great wealth realised by immigrants to the Argentine.
II. The Production of Wheat in the Argentine
compared with the Yield of other Exporting
Countries [154]