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Tf^ool in Relation to Science with Practice. 
ill the supply, and all will benefit by the free importation and 
f ree interchange of the numerous descriptions of wool. 
" 1 base the following; estimate (Table VIII.) on the numbers of 
sheep s^iven in the 'Agricultural Returns' for 1869, though the esti- 
mate will readily be understood to be merely an approximation." 
TABLE VII. 
ExrouTS OF Wool and Woollen Manufactures, Yarn, &c. 
1874. 
1873. 
Average ' 
1869-1873. 
.Kxports of Domestic Wool — 
£ 
3,016,955 
1,359,484 
3,077,167 
930,733 
£ 
2,803.794 
1,195,313 
1,322,509 
820,974 
£ 
1,994,054 
1,445,831 
2,636,361 
2,370,076 
'I'otal Exports of Domestic Wool 
Total Exports of Woolleu and Worsted "1 
Total Imports 
Excess of Exports over Imports 
Total Exports of Woollen and Worsted ) 
Excess of Exports over Imports 
I'^xports of Woollen and Worsted 
M;inufHctures and Yarns — 
, , United States 
1,662,994 
892,145 
1,175,437 
10,047,333 
7,034,735 
9,021,759 
22,794,977 
4,022,669 
25,349,878 
3,840,096 
25,849,944 
3,720,481 
18,772,308 
21,509,782 
22,129,403 
5,558,963 
1,492,715 
5,393,493 
1,495,343 
5,627,380 
1,433,320 
4,006,248 
3,898,150 4,194,060 
008,771 
4,095,478 
6,482,465 
3,. 587. 763 
5,945,818 
9,000,321 
3,242,005 
5,320,567 
ill now taking leave of the statistical branch of my subject, 
1 cannot too strongly enforce this consideration, that if it is 
desired to forecast the future, we must diligently study the ten-^ 
dencies of the familiar lines in which the past has run, and then, 
with the necessary deviations, let imagination boldly project these 
lines into unknown space. 
The Flocks of the World. — I am now to make a rapid practical 
tour of the wool-growing districts — the sheep-Avalks of the world. 
Leaving Iceland, where crossing with Englisli sheep has done 
much, I traverse the Atlantic to scamper round the Am<^ricas : 
ill Canada I find neglected Leicesters and a want of new blood : 
ill California they say they can raise any breed, but now produce 
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