Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Sheep in Australia. [ARTICLE]

Sheep in Australia.

Some idea of the extent of the sheep industry in Australia may be gathered from the fact that in New South Wales alone there are 42,000 sheep runs. The area comprised in these holdings is not far from 190,000,000 acres. This would make the average run of about 4,500 acres. Over eighty per cent, of these holdings are leased from the Colonial Government. All, or nearly all, of the best sheep country in the Australian colonies is now occupied, and any additional increase in the number of sheep which the country can be made to carry must be effected by improvements in the way of irrigation and the character of the herbage.—[New York World.