WORLD SHEEP NUMBERS
INCREASE OF 22 MILLION IN YEAR
World sheen numbers at the beginning of 1948 are estimated at about 711 million head, or 22 million head more than-the preceding year, says the New Zealand Wool Board News Service. This is an increase of 3 per cent, over 1947, but is still 3 per cent i-.nl«w th- r - year average for the 1936-40 period.' • The most significant increase since the beginning of 1947 occurred in Australia, with smaller increases in all other continents, except North America, where sheep numbers, particularly in the United States and Canada, continued to decline.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14713, 3 July 1948, Page 4
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