31 



The Cnnarlian returns of their exports of -wool to the United States do not 



agree witli our returns of the imports of wool from the Canadas, These retuma 

 fur 1863 are as follows : 



Pounds. Value. 



Canadian rotuvns 2,475,918 $974, 153 



United States returns 1,980,05:3 781,867 



Difference 495,865 192,286 



If like differences exist as to other articles and as to other nations, and they 

 are owing to our laws relative to the )-ogistering of exports and imports, it is 

 necessary that these laws were amended. 



Stock of wool on hand in New York Jamiary 1. 



1865. 1866. 



Foreig:n pounds 13,000,000 7,800,000 



Domestic do.. 4,700,000 4,450,000 



Total pounds 17,700,000 12,250,000 



The wool consumption of the United States for 1S65 may he estimated to 

 have been as follows : 



Domestic production of loyal Atlantic Stales, pounds 114,589,076 



Domestic prcdnction of Calit'ornia, pounds 8, 480, 931 



Foreign, (including Canada) 37,535, 096 



Total consumed in 1865, pounds 160,605, 103 



EXPOETS OF PETEOLEUM AND IJMPORTS OF COFFEE, SUGAE, AND MO- 

 LASSES. 



For the following tables of the exports of petroleum and the imports of coffee, 

 sugar, and molasses, we are indebted to that excellent commercial paper, the 

 Shipping and Commercial List, of New York. 



These will attract the attention of our readers, for the foreign trade in that 

 most strange of all products of the earth, petroleum, is as interesting to the farmer 

 as to any other class not directly eng;iged in the oil business, and the imports 

 of the "leading groceries," having such universal consumption in our country, 

 have been always sought f t by those consuming them. How far we shall ever 

 make our country independent for sugar and molasses is an unsolved problem. 

 But Louisiana once divided into small plantations, and with the present prom- 

 ised success realized in sorghum sugar production, these heavy imports may be 

 greatly reduced. 



