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Sheep Statistics

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
August
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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AccorcliDg to tiie most trustwortüy anthority, the present number of sheep i in the United States is abont 37,000,000, yielding an animal clip of wool of 150,000,000 pounds. The ntimber of sheep slaughterod for mutton yearly is about 7,000,000. The capital invested in sheep and sheep husbandry in the United States is over $250,000,000. The annual product of these sheep is about $90,000,000. This is not a largo exhibit for a country of the size and population of the United States. Brazil has 70,000,000 sheep; the British Islands, 34,500,000. England is the greatest sheepproducing country in the world in proportion to its cultivated land. The Spanish proverb, "The hoof of the sheep is gold," is true with the British, for they receive annually from their sheep the sum of $150,000,000.

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Old News
Michigan Argus