ANNUAL SHEEP RETURNS.
The complete annual sheep returns for 1917, which are summarized in tabulated form on another page, show a total of 25,270,386 sheep for the Dominion. This is an increase of 482,236 as compared with the previous year, and the total is the highest recorded. Breeding-ewes show an increase of 367,402 —namely, 244,968 in the North Island and 122,434 in the South Island. An innovation in the returns this year is that the stud sheep returned by owners are only those entered in the respective flock-books. This will explain the apparent decrease of stud sheep as compared with previous years.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 3, 20 September 1917, Page 154
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102ANNUAL SHEEP RETURNS. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 3, 20 September 1917, Page 154
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