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and 2,400 in 1972. Fauquier follows, 2,600 in 1965 and 1,800 in 1972 and Rappahannock was last, down to 800 from 1,200 in 1965.
Clarke and Loudoun showed slight increases in the late sixties, but in Fauquier and Rappahannock the trend has been steadily downward. Extension agents in the four counties agree that sheep farmers have become even fewer since the 1972 statistics and the agents said the decline would be even more pronounced if they could compare with statistics of 20 years ago, like those William Lyne remembered.
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