FARMING NEWS.
RURAL RAKING
Wool Clip Lower. The excessively dry season in Australia is responsible, for a shrinkage in tho woo .clip now coining to Australia’s seaboard for appraisement and some estimates are being made that tlie cheque for the year will be £57.000,000 as against nearly £65 000,000 last year. Fewer Sheep in Australia.
The numbers of sheep in Australia have declined slightly and the average yield per sheep is down about 5 per cent. I/ess wool will be available during the current year than last season whon 3,604,316 bales were shorn, and returns this season will not be augmented by tho presence of large carryover stocks, as was the case in 1939-40.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 248, 17 September 1940, Page 10
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114FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 248, 17 September 1940, Page 10
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