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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Stock

Stock.

The total number of sheep in the Otago Provincial District, including Southland, on the 30th April, 1896, was 3,995,496, of which rather more than two-fifths were merinos. On an average, about one-third of the flocks consist of breeding-ewes. The shearing is mostly done by hand, but the Wolseley shearing-machines have been introduced on about ten stations, the number of machines in each wool, shed varying generally from ten to fifteen, though there is one shed at Benmore, near Lake Ohau, where there are twenty-eight machines driven by a turbine.

In November last there were 53,076 horses; 57 mules and asses; 185,109 cattle; and 28,048 pigs.

The rabbit-pest is still a severe tax on the stockowners; the number of skins exported last year for the whole colony being 10,828,612, nearly the whole of which came from Otago.