| 642,065 |£571,563,430|£130,179,700|£55,477,500 |£16,321,270 |£773,541,930 +============+============+============+============+============+============ [Illustration: MAP OF ARGENTINA AND ADJOINING STATES. [Transcriber’s Note: Our apologies for the poor quality.]] INDEX Agriculture, peculiarity of production, 109 (125-153); principal regions, 125; chief crops, 126; size of holdings, 127-9; land agencies, 130-1; usual land tenure, 132; dependent on railways, 132; produce (tables), 135, 136, 137 (table); increase of sown lands, 139; statistics of area (table), 140-1; profits of (tables), 147-151; wheat, 154-161; agricultural exports (table), 227: total value of agricultural and pastoral holdings, 372 =Agricultural census=, _see_ Census =Agricultural industries=, _see_ Industries Agricultural machinery, _see_ Machinery America, _see_ United States Andes, climate of, 73 Area, of Argentine, 72; cultivable, 76 Argentine nationality, the, 59-68 =Argentine Republic=, the position of, 71; boundaries, 71; area, 72; climate, 72-4; soil, 74-6; scourge of locusts, 77; rivers, 77; almost a desert nation, 115; production of wheat in, 154-161; foreign trade, 211-234 Austria, trade with, 226 Bahia Blanca, port of, 89-90 =Balance-Sheet, the, of the Argentine=, (349-372); securities in circulation (table), 352; revenue of same (table), 355-356; interest paid on foreign capital, 357; table of English capital, 358; of French, 361; German, 363; favourable balance, 367; total value of farms and estates, 372 =Banks=, (261-278); balance-sheets of, 264-268; nature of business, 266-70; clearing-house, 270; balance-sheet of the bank of the Province of Buenos Ayres, 271; _see_ Mortgage Banks Bank of the Nation, the, 270; balance-sheets, 272 Belgium, trade with the Argentine, 219-225 Boundaries of the Republic, 71 =Bourse=, the (278-286); extent of operations, 280-1; organisation of, 276; regulations, 283; table of operations, 283-4; value of securities quoted, 284 Brazil, trade with the Argentine, 219, 225 Breweries, 242 (table), 243 Budget, the (295-309); amounts of, 296; cause of excessive budgets, 299-304; composition of, 305 =Buenos Ayres=, 83; harbours of, 81; market of, with statistics (table), 84-5; port, inward and outward trade of, 85 (table); importance as a port, 86. Buenos Ayres, province of, 142 Bullion, imports and exports of (table), 218 Butter, exports of (table), 241-2 Canada, wheat production, 160-1; immigration policy, 161 =Capital=, foreign, invested in the Argentine, 351; English, 358; French, 301; German, 303 Cattle, numbers of (table), 211