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THE PASTORAL INDUSTRY.

LIVE STOCK IN DOMINION. The annual report of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board gives the following particulars as to live stock in the Dominion in 1927, with comparative figures: — The number of sheep in the Dominion continues to show a steady increase, tho interim figures in respect of tho stocks as at April 39, 1927, showing an increase over the previous year of 467,331. The number of breeding ewes shows a further increase —tho 1926 total being 233.029 in excess of tho previous year. Tho number of sheep in the Dominion for each year, commencing with 1908, is as follows: —

Particulars of the lambing in the Dominion for each year, commencing with 1920, are given in the following statement:

The latest returns in respect of the number of pigs in the Dominion show an increase. in 1927 of 43,666. The stocks for each year (as at January 31) from 1916 onwards, arc shown in the following statement: —

Tho number of cattle in the Dominion for each year (as at January 31) since 1916 is as follows: — Year. Total Cattle.

Year. Total. 1908 ... ... 22.449,053 1909 ... ... 23,480,707 1910 ... ... 24.269,620 1911 ... ... 25.996.126 1912 ... ... 23.750,153 1913 ... ... 24.191.810 1914 ... ... ... 24,798,763 1915 ... ... 24,901,421 1916 ... ... 24,788,150 1917 ... ... 25.270,386 1913 ... ... 26.558.302 1919 ... ... 25,823,554 1920 ... ... 25.919.970 1921 ... ... 23,285.031 1922 ... ... 22.222.259 1923 ... ... 23.081.439 1924 ... ... ... 25,775.776 1925 ... ... 24,547,955 1926 ... ... 24.904.993 1927 (in terim) • • a ... 25,372.374

Year. Breeding-ewes. Lambs tailed. 1920 11.563,549 9.614.548 1921 12.147,783 10,267.910 1922 12.496,054 10,895.52.1 1923 13.063,003 11,133.336 1924 13,076.094 11,467.147 1925 13,715,223 11.435.780 1926 13,948,252

Year. 1916 297.501 1917 283,770 ' 25-3.694 ?*’ 7 47 1920 ... ?.. 266.829 349.892 384,335 1923 4" ... 400.839 1924 414.271 1925 440.115 1926 ... ... 472.534 1927 (interim) 516.200

1916 2,417,491 1917 2,575.230 1913 2,869.465 1919 3,035,478 1920 3.101 945 1921 3,139.235. 1922 3,323,223 1923 3.480.694 1924 3,563.497 1925 3.503.744 1926 3.452,486 1927 (interim) ... — 3,241,630

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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 14

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THE PASTORAL INDUSTRY. Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 14

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