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Journal of Agricidiure. 



[lo Dec. . ] 909. 



It will therefore be seen that ^jrogress as measured by all kinds of live stock, 

 with the exception of sheep, has been slower than in the rest of the .State, 



SOME OF THE TEAMS. 



diirv cows in particular increasing only 21 per cent, as against an average 

 of 36 for the whole State. The confirmation of the general trend of 

 affairs in these counties is also seen by the decrease in the number of pigs 

 during the above period. Had dairy farming been pushing ahead so that 



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the increased returns wei-e more than balancing the falling off in cultivation 

 the number of swine would have increased. Instead of this, however, the 

 trend has been precisely the same as in the rest of the State, the only 

 difference being that the retrograde process has been a little faster. In 



