DAIRY INDUSTRIES——The large establishments devoting themselves to these industries——Butter; cheese——Exports of butter; the development of which the dairy industries are capable.
BREWERIES——Chief establishments——Production and consumption of beer during the years 1902-1907——Suppression of imports of foreign beer.
SPIRITS——Decreased production of spirits.
LOOMS, TANNERIES——Weaving and tanning are industries which at present exist in the Argentine only in a rudimentary condition, despite the conditions which are favourable to their development.
QUEBRACHO WOOD——The centre of production——Applications——Companies engaged in the industry——Their results——Value of the products and the large profits to be expected.
TIMBER TRADE——Varieties of timber and hard woods.
FISHERIES——First results of this industry.
The industry of the Argentine Republic is more or less independent upon its agriculture and stock-raising, which contribute the raw materials for the manufacture of various alimentary products. Among those industries which are thus dependent on the produce of the soil we must mention, as the more important, sugar-boiling, flour-milling, the chilled-meat industry, the making of butter, cheese, and oil, brewing, and distilling.
Besides these industries, the majority of which are flourishing and suffice for the needs of the country, we must mention others which are still in a rudimentary state, but which seem to have an assured future, on account of the abundance of raw material; namely, the weaving of woollen and cotton fabrics, and the preparation of leathers. We shall therefore have occasion to remark upon the conditions of their development.
_Sugar Factories._——The sugar industry has fairly remote antecedents in the Argentine. Dr Latzina traces it back to the Jesuits; the inventory of their goods, drawn up at the time of their expulsion in 1767, proving the existence of a field of cane and a sugar-mill.
Despite its respectable antiquity, the sugar industry only began to be of significance towards the middle of the nineteenth century, at which time it was established in Tucuman, whose soil appeared to be favourable to the cultivation of the cane. Since then it has developed gradually, but it is only during the last ten years that it has spread to any considerable extent.