* * * * * Transcriber’s Note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the TRANSCRIBER’S AMENDMENTS near the end of the text. To preserve the alignment of tables and headers, this etext presumes a mono-spaced font on the user’s device, such as Courier New. Words in italics are indicated like _this_. * * * * * The Modern World Series 1. THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN GERMANY. By W. Harbutt Dawson. 2. MODERN RUSSIA. By Gregor Alexinsky. 3. JAVA, SUMATRA, AND THE OTHER ISLANDS OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. By A. Cabaton. 4. THE ARGENTINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Albert B. Martinez and Maurice Lewandowski. 5. THE JAPANESE EMPIRE AND ITS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. By Joseph D’Autremer. THE ARGENTINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY ALBERT B. MARTINEZ, UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE AND MAURICE LEWANDOWSKI, DOCTOR IN LAW With a PREFACE by M. ÉMILE LEVASSEUR, Membre de l’Institut, and an INTRODUCTION by the late CH. PELLEGRINI, Ex-President of the Argentine Republic. Translated by BERNARD MIALL from the French of the Third Edition, revised and brought up to date. WITH A MAP T. FISHER UNWIN LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE 1915 CONTENTS CHAP PAGE AUTHOR’S NOTE xiii AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION xv PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xxv INTRODUCTION xli GENERAL PLAN AND METHOD OF THIS BOOK 55 THE ARGENTINE NATIONALITY 59 PART I. THE ARGENTINE FROM THE ECONOMIC STANDPOINT. I. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE ARGENTINE 71 CLIMATE——SOIL——Geographical situation of the Argentine; its boundaries, its area. Climate of various districts. The prevailing winds. Nature of the soil; its fertility; adaptation to the culture of cereals and the raising of live-stock——Transformation of virgin into fertile land——The Pampa——The cultivable area——Conditions favourable to production——The plague of locusts.