VICTORIA STOCK RETURNS.
AN ALL-ROUND 'RECOVERY.
The figures relating to the number of live stock in the State at the, end of vMarch aro less depressing than those of the preceding year for the' same period, but there is still great room for improvement. Korses show an increase of about 4 per cent, in tho, last 12 months, the actual number • being 412,829 head, against 124,903 head in March, 1909. Cattle of all descriptions again show loss, amounting to 1-J per cent., as against a decline of 11 per cent, in the preceding year. The number now is 1,549,610 head, as compared with 1,574,162 head last year. On this' occasion, however, dairy cows, in which there was a loss of over 100,009 head in 1909, show an increase of 15,95G head, at 625,063 head. Sheep have increased by 392,241 to 12,937,983, as against a'loss of 1,600,992 in the previous twelve months. Pigs have gained 38,563 to 217,921 in number. To show the leeway that has.to bo made up before the 1908 figures are reached, live stock has yet to gain 64,216 dairy cows, 208,951 other cattle, and 1,209,751 sheep. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 10
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189VICTORIA STOCK RETURNS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 10
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