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PVool iv Relation to Science with Practice. 
The rise and progress of these imports may be gathered from 
the followincr facts. I find the first importation of wool from 
Australia and New Zealand quoted in 
1814 . . . 33,000 lbs. 
1838 . . . 7,837,000 lbs. 
1869 . . . 158,478,000 lbs. 
1838 was the year of the formation of the Royal Agricultural 
Society. In regard to Australian progress, the ' Melbourne Argus' 
has compiled a short statistical account of the Australian colonies, 
made up to the close of the year 1873, showing their relative 
position and aggregate importance. An account of the live 
stock shows that the number of sheep in the colony of Victoria, 
in 1873, was 11,323,080; in New South Wales, 10,928,590; 
in South Australia, 5,617,419; in Tasmania, 1,490,738; in 
Western Australia, 748,536; in Queensland (in 1872), 6,687,907: 
making a total of 45,796,270 in the six colonies. Adding 
9,700,629, the number in New Zealand in February, 1871, we 
have a total of 55,496,899 sheep in Australasia — a number 
larger probably than any other country in the world can 
boast.* 
The ' Times ' of January 4th last contains a letter from its 
correspondent in New South Wales, who says :■ — -" Our pro- 
duction of wool is likely to be much larger proportionally in 
the next twenty years than it has been for the last, as our 
squatters have been expending their energies (and their splendid 
profits for the last three years also) in fencing in their runs, 
securing good blocks of country as freeholds, and building dams 
to secure permanent water. Also there is much more attention 
being paid to ' breed ' than previously, and the squadrons (?) of 
half-wild ' jinnbucks,' with their ragged 2 lb. fleeces, are growing 
into quiet flocks of double the weight and quadruple the 
value." 
Table V. (p. 337) shows the relative values, per lb., of 
home and impcMted wool. It gives the value in pence, per lb., 
of several representative descriptions of wool on ihe 1st of 
January of the past ten years : — 
Table VI. (p. 337), for which I am much indebted, is specially 
prepared by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce to show the 
yearly average price of English wool, per tod, from 1812 to 1873 
inclusive. 
* I sliould not forget McAithur — that national benefactor — that wonderful 
Captain of Infantry — who in 17!'l founded llie sheep husbandry which is the 
source of Australian prosperilv. See his own official statement, ' Bischoff,' vol. i. 
p. 3G6. 
