WOOL PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD. 



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then may the ignorance or carelessness of the shepherd or the 

 wool-grower, work to the possible benefit to the world through 

 this industry, by reducing the value of a staple upon which so 

 much of the labor of mankind is expended. 



The wool production of the whole world is estimated by Mr. H. 

 C. Carey, at 1,800,000,000 Ibs. This estimate is rendered proba- 

 ble by comparison with the estimates of the production of those 

 countries of which we have more or less accurate knowledge 

 through official reports. An estimate of the number of sheep and 

 pounds of wool produced in the following countries in 1866, 

 made by the London Statistical Society, and published in their 

 journal, here reproduced. To this is added in the last column 

 the number of sheep mentioned as existing in those countries 

 in the official reports ef their governments published since that 

 date : 



TABLE OF SHEEP AND WOOL PRODUCTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING 

 COUNTRIES IN 1866. 



It will be noticed that this list is unfortunately very imperfect, 

 and that those countries only are mentioned whose product enters 

 into commerce, and which is published in government reports, and 

 is therefore more easily figured up by the statistician than that of 

 such countries as the states of Northern Africa, Asia, and South 



