SC - Lamb!!! (and kids)

[Charles McCathieNevile]

Australia IS marginal land, about as big as the US. Also, shearing was a 
major Australian sport. And was crucial to the economy until well after 
WWII. The shearers' union in the late 19th century was one of the most 
powerful groups in the land, despite being composed mostly of people with 
no fixed address who were only seasonally employed.

Charles Ragnar

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Par Leijonhufvud wrote:
> > produce lamb year round in enough quantity to make a profit without 
> > needing to go to the trouble of  the shearing process after the 
> > additional effort of making sure the wool ends up a good enough quality 
> But sheep can thrive under conditions where pigs will not. I have a hard
> time imagining free-range pigs on Iceland. Australia is still, AFAIK, a
> place where it is cheep to have large acreage of marginal land, and
> sheep is an animal that does reasonably well under those conditions.
> /UlfR
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