--------------+------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------- |Wheat.| Maize.|Flax.|Oats.|Totals.|Average. --------------+------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------- {| 782 | 1,757 | 275 | 13 | 2,829 |} Rosario {| 242 | 1,952 | 248 | 1 | 2,445 |} 2,716 {| 717 | 1,790 | 366 | -- | 2,875 |} | | | | | | {| 441 | 1,389 | 246 | 240 | 2,318 |} Buenos Aires {| 297 | 906 | 55 | 78 | 1,537 |} 2,051 {| 511 | 1,349 | 342 | 96 | 2,299 |} | | | | | | {| 927 | 2 | -- | 462 | 1,393 |} Bahia Blanca {| 241 | -- | -- | 222 | 463 |} 1,075 {| 921 | -- | -- | 442 | 1,364 |} | | | | | | {| 5 | 910 | 74 | -- | 989 |} S. Nicolas {| 1 | 430 | 60 | -- | 492 |} 651 {| 5 | 420 | 48 | -- | 474 |} | | | | | | {| 333 | 358 | 14 | 170 | 876 |} La Plata {| 160 | 51 | 16 | 49 | 278 |} 459 {| 152 | 45 | 6 | 16 | 222 |} | | | | | | {| 265 | 51 | 158 | -- | 476 |} Santa Fe {| 7 | 23 | 128 | -- | 159 |} 278 {| 114 | 7 | 77 | -- | 199 |} --------------+------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------- CHAPTER VII ROADS AND RAILWAYS Roads on the plain--The salt road--The "trade route"--Transport by ox-waggons--_Arrieros_ and _Troperos_--Railways and colonization--The trade in cereals--Home traffic and the reorganization of the system. The chapter devoted to primitive breeding and the transport of cattle contains a sketch of the network of routes over the Andes. One cannot expect to find in the scheme of routes over the Argentine plains the stern and obvious influence of natural conditions. The surface of these plains is, as a whole, broadly open to traffic. Still, the map of the roads bears much evidence of geographical exigencies.