N.S.W. LIVE STOCK RETURNS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13976, 8 May 1913, Page 8

N.S.W. LIVE STOCK RETURNS

MATERIAL DECREASE IN XLARLV XIX MILLION' FEWER. SH EEP. Ar •••,*4 im.-ile i'l !he number of live--11 the STTe at the end of ‘1912 ■-- " : rompi led t.y t lie Chief Inspect^;- ' ! ‘ -\L- S. T. D. Symons, from ■ ' i; - i iniiMiefi In* the slock inspector,; iii C: various districts. Tiiese figures hov, a heavy all-round decrease, amounl- >'•'£ '• the case of. sheep to nearly six mills.;-, clearly indicating the ravages ■ i I; -’ y.-ar’s short but severe dro nght •’■i -.; ... juent disastrous-lambing. There i- i- > a decrease of over a quarter of a mi loi ia cattle, and nearly 1 ],(«!() in he: The Stock Branch lignros are as foliar. ll<n ses—Xnmbors returned, - 51 (5,724-; estimated, not returned 33,284; total 570, COS. ('a tile —.\ uni tiers retained 2,328,439; estimated, not returned 230,162; total 2,358.601. Sheep—X timbers returned 34.812,283; Estimated, not returned, 2,370,971. Total 37,38!,254. Returned 1911—Horses 580,957: cattle 2,797.031; sheep 43,331,334. Devi-easi—Horses 10,949; cattle 238,430; sheep 5,918,080. It s pointed out that the lolals as given in (Ids progress return arc compiled from act mil returns received by the stock mspi-. tors in each Pastures Protection distihit, to which arc added estimates made by those officers of each kind of -to: I: not returned by owners up to January 2.!(h Although a large decrease is general in this return, ii is officially lioped 11-itI 1 -it alien the complete returns are received the fo’vgoing losses' will be reduced.