Flannel shirts are best; woollen drawers should also be used
For working, clothes of such colour as will not show the dust are best.
The thickness of the clothes for summer wearing may be very much the same as would suit in England during hot summer weather; they should be waterproofed before being made up.
Indiarubber coats, although very useful in winter, are ruined in hot weather, and stick together and tear, so as to be useless.
Good English boots are not to be had, and are therefore very useful.
As to food he says:—
Be careful about eating and drinking, especially when newly landed, and avoid as much as possible unnecessary exposure to the sun.
Fruit should not be taken in quantities at first. Peaches are said to be the best and most wholesome.
I may add from my own experience that where it is intended to frequent the campo a pair of good riding boots are very necessary, and a rough pea jacket would be a very good companion in winter. In town cloth cloaks are much worn, and in the campo chiefly ponchos.
The boundless tracts of open country are in a great measure occupied by sheep and cattle, and do not require much of the labour of man; but sheep farming having been carried to a large extent, the price of wool has much depreciated, and sheep can be bought very cheap. In consequence, agriculture is now much more attended to and will require labour. Good wheat can be grown in most of the Argentine Provinces, and now forms a staple commodity, which may be increased to almost any extent where railways afford the means of easy transport, and so soon as there are sufficient labourers to cultivate the soil. Indeed, there is no reason why wheat, as well as Indian corn, should not be largely exported, and I believe this will be the case in a very few years. Wheat crops are liable to injury from drought, but the price obtained for the product is a very remunerative one, and it is not subject to losses by depreciation as frequently occurs with sheep and cattle.