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But the whole estimate is a grand blunder. This country needs now scarcely 
more than fifty million pounds of cloth, and not more than one hundred and 
seventy million pounds of wool. Our manufacturers are now doing little, and 
some of our wool-growers have two or three clips on hand. There is to-day, 
with the spring clip, as much clothing-wool in the country as we need to manu- 
facture until shearing-time in 1868; and in three years, with proper protection, 
our wool-growers can easily produce every ounce of wool needed, carpet wools 
and all. 
This strange misstatement of the revenue report, which is not indorsed by 
any intelligent manufacturer, or any association, is calculated to produce two 
results : 
1. Misrepresent the amount of taxation possibly resulting from protection. 
2. Create the impression that we need at least five times as much foreign 
wool as there is any occasion for. 
Error third—TYhe hypothesis that the duty will necessarily increase the 
price of wool and cost of cloth by the full amount of such duty. Free-traders 
usually assume that it does, and they very frequently prove, for their own pur- 
poses, from admitted facts, that it does not. In another portion of the revenue 
report it is admitted that the increased duty of last summer did not increase 
the price of wool. If such result has just occurred, and often before, with 
what propriety can it be assumed that it never will again? But it is no part 
of the present purpose to discuss this question. 
It has been shown that two-thirds of the assumed cost of the proposed duty 
on wool is based upon over-estimates, reducing $71,250,000 to $23,750,000. 
Unless the assumption of increased price should be more accurate than the esti- 
mate of consumption, there would be little left of the remaining sum to act as 
a bugbear to consumers of woollens. 
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO COTTON PLANTS—NO. 6, 
THE RED-BUG, OR COTTON-STAINER. 
(Dysdercus suturellus. TH. Scur.) 
This destructive insect is found by millions in East Florida on the cotton , 
plantations, where it does immense damage by staining the fibre of the cotton 
in the bolls, and rendering it unfit for use where pure white fabrics are required. 
The specimens figured were found near Jacksonville, in October, on the open 
bolls, under the dried calyx, congregating together on the dead leaves under the 
plants, on rotten logs, or decayed wood. Several of the open bolls were actually 
red with these insects, exhibiting every stage of growth from the larva to the 
perfect insect, all clustered together in such masses as almost to hide the white 
of the cotton itself. The beak or rostrum is.four-jointed, with the end blackish, 
and when not in use is recurved under the thorax, which is somewhat triangular 
in shape, with the anterior part red; a narrow, distinct band of whitish-yellow 
divides the thorax from thé head; the posterior part is black, edged between 
the thorax and wing-cases with, whitish-yellow; the scutellum is triangular, 
red, and edged with a distinct line of whitish-yellow on each side and partly 
down the centre of the wing-case; the elytra or wing-cases are flat, brownish- 
