WOOL PER SHEEP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 2

WOOL PER SHEEP.

Iho reduced sheep statistic? of Ausira,ia. as compared with twenty yea>-s or so ago, do not adeouatplv represent the wool industry, remarks an Australian correspondent. This means that the yield per'head has so greatly inorea^d m recent years that in some rasps it 15 two to thr?e. Hitherto, however, o. great rumber of farmers have kept their yields in the back- j ground, instead of making them a fea-! '- 8 of competition with their neio-h- \ bor.s The returns published by Mr R. Eckford. of Glenroy, Inverell, are interesting-, as they give other men in : '■ie same business data for comparison. I In all 11,000 sheep were, shorn, which average 141b 3oz of wool on thirteen months' growth. The clip averaged 42 bales to the thousand sheep. The wool too, was of splendid length. It real- , lsed at the sales 133 d per Ib. These returns, it will be seen, are distinctly good, and make the grower the envied or a great many breeders, whose returns must fall very far short of these interesting figures.