=Industries= (235-249); dependent on agriculture and stock-raising, 235; sugar factories, 236-7; flour-milling, 237; refrigerating industry, 238; (table), 239; dairy industry, 240; (table), 241-2; breweries, 242; (table), 243; weaving, 244; tanning, 244; the quebracho industry, 244-248; timber, 248; fisheries, 248; mining, 251-5; electrical, 256; (table), 257; electric lighting, 257; (tables), 258-9 Italy, trade with the Argentine, 219, 226 Japan, trade with, 230-1 Labour, great opportunities of, 115 =Land=, vicious system of ownership, 118; prevents colonisation, 121; average size of holdings, 127-9; national possessions and enormous private holdings, 129; land law of 1907, 130; system of tenure, 132; agencies, 131; auctions, 131-3; areas in cultivation, 134; rise in value, 139; values of, and sales, 174-185 =Limited Companies= (286-292); constitution of, 286-8; the crisis of 1890, 289-291; table of capital invested in, 291 Linseed, profits of, 150 Locusts, 77 Lucerne, 137-8; use of in stock-raising, 162; affects value of soil, 174 Machinery, agricultural (table), 144-5; tables, 146, 148 Markets, Buenos Ayres (table), 84 Maté, 197-8; where gathered, 197; imports, 198 _Métayage_, 133, 138 =Mines= (250-5); gold, silver, copper, coal, antimony, sulphur, etc., 253-4; mining laws, 255 =Mortgage Banks=, 275-278 Mulberry, cultivation and use of, 196-7 National debt, the (312-329); tabulated amount of, 312; first loans, 314; further loans, 315-321; table of internal debt, 322; total debt, 323; interest on, 324 Nationality, the Argentine, 59-68 Pampa, the, 75, 144; production of wheat per acre, 157 Pampero, the, 73 Parana, Rio, the, 79; navigable value and dredging of, 80-1; ports on the, 82, 88-9 Plata, La, port of, 86 Plata, Rio de la, 79 =Plate, river=, _see_ =Plata= =Population=, density of (table), 113-4; 117 =Ports=, 82; statistics of (table), 83; on the Parana, 82; Buenos Ayres, trade of (table), 85; _see_ =Plata=, 86; Bahia Blanca, 89 Property, large private, 129 Provinces, population of, 113-4; produce of, 137 Quebracho wood, effect on value of land, 74-5; the quebracho industry, 244-248