78 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH, 



NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN STATES, 



JANUARY, 1878. 

 STATES. Number of sheep. 



Maine 525,800 



New Hampshire 239,900 



Vermont 461,400 



Massachusetts 60,300 



Rhode Island 24,500 



Connecticut 92,500 



New York 1,518,100 



New Jersey 128,300 



Pennsylvania 1,607,600 



Ohio 3,783,000 



Michigan '. 1,750,000 



Indiana 1,092,700 



Illinois 1,258,500 



Wisconsin 1,323,700 



Minnesota 300,000 



Iowa ' 560,000 



Kansas 156,000 



Nebraska 62,400 



California 6,561,000 



Oregon 1,074,600 



Nevada 72,000 



Colorado 600,000 



The Territories 2,600,000 



Total 25,852,300 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



Relation of Wool-production to Customs Duties. This pa- 

 per, intended for circulation at the South, where theo- 

 retical opinions on questions of political economy, differing 

 from our own, largely prevail, is no place for the discus- 

 sion of the vexed questions of free-trade and protection. 

 But it would be a false delicacy on our part wholly to 

 ignore the absolute dependence of the sheep husbandry of 

 the United States upon a wise revenue legislation. The 

 practical fact exists, that the revenue of the United States, 

 for a long time to come, must be principally obtained from 

 duties on foreign imports. All, independently of their theo- 

 retical opinions, will admit that these duties should be so 

 imposed as to least injure the national industries. Many, 

 who are not theoretical protectionists, will go even farther, 



