360 XjNGtlLATA. 



Of the 'Slieep credited to Great Britain 16i273',518 

 were in England; 7il44,646' 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 

 J^ofthumhei'land; and 923,755 in Devon. The figures show 

 that there wks one sheep for eaCh 2.5 acres of thfe 17,690,240 

 acres ifl the Kingdbih of Greitt Britain, aiid 1 to each 1.8 

 aci'es 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 Sre dn 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 nutnber of sheep (excluding iambs) 'on 

 farms and ranches iii, the United 5 Sta,te^ in, -I860, was 

 23,97,5,000 ; in 1^7(),, 28^478,000 j in 1880, 42,192^000,; j,n 1890, 

 40,^76,000 ; and in i960, 39,853,000.' , 



111 the far wesF and portions of the state of Ohio wool 

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

 east, sheep raising is generally only an incidept^of , a mixed 

 system of hushandry. 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 thre- far western 

 stiatps 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, ^nd,12, 622,299 wereilanibs born after January 

 1st, 1910. ' 



Of the 91,676,281 in A^strali^ and Tasma,nia; the same 

 year eighty-tive 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 3.0,000 to 100,000 ^eres each.; 50% of the Australian 

 sheep were in New Sonth 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 



