AGRICULTURAL banks, proposed establishment of, 188 AGRICULTURAL defence, department of, 61 AGRICULTURAL land, extent of uncultivated, 77 AGRICULTURAL produce, and the railways, 137 "AGRICULTURAL smalls," 243 AGRICULTURE, education for "colonists" in, 56-60; conditions of, 190; prospects of, 198; possibilities of development of, 257 ALFALFA, development and cultivation of,69; importance of, 69, 116; value of, 194-7; reputed influence on water level of, 233 ALPACA, the, 116 ALTA Gracia, excursions to, 143, 165; golf at, 172; races at, 172-5 ANDES, the, 89; the railway, and, 147, 215, _et seq._ ANTHRAX, the gaucho and, 230 ARBORICULTURE, school for, at Tucuman, 59 ARGENTINA, possibilities of, 4; railway development in, 43-51; land question in, 52-62; call for population, 53; value of exportations of, 60; and world's food supplies, 63, _et seq._; production of food supplies in, 61-71, 244; constitution of government, methods of taxation, etc., 72-88; characteristics of, 89, _et seq._; from the British immigrant's point of view, 43; wheat production of, 186, _et seq._; immigration laws and regulations, 203, 223, _et seq._; the Jews and, 237-41; indigenous fauna of, 244; and industries, 257, _et seq._; credit of, 263; as overflow of Latin Europe, 271; and foreign capital, 275; possibilities of, 278-9 "ARGENTINA from a British Point of View," by C. P. Ogilvie, 197 ARGENTINE Agricultural Society, 120; cattle-breeding and, 121; and railway tariffs, 137 ARGENTINE Club at Bahia Blanca, 177 ARGENTINE Railway Company, 153 ARGENTINE Transandine Railway absorbed by the Buenos Aires and Pacific, 145 ARGENTINES, the, wealth and pride of, 5, 6, 7, 20, 22-23; source of wealth of, 24; social life of, 29; extravagance of, 32; moods of, 32-3; characteristics of, 38-40, 270-2; ambition of, 58 AUSTRALIA and wheat supply, 186-7 AUSTRIA and frozen meat, 127 AVENIDA Alvear, "B.A.," 30 _Avon_, the, 19, 54 "B.A." _See_ Buenos Aires BAHIA, 11 BAHIA Blanca, 43; commercial school at, 79; grain elevators at, 70; Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway at, 145; natural harbour, at, 176; growth of, 176-7; land values at, 177; life in, 177; railways at, 178; shipments from, 178; Victoria wool market at, 180; and the pampas, 181 BAHIA Blanca and North-Western Railway, absorbed by the Buenos Aires and Pacific, 145 BANCO Hipotecario Nacional, and loans for building, etc., 264 BANKS, licences for, 82; and gold reserve, 263 BELGRANO, "B.A." British colony at, 27 BELLE Ville, dairy school at, 60 BETTING regulations, 28 BENITZ Colony, forestry school, in the, 61 BIRDS, curious, 92 BOVRIL, 15; and meat extract trade, 159; cattle-breeding station of, 268-9