216 



These items do not include our whole importation of manufactured wools in 

 four months, but they afford a significant intimation of the prospect of selling 

 breadstuffs enougli to pay for our purchases of wool. Eleven millions and a 

 half of dollars for woollens and worsteds in four mouths ! 



Our total imports into Xew York for four months have been : 1864, $90,457,- 

 081 ; 1865, $52,280,622; 1866, $111,847,932; towards paying which we have 

 sent to Great Britain wheat and flour to the amount of nearly a million and a 

 half of dollars in currency, or one cent on a dollar ! 



FARM STOCK OF THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE- 



A comparison of the farm stock of this country and European nations illus- 

 trates well the extent and munificence of our agricultural resources. A vast 

 area of great fertility has enabled us, in the very brief period of our national 

 history, to secure an ampler supply of meat than any other civilized nation in 

 proportion to population. 



There has been a loss, to be sure, since 1860, by the waste of the war, in 

 everything except sheep. It is a loss, however, that stock-growing enterprise, 

 stimulated by high prices, will soon repair. The increase of sheep to double 

 their numbers in 1860 is an earnest of what can be accomplished by such an 

 incitement. If the States reported in the following tables may be assumed fairly 

 to represent this decrease for the whole country, including the southern States 

 and their heavy losses on the one hand, and the steady increase of stock iii the 

 Pacific States on the other, the percentage of decrease since 1860 may be esti- 

 mated as follows: horses, ten per cent.; mules, twenty per cent.; cattle, seven 

 per cent.; swine, twenty-tv/o per cent. 



The following is the statement for 1860 for the whole country: 



Horses 6, 249, 174 



Mules 1, 151, 148 



Cattle 25, 616, 019 



Sheep 22, 471, 275 



Swine 33,512,867 



But there is another return of the assistant marshals in charge of the census, 

 which includes stock not on the schedules of farmers, representing stock in 

 market, in transitu, or in the hands of individuals not stock-growers. Add this, 

 and the exhibit is as follovrs : 



Horses 7, 434, 688 



Mules 1, 317, 934 



Cattle 28, 963, 028 



Sheep 23, 977, 085 



Swine 36, 980, 772 



