PASTORAL MATTERS.
SHEEPBREEDERS' ASSOCIATION,
By Telegraph—Proaa Association—Copyright Received 1,5 a.m., July 6. Sydney, July 5. Presiding at the Sheepbreeders’ annual meeting Mr F. £. Sutton said that assuming there were at present 10 million breeding ewes in the State, and allowing for the ordinary rate of consumption of food and a yearly increase of 20 to 25 per cent., in four years the docks would be brought up to the strength of the year, about 40 millions. Since 1860 this State alone received 266 millions from the sale of wool.
At the sheep dog trial in connection with the show a dog owned by H. L. Little, of New Zealand, won the second prize.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 934, 6 July 1903, Page 2
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113PASTORAL MATTERS. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 934, 6 July 1903, Page 2
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