SHEEP IN AMERICA.
Sheep raising has for over a decade been gradually decreasing in U.S.A. For the last three years every section has shown a slight increase, stimulated by the relatively favourable market conditions which have been prevailing for lamb and wool at a time when the cattle and pig businesses have been profoundly depressed. Only two regions, however, have more eheep this year than they had before the war, namely, the south-west and the wheat belt. This latter region has expanded its sheep business, as well as ether lines of live-stock production, to the effects of low wheat prices. south-west, moreover, has turned to isheep because of their greater ability to withstand the recurrent droughts. Furthermore, the south-western range is adapted to both cattle and sheep raising, and the latter has been far more profitable in recent years. In all other regions isheep production has decreased substantially, the light supply being the main treason for the present prosperity of the pheep business, * » . -«
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 14
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