THE WORLD'S SHEEP
The Empire Marketing Board hat issued an elaborate 200-page statistical survey of Empire and foreign production of wool. It estimates thai the world's sheep population is 800, 000,000, producing 3,500,000,0001 btc 4,000,000,0001 bof wool annually, ol which 1,500,000,0001 b, including the world's best, comes from Australia South Africa and New Zealand. After reviewing the production and prices over the past 40 years the report says there has been no. excep. tional increase of the sheep population and wool production in recent years. The Empire has maintained its share of sheep at one-third, and wool production at half the world totals. The Empire wool export trade is two.thirds of the world's. There is no abnormally large accumulation of stocks of raw wool in the principal exporting countries, and no large stocks have accumulated in an effort to maintain prices, while proposals to restrict sales to stabil ise prices have been vigorously PP» posed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 August 1932, Page 2
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