Here again we find Argentina leading. Moreover, she exported nearly the whole of her production, whilst North America, Russia, and India exported less than half a million tons between them.
It is more than probable that by 1920 Argentina will be able to export, as the result of agricultural work, more than £100,000,000 worth of produce per annum. It is interesting to note that, as the present figures reveal, allowing for a population of 6,500,000 and an agricultural produce export of £48,335,432, each individual in Argentina has sent abroad, after producing enough from the land to keep himself, goods to the value of nearly £8.
The diagram facing this page shows what has been accomplished by Argentina in the last ten years.
In actual money value the exportation of wheat, linseed, oats, maize, other grain, flour, bran, and middlings is, in round figures, as follows:—
| 1900 | £15,485,000 |
| 1901 | 14,319,000 |
| 1902 | 13,634,000 |
| 1903 | 21,050,000 |
| 1904 | 30,065,000 |
| 1905 | 34,047,000 |
| 1906 | 31,530,000 |
| 1907 | 32,818,000 |
| 1908 | 48,335,000 |
| 1909 | 46,100,000 |
CATTLE.
The value derived from the cattle industry and its allied produce is of great importance to the Argentine Republic. The exports from this industry may be divided into four heads, namely:—
LIVE ANIMALS;