SOUTH AFRICAN SHEEP
AN INCREASING TOTAL. The Standard Bank of South Africa in its monthly review, states:— Statistics of the live stock population of the Union, taken from the recently published preliminary figures of the 1924-25 Agricultural Census, show thut while tho numbers of cattle, gouts and pigs remained . almost stationary, and those of horses and ostriches steadily declined, as compared ,with a year earlier, a remarkable Increase has taken place in the number of woolled sheep. Some part of this increase is probably due to the classing as "woolled" of sheep previously descrbied as "non-wooled," but even after making allowance for this, th. 3 increase in woolled sheep cannot have been leas than 3,500,000, or about 13 per cent. '.' v \ ..
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Shannon News, 19 April 1927, Page 3
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121SOUTH AFRICAN SHEEP Shannon News, 19 April 1927, Page 3
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