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of Southern and Eastern Tibet. 



felted silky underwool. whieh 

 wrmmtful. AS the Tibetans 4o not 



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ids some interesting particulars <.f the 



murks that the Kashmiris have a mon< . 

 whence they export it all 

 ami enn\ .is* lor it ch-i-lly in 

 however, most of this i- 

 nhoultl amount to hundreds of tons aim 



its great value, and 

 its winter coat in spring, or the gon- 



Imported Kirmimi wool and the still 

 in and Afghanistan), after being treated in a sp 



employed as a substitute for or in ad. i ibetan pashm in the pro* 



'in, -lion of much of the ptui uuueroe. A more recent and 



e\i a more pcrniciouH practice in tho use of foreign, mostly English, woollen yarns 

 in tho fiiliric.it ion of Indian textiles, for which Doth the colours and the i\ 

 of tho yarn m un-<. 



Indian Wool. The best wool is that of the Panjab and Fr 

 Province, of which perhaps Hissar wouM uki- the foremost place, but 

 Ferozpur, Lahore, JLang, Shahpur, Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Amritsar, 

 Multan, Rawalpindi and Jhelum each produce wool in fair quantity and 

 quality. In the United Provinces the most useful wool comes from the 

 Himalayan tracts Garhwal, Almora, and Naini Tal while the important 

 districts in the plains are those of Agra and Mirzapur. A large drain is, 

 however, made on the Panjab, Rajputana and Sind, and also on foreign 

 countries, to meet the manufactures of these provinces. The best-known 

 local wools of Western India are the black Deccan and Khandesh and the 

 white wools of Sind, Gujarat, and Kathiawar. Sind and Baluchistan wools 

 are exported from Karachi, along with the fine wool obtained from Bikanir. 

 The rearing of sheep in the Central Provinces is fairly important, especially 

 in Jabbalpur, Nagpur, Chanda, Wardha and Raipur. In Rajputana and 

 Central India, Bikanir, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Ajmir produce wool, and 

 that of Bikanir is much prized all over India, especially for carpet-weaving. 

 In Southern India the wools of Bellary, Karnul, Coimbatore and Mysore 

 are well known ; but the sheep of most other districts of Madras, like those 

 of Bengal, yield hair rather than wool. 



Prices. In an official report from the Director of Land Records and 

 Agriculture in the United Provinces, the following occurs regarding prices. 

 The price depends upon the purity of the wool, but 2J seers per rupee 

 may be assumed as a fair average. Bikanir wool (white) fetches from 

 under Rs. 20 to over Rs. 35 per maund, according to fineness and freedom 

 from burrs. Goats' hair costs 10 to 12 seers per rupee and camels' hair 

 5 seers per rupee. 



INDIAN WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE. 



Mr. J. E. O'Conor (Rev. Trade Ind., 1893, 51) made the somewhat 

 significant comment : " The trade is as yet quite unimportant and is 

 likely to remain so for a long time to come, unless the Indian mills are able 

 to find markets in Asia for coarse blankets and horse-clothing, the only 

 descriptions of goods for which there would be a fair demand in the regions 

 we could hope to supply and the only kinds we could manufacture with 

 profit to compete outside India with European goods." In 1896, however, 

 the imports from Great Britain had fallen off by 9J per cent., while those 

 from Germany had increased sixfold, from France threefold, and from 

 Austria twofold. It had thus almost immediately been demonstrated that 

 the attractively got up cheap shoddy and mixed woollen goods of the 

 Continent of Europe (more especially of Germany) were not only ousting the 

 superior manufactures of England, but had undermined the ground which 



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