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APPENDIX D. 



I give these figures for what they are worth. It will be seen that the 

 number of sheep reported hi 1860 bears no correspondence whatever 

 with the product of wool the same year. It assuredly required over 

 twelve millions of sheep, taken as they average, to produce sixty 

 million pounds of wool ; and then the lambs of the year, not sheared, 

 would at least equal six millions more. I have no doubt there were 

 twenty millions of sheep in the United States in 1860, and probably the 

 present number equals twenty-five millions. 



