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SOUTH AMERICAN FIELD — ♦ American Thoroughbred Excellence to Be Shown Argentina. ■ — a Picture Campaign by the Department of Agriculture to Help the Movement. j ; The IJbjBad stales has undertaken ■ e— i palga f luanuH trial expansion in South America, especially in the Argentine, which ought la mean niiicli t » tne thoroughbred industry, and 1 i ■ stock interest*- in gtuwl, in this country. For many years tim breeslera "f heroes, rattle, sheep and swine in the region »f tin- i qualm hare patronized Knglish marketa exclusively, nut with I knowledge of the quality of blooded animals available hen tin-re is every reason for tin belief that the Patted State* will Mine :i goodly partiaa of this timfe in the future. That it is worth gulag after la evidenced hf the fact that the sportami a of the Argentine hare in the p.-ist bid higher thaa any of their competitors whea a particular stallion araa wanted. They showed this irhea they paM linnarl fit hamal last rest the equtvulent of 9203,000 for his great t harae Tracery, which, though brad in this country. • Jmil only need abroad, ami whose entire stud i career was confined to England, where his son 1 1 Monarch is the reigning favorite fer this years • Derby. They had previously given 57,500 for i" Tyllene. 51,200 for Diamond Jubilee. 80,000 for • CragsJBaur, and 00,000 for The Paather, a son of I Tracery. All of this money wont to England, besides many other tlioiis.-inda for aaam nil ; ah*. There is ■ good reason for the breeding and raring enthusiasm of the Argentine la feel kindly dis : in. seil to the Tinted States, as the dam of their greatest borne, Botofogo ■ regfrhir .Man a* War. .■md like him beaten uly once aader chrcumstsneea ■ similiar to those connected with the downfall of ant own turf idol was imported from this country v In that period immediately following the aaaaagc of the Bart-Agnew legislation. This araa tin Butte Korea, foaled in Bnglaad in l!in_. and sired ,1 by Uaehiirn. a son of St. Simon Ilia, by liar ealdiae; sh.- was bronghl over by 11. P. Bradley, .•mil raced as a two and three-year-old in thi ealara of T. P. Bayea, far whom she won a few x races. She became the property uf Major T. J. Caraan us a fonr-year-oM, and was one of tin-eoailgaiaent ■ sent to South America by American " brennera who are aeeking aurketa for their M ™ 1 stwk in eviy corner of the ulol" PICTURE CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTH AMERICA. An important feat are of the campaign which has , been undertaken in the Deaartmeni of Agricaltnre, with I». s. Bailors, in charge of a corps of experts, will be iiitisti ., ,i lectarea .•■ the rarloaa agii-cultural rollegea throaghoal the renabtic. Argea- tiniuns will have I fhanff to s,e Man o War anil | I ins sire. Pair Play, as arell as Braaaaatick and ■ I namber of his produce, am*ag them the anperh i, inilividual Whisk Broom [I. They will revel in the ,. physical perfections of these great rivals. Boar-l"ss and Omar Khayyam, ami they will also be i. ahaarn the counterfeit preaentmenta ef many of the ,, great horses and mares of the past, anch as Begret, Snnbrl.ir Kyaonby, Beldame. Priai Koch, Commando. Olamhals. Bermis. Iiisii Lad and Artful. There were 300 pictures in all of toe West American J types of the thoroughbred and the aame plan araa carried out arith other branches cf li • st «-k. The party, when it sailed from New Voik for the Argentine oa Jaanarj IT for Baeaaa Aires. carried with it a large and varied amount of data. Included in it were copies of the American Stud j It-ok. in which ti e genealogy of our thoroughbred I families are preserved; the Pereheron stud Book. the Hackney stud itcok. America a Saddle Borse Registry and registry records of pure bred rattle, sheep and awinr. Thej also hare copies of the annual reports „f the Br ling P.ureau of the Jockey flub, .-ml the halfbred Iluntei Register, esUblialicd j by Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth of Avon, N. V.. I in conynnctkau with the Oeaesee Valk. Breeders A-sociat ion. . The party will be gone tor several montba and J the saltan f the experiment win be awaited with interest by the American breeders and fanciers of live stock.
