38  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA

devoted  to  this  business.  The  grapes  grown
at  the  foot  of  the  eastern  slopes  of  the  Andes,
near  and  around  Mendoza,  yield  500,000,000
quarts  of  wine  yearly,  most  all  being  for  internal ­
  consumption.  Owing  to  the  reversal
of  seasons  here,  crops  are  harvested  when  ours
are  being  sown.
Recently  dairying  has  developed  to  a  remarkable ­
  extent,  over  1300  creameries  and
factories  being  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of
butter  and  cheese,  doing  a  gross  business  of
nearly  $9,000,000.  Much  butter  and  cheese
are  shipped  to  England,  Brazil  and  South
Africa.  For  the  first  time  in  its  history,  butter ­
  was  exported  to  the  United  States  last  year.
Flour  milling  was  established  in  the  Argentine ­
  in  the  16th  century.  Prior  to  this  Chilean
flour  supplied  the  demands  for  this  article.
To-day  in  addition  to  providing  sufficient  for
its  own  requirements,  Argentine  ships  much
of  its  flour  to  Brazil,  Chile  and  Europe  and
has  about  800  flour  mills  in  operation,  representing ­
  an  investment  of  approximately  $14,-000,000.