ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



Recent statistics place the number of swine 

 in the nations which are the chief producers 

 of that animal as follows : The United States, 

 67,000,000; Germany, 17,000,000; Russia, 

 11,000,000; Hungary, 7,000,000; Canada, 

 3,000,000, Spain, 2,000,000; Roumania, 2,000,- 

 000; Poland, Belgium, Denmark, the Nether- 

 lands and Australasia, each 1,000,000, the 

 United States thus having much the larger 

 proportion of the world's supply. All but four- 

 hundredths of a per cent of the sheep of the 

 United States are upon farms and ranges. 

 Since the period of the New Earth the aver- 

 age production of wool per sheep in the United 

 States has increased 140 per cent, while wool 

 product has increased 300 per cent. During 

 the same period sheep have increased in num- 

 bers in the United States 67 per cent, which, 

 taken in connection with the situation abroad, 

 and with the possibilities for the extension of 

 sheep-raising in this country, forms an inter- 

 esting situation. Throughout foreign countries 

 there has been, curiously enough, a falling off 

 in sheep production in the same period. A 

 recent United States consular report shows 

 that the flocks of the world outside of the 



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