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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 715, 11 February 1919, Page 3

The number of sheep m New Zealand totals 26,586,302. m spite of exporting yearly over 6,000,000 for local consumption, our farmers man* ago to increase their flocks by newly 1,000,000 per year m good seasons— I a most wonderful performance Ihe value of wool exported annualy m normal times is about £8,000,000 ; of frozen mutton and lamb, together *»th pelts, fat, eto , £'',000,000 apart fTom £4,000,000 worth used locally. Great^fiS--these results are, there is fettlV room for enormous expansion m sheep farming by utilising th^ milliouWt^Qces of idle country, and by adop^yimore intensive methods m feedii^Sfld fattening.