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believed to exist in former times; it is a much debated point both in the Middle East and in California, where special experiments are in progress at the San Dimas Experiment Station. The only hope for the hill lands of Palestine is that the ever-increasing pressure of human population will lead necessarily to increased terracing and tree culture, olives, figs, apricots, etc, and a great change in the Arab ideas and practices of animal husbandry. Grazing by hordes of low-grade low-producing animals must be replaced by many fewer but superior tethered and hand-fed animals producing the same total quantity of animal products. It would then become economic to spend money and labour producing fodder for them. The average milk yield of an Arab Awasi sheep is 30-150 litres permilking season. The top selected animal recorded by the Jewish Sheep Association produced 490 litres, on stall feeding

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• The Distribution of Native Population over East Africa

  Open Access•J K Baker, S J K Baker•Africa•1937

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