text: The following year Ana María gave birth to a son, named Darío. Quiroga decided, as soon as the children could walk, that he would personally take care of their upbringing. Stern and dictatorial, Quiroga demanded that every little detail be done according to his requirements. From a young age, he got his children used to the mountains and the jungle. Quiroga exposed them to danger so that they would be able to cope alone and overcome any situation. He even went so far as to leave them alone at night in the jungle, or make them sit on the edge of a cliff with their legs dangling into the void. His daughter learned to breed wild animals and the son to use a shotgun, ride a motorbike and travel alone in a canoe. Quiroga's children never objected to these experiences and actually benefited from them. Their mother, however, was terrified and exasperated by her husband's eccentric ways. Elements of this upbringing appear in his short story, "Hijo," ("Son") written in 1935 and included in his collection Más allá.
  Between 1912 and 1915 the writer, who already had experience as a cotton farmer and herbalist, undertook a bold pursuit to increase the farming and maximize the natural resources of their lands. He began to distill oranges and produce coal and resins, as well as many other similar activities. Meanwhile, he raised livestock, domesticated wild animals, hunted, and fished. Literature continued to be the peak of his life: in the journal Fray Mocho de Buenos Aires Quiroga published numerous stories, many set in the jungle and populated by characters so naturalistic that they seemed real.