United States Department Of Agriculture
Published: 2018-03-19
Total Pages: 46
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Excerpt from Australia's Livestock and Meat Industry and the U. S. Producer: October 1959 Australia' 5 large land area is well suited to livestock production. It has 150 million head of sheep - nearly 5 times the United States total; it has 17 million cattle, compared with 97 million in the United States. In sheep farming, emphasis is on wool production; nearly 30 percent of the Austral ian sheep are wethers. Although lamb crops are low, mutton and lamb production reached a high of 920 million pounds in 1958, compared with 688 million pounds in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.