SHEEP POPULATION
■ DOWNWARD TREND BIG DECLINE IN RUSSIA LONDON, Sept. IS. V Tlie trend of the world’s sheep popu--0 pit ion has been downward in recent. years, according to the Imperial e Economic Committee’s report on wool s production and trade. y Before 1030 Russia possessed the largest number of sheep. After that p date the total fell from 100,500,000 p to 45,400,000. There has been an in- - crease in the second five-year plan, r the latest total being 55,600,000 11 for 1935, compared with Australia's lj 113,000,000, which is the largest dock iin the world. South African and jt Argentine sheep have also declined in y j numbers. e j
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 9
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111SHEEP POPULATION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 9
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