Sheep Decreasing in Europe
■ ■ . - — im-. .-'":. -> ' A London correspondent of, the Sydney Morning Herald, write* tbat the number of sheep in Europe was decreas. ing. In Belgium, Hungary, Germany and' Austria' the. decrease* was • large; there was a decrease in France, a large increase in Italy, and-' a small increase in Russia, In Australia aud j- ei-j Zealand |h|re hfd|bern^an increase in 10 years" of from 53,000,000 to 80.000,000 sheep— that was of 36 per cent. ; In the United States there bad been a large increase of from 36,000,000 to 50,500,000 height years, but North America was not a wool exporting country. Our total imports of wpcl bad increased fr0m3^.000,0661b in 1874 to 519.0(10,000 in 1884— an increase of nearly 50 per cent. We now got # per cent. Inite&d of 10 per cent, from Europe, and 4 per e;nt. instead of 7 per cent; from Sdiith America, while Australia and New Zealand sent Aow. three fourths' instead of twe^thirdsJof the whole.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 127, 11 April 1885, Page 2
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