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million pounds of wool. At tliis time there is manufoctured here about one- 

 hundred and fifty million pounds annually, so that our domestic wools may be 

 greatly further increased. Here is a great field now open before the farmer to 

 increase his flocks, and to produce such qualities of wool, by proper breeding, 

 as the manufacturers most need. What their wants are will be shown, from 

 time to time, in these reports. 



This increase may go on until our own manufacturers shall not only supply 

 home consumption, but export to foreign countries. American enterprise should 

 successfully compete with that of Great Britian, The exports of woollens of 

 England during the first nine months of 1864 are as follows : 



To United States. 



"Woollen and worsted yarn pounds 25, 022, 061 



Woollen cloths, &c Ayards 24, 044, 717 5, 094, 641 



Flannels .- " 6, 652, 377 



Blankets " 5,556,475 



Blanketing and baizes " 1, 21.3, 037 



Carpets, ^c " 4,889,868 1,507,594 



Carpet rugs, &;c number 748, 762 193, 236 



Worsted stuffs yards 155, 848, 452 44, 730, 084 



The tables do not show how much of woollen yarns, flannels, and blankets 

 were exported to the United States, but they exhibit the fiict that there is opened 

 for American enterprise a large field for competition, and in j)roportion as it is 

 occupied by our manufacturers will be the increased production of American 

 wool. There should, then, be harmony and co-operation between the producers 

 of wool and its consumers. 



During the same nine months Great Britain imported wools to the amount. 

 of 148,140,746 pounds, of which it received from 



British Possessions in South Africa 10, 997, 061 lbs. $3, 757, 620 



British East Indies 10, 548, 339 " 1, 911, 005 



Australia 84, 919, 64.5 " 34, 814, 035 



Hanse Towns and other parts of Europe. . . 26, 473, 020 " 7, 638, 460 



132, 938, 065 48, 121, 120 



The average value of all is 36.J cents per pound, and of the lowest, from the 

 Indies, 18 cents per pound, gold value. 



From this table is seen the extent of the wool importations of Great Britian, 

 and that the average prices are not so low but that the American wool-grower 

 can compete with them. The low-priced India wool finds a rival in California wools, 

 the price of which was, on November 1, for California fall clip 13^ to 16 cents- 

 per pound at San Francisco. Of the more valuable kinds there is no country 

 so well adapted to their production as the Atlantic States, for the same cause- 

 that gives superiority to our cotton and tobacco is favorable to avooI also. That 

 cause we now proceed at some length to point out. . 



2. The cause of the super ior it ij of American cotton, tobacco, and wool. — Thit" 

 will be found in the climate. All of our readers know that the climate of the 

 Atlantic States differs much from that of the Pacific. The one has rain during 

 the whole year, the other during the winter months only. The crops of the one 

 receive showers during their entire growth; those of the other during their 

 winter growth only. The wool of the one is sheared annually; of the other 

 twice, that the growth of the winter may be separated from the short, dry, 

 brittle growth made during the dry season. The San Francisco papers quote 

 spring wool at 20 to 23 cents per pound, and fall wool at from 13 to 18 cents- 

 per pound. The climates of South Africa, the East Indies, Australia, and 

 Brazil have their wet and dry seasons, and Egypt is nearly rainless. Here w& 



