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Table showing the average yield per acre in 1866, and the prices of the prin- 
cipal farm products of California and Oregon on the 1st day of January, 
1867. 
California. Oregon. 
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DMI Caipee ecco ees tot ccc ete cmen ccm ciscms bushels - 29.3} $1 27 26 $0 68 
IR@ saéa65qeqeeeo beeecoe andoEcesd dosesa sees dolce ai) VSen7 fh ae 39 63 
BTICY Gos e cae = 2-2 ee sn ne pe wieee eee a ee do... 39. 5 83 37 62 
‘CRUBisc Seca Gabo gE SeDR bod SOUC Sea soe samosas do-cer 50 67 42 40 
(homececice a=] sascecce= So cee cee neceam do}= 5-5 45 1 2 30 1 35 
TEOMNOES) San cde Soa soko boas Oo 0soSoS sa Se aeidacs do--- 172 90 150 58 
TEES) saccs6 stbesounousbe coneencsacten ease sdee tons... 1,65] 12 75 If 17 50 
The returns from California are not sufficient to insure perfect accuracy. * They 
are given as the actual averages of returns from the counties reported. 
WOOL CONSUMPTION. 
It is with pleasure that space is accorded to Hon. David A. Wells, special 
commissioner of’ internal revenue, for an explanation relative to his estimate of 
an average annual consumption of six hundred millions of pounds of fleece 
wool or its substitutes. The error, it will be seen, is charged upon the manu- 
facturers, and founded upon their estimate of 2,252,545 pounds weekly con- 
sumption of scoured wool during the exceptional year of 1864, when mills were 
running night and day—a basis which could not properly be taken for an average 
for other years. It is evident, however, that there is an error lying in this manu- 
facturer’s statement, and probably found in the word “scoured,” as all but about 
twenty-eight per cent. was returned as domestic wool, requiring an amount 
nearly equal to the two clips of 1863 and 1864, and nearly two years’ importa- 
tion of foreign wool. Besides, the returns of fleece wool from manufacturers to 
this department, for nearly the same period, almost exactly coincided in quantity 
with the aggregate of wool put down as “scoured” in the manufacturer’s table. 
A portion of this explanation is devoted to showing that four pounds of wool 
are required to make one of cloth—a fact, as to foreign wool, that has never 
been disputed. 
It is to be regretted, however, that Mr. Wells does not revise his estimate, 
and reduce in accordance with such revision his calculated statement of the cost 
of proteetion. ‘The letter is as follows: . 
WASHINGTON, March 4, 1867. 
Str: In the monthly report of the Agricultural Department for January, 
1867, a charge is brought against the Special Commissioner of the Revenue of 
having made a biunder “ worse than the crime of intentional misrepresentation, ’, 
