360 UNGULATA. 



Of the sheep credited to Great Britain 16,273,518 

 were in England ; 7,144,646 in Scotland ; 3,979,516 in Ire- 

 land ; 3,684,781 in Wales ; and 82,126 on the Isle of Man 

 and in Jersey and Guernsey. Of the English sheep 1,024,- 

 934 were in Kent; 1,097,923 in Lincoln; 1,140,913 in 

 Northumberland ; and 923,755 in Devon. The figures show 

 that there was one sheep for each 2.5 acres of the 17,690,240 

 acres in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and 1 to each 1.8 

 acres in England and Wales alone. The United States 

 had 1.36 sheep for each of its 1,903,461,760 acres. At pres- 

 ent 57% of the sheep in the United States are in eleven 

 States west of the Rocky Mountains. In 1840 over 66% 

 were in six Eastern and Central States: New York hav- 

 ing 5,119,000; Ohio, 2,028,000; Pennsylvania, 1,768,000; 

 Vermont, 1,682,000 ; Virginia, 1,294,000 ; Kentucky, 1,008,- 

 000. The total number of sheep (excluding lambs) on 

 farms and ranches in the United States in 1860, was 

 23,975,000; in 1870, 28,478,000 ; in 1880, 42,192,000 ; in 1890, 

 40,876,000; and in 1900, 39,853,000. 



In the far west and portions of the state of Ohio wool 

 raising is a separate industry, but in the middle west and 

 east, sheep raising is generally only an incident of a mixed 

 system of husbandry. In 1910 the average number of sheep 

 and lambs to a ranch on the 609,323 sheep farms in the 

 United States was 85, although in some of the far western 

 states the average was over 3,000. The census showed that 

 of the total of 51,809,068 reported from the ranches and 

 farms that year, 31,582,097 were ewes, 7,604,672 were rams 

 and wethers, and 12,622,299 were lambs born after January 

 1st, 1910. 



Of the 91,676,281 in Australia and Tasmania the same 

 year eighty-five per cent were in flocks of 1,000 or over, and 

 fifty per cent in flocks of 10,000 and upward. In Queens- 

 land and New South Wales a large percentage of the flocks 

 contained from 20,000 to 50,000 individuals, and some 

 numbered over 100,000 sheep each. The holdings were 

 from 10,000 to 100,000 acres each. 50% of the Australian 

 sheep were in New South Wales; 21.37% in Queensland, 

 7.07% in South Australia, 5.16% in West Australia, and 

 1.89% in Tasmania. 



The following table shows the total number of sheep in 

 each state and section of the United States in 1910, as well 



