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BRITISH policy; 



It is suggestive to note the character as well as tlie amount of British exports 

 and imparts. 



The aggregate value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manu- 

 factures duriug the first eight mouths of the present and two previous years was 

 as follows : 



1864 $543, 581, 095 



1865 512, 003, 480 



1866 626, 329, 100 



During the first seven months tlie imports of foreign and colonial produce 

 were valued as under — 



1864 $595, 342, 145 



1865 471, 525, 310 



1866 » 674, 356, 435 



These imports are almost entirely raw products. The exports, on the con- 

 trary, were, with few and small exceptions, manufactured goods, including a 

 great variety of cotton, woollen, linen, and other textures ; iron, steel, copper, 

 and their manifold products; leather, saddlery, harness; carriages, furniture, 

 and upholstery; glass, earthenware, and porcelain; books, &c. The cotton 

 manufactures, for instance, exported in eight months exceeded $200,000,000. 



The policy of Great Britain is to import raw products, but no manufactures, 

 and to export only manufixctured products bearing the added value of skilled 

 labor upon the original cost of raw material. 



INSECTS. 



The following are among the notes of correspondents pertaining to insect 

 depredations : 



Winnebago county, Illinois. — The potato crop has been injured by the bug 

 in some places, while the rot is damaging it generally. [This bug is probably 

 the ten-lined spearman-^Dor ?//>/? oro decefnlineata.] 



Jackson county, Kansas. — On the 5th of September locusts appeared in such 

 numbers that they ate all the garden vegetables and corn fodder, and the 

 sowing of winter wheat has been delayed thereby. 



Bourhon county, Kansas. — The invading grasshoppei- army has just reached 

 this county, and is rapidly destroying the Avheat sown this fall; but other crops 

 will not be injured, owing to their matured state. 



Butler county, Kansas. — The grasshoppers have destroyed most all the vege- 

 tables and much injured the corn crop. The ground is full of their eggs, and 

 if one-tenth of them shall hatch out next spring they will eat every "green 

 thing" and fill the earth and air. 



Greene county, Alabama. — The planters' prospects are gloomy indeed. The 

 boll worm [Heliothis ar?mgera] and caterpillar [Ano?nis xylina] have nearly 

 ruined the crop. 



Washington county, Mississippi. — The cotton crop is being damaged by the 

 army worm, [Anomis xylina,] and on some plantations they have stripped every 

 green thing, while on others, being in smaller numbers, they have fed and 

 «' webbed up," and are now moths in chrysalis. 



