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SHEEP NUMBERS
INCREASING
The number of sheep in Australia
at March 31, 1952, reached
117,047,000, an increase of two
million, or 18 per cent., over the
previous year, and 5.9 per cent,
over 1939.
Dairy cows at 2,972,000 were
down more than five per cent, on
the previous year, and 7.4 per
cent, on the 1939 figures.
Beef cattle at 10,327,001) decreased
by a similar percentage.
Pigs were numbered at just
over a million, showing a decrease
of ten per cent, on the
previous year, or 11.6 below the
1939 figure.
The number of horses in Australia
in 1932 totalled 937 000,
which was 62,000 below that of
1951, or little more than half
that of 1939 when there were
1,724,000 listed in livestock statistics.
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