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Show Sheep Raising In Australia. The greatest Industry of Australia Is sheep raising, mainly for tho sake of the wool, but also In part, ol course, for the meat Australia now ranks second among tho great sheep raising countries. Argentina belns first with M.000,000 sheep. Australia second with 72,000,000, nnd Itussla third with 70.000.000. Only a tow years ago Australia wn llrst. po seising no less thnn IOC,;00 000 head ot sheep That was In 1801. Prolonged Pro-longed droughts were the causa of the destruction ot many millions of Australian Aus-tralian sheep, but since 1903 there has been an annual gain. Yet these sheep wero not Indigenous to Aus tralla. They wero first Introduced In 1797, being of tho Spanlih merino spoclos. |