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County Sheep Population Lowest in Fifty Years “Virginia Livestock,” published by the Virginia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service in 1962, shows there were 5086 sheep in the county in 1910; 2300 head in 1961. A summary of the sheepflock inspection reports made in the county by Jim Yates and Jim Massie in conjunction with the recent Scabies Eradication Program shows there are now but 1723 head of adult sheep on but 58 farms. In fact, none of the census figures available show the population to ever
89.2%