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Year	Sheep	Dairy cows
1851	0.223	
1858	1.523	
1861	2.761	
1864	4.937	
1867	8.419	
1871	9.701	
1876	11.705	
1878	13.069	
1881	12.985	
1886	16.565	
1891	18.128	
1892	18.570	
1893	19.380	
1895	19.827	0.257
1897	19.688	
1899	19.308	
1901	20.233	
1903	18.954	
1905	19.131	0.550
1907	20.984	
1909	23.481	
1911	23.996	
1917	25.270	
1919	25.828	
1921	23.285	
1923	23.081	
1925	24.548	1.178
1927	25.649	
1929	29.051	
1931	29.792	
1933	27.756	
1935	29.077	1.828
1936	30.114	
1937	31.306	
1938	32.379	
1939	31.897	
1940	31.063	
1941	31.752	
1942	29.256	
1943	29.636	
1944	33.200	
1945	33.975	1.679
1946	30.476	
1947	32.682	
1948	32.483	
1949	32.845	
1950	33.857	
1951	34.786	
1952	35.384	
1953	36.193	
1954	38.011	
1955	39.117	1.995
1956	40.255	
1957	42.382	
1958	46.026	
1959	46.876	
1960	47.134	
1961	48.462	
1962	48.988	
1963	50.190	
1964	51.292	
1965	53.748	2.032
1966	57.343	
1967	60.030	
1968	60.474	
1969	59.937	
1970	60.276	
1971	58.912	3.198
1972	60.883	3.288
1973	56.684	3.159
1974	55.883	3.074
1975	55.320	2.998
1976	56.400	2.930
1977	59.105	2.899
1978	61.278	2.911
1979	63.791	2.900
1980	68.772	2.969
1981	69.884	2.922
1982	70.301	3.007
1983	70.263	3.134
1984	69.739	3.246
1985	67.854	3.308
1986	67.470	3.398
1987	64.244	3.195
1988	64.600	3.200
1989	60.569	3.302
1990	57.852	3.441
1991	55.162	3.429
1992	52.568	3.468
1993	50.298	3.550
1994	49.466	3.839
1995	48.816	4.090
1996	47.394	4.165
1999	45.680	4.316
2002	39.572	5.162
2003	39.552	5.102
2004	39.271	5.152
2005	39.880	5.087
2006	40.082	5.170
2007	38.460	5.261
2008	34.088	5.578
2009	32.384	5.861
2010	32.563	5.915
2011	31.132	6.175
2012	31.263	6.446
2013	30.787	6.484
2014	29.803	6.698

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