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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a

Comparison with America for Rearing Sheep

Comparison with America for Rearing Sheep.

So much for that valuable animal the sheep. Nowhere in the world does the sheep thrive better than in New Zealand, and practical farmers will know what that means when they consider that in most parts of America the sheep cannot live out of doors in the winter at all. A Canadian farmer has to house his sheep in the winter, and feed them by hand with food specially grown for their use. In fact, so hard a time has the sheep in America, that that country cannot grow wool enough to clothe its people, and has to be constantly importing it. Fifty sheep is quite a flock in the Eastern States or Canada, but in New Zealand we have flocks of 50,000 and over. Our wool export shows what our climate is better than bushels of meteorological reports. Then we only shear once a year In America they shear twice—their spring and fall clip as they call it. Their grass is so full of burrs that they take all the wool they can off in the spring as the autumn wool is spoilt by the burrs. In all the United States of America with their 3½ million square miles of country they have only 43 million sheep. On 100,000 square miles we have 18 million, and can carry at least double the quantity.