SHEEP RETURNS.
According to the New Zealand Mail there are about 18,000,000 sheep in New Zealand, 8,000,000 of which are in the North Island and the remainder in the South Island. Of these it is estimated that about a third are merinoes ; about a quarter of a million less than that number are Lincolns and crosses. Something more than one-sixth are Border Leicester and English Leicester, the former predominating; there are about a million and a-half of Shropshire, South, or other downs, whilst the Romney Marsh is represented by a little over a million. The sheep in the North Island consist principally of crossbreds, the Lincoln blood predominating. Where the land is wet there is a tendency to use Romney Marsh rams, and Border Leicester's are also being introduced, but the numbers of merinoes and Southdowns are very limited. In the South Island there are about five million merinoes, and a similar number of long-wools, downs, and crossbreds are kept and fattened.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 3
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162SHEEP RETURNS. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 May 1893, Page 3
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