Productions And Imports Of Wool

In answer to j'. l":. S.. of 7.;insing : A. I!., oí Ann Arbor aüd W. K., oí Jaekson, re glvé figures showing the impotts oí wool and shoddy the past year, and for 1892 : ateo the aumber oí sheep in liie Dnlted States iu 1801 and is;;f. and the average weight of fïeeces in the la tier year. The number oï s.heep, as reported by the O. s. Statfetielan In the years named, was ais iol'.ows : 1891. _ ... - _ 48.431,136 1892. 44,9S8,S65 1)3. -- 47,293.558 The averag weight oí fleeces for the United States ató a whoie is glven at 6:38 Ihs.; and the entire wóol clip of JL893 ;is estimasted by the National As; orianion of Wool Manufacturera, is as Ad'.ows : Pounda. Wool clip 301,5 Pulled wool, 17,1100,1)00 Total, 3S4, Tliis is the largest production of wiwi in any one year n fchis country. As ahowing the vaxiationa in the clip tor a serles of years we take the followimg llgures frojn the same repo . the ::i lonnts incluöing fleece and j.u ! li'.l wool.s : Founds. 18S6 32,Qi,026 1XS7 - 8 2,1(39.950 -■- 301.S70.lal j lftóit 295,779,479 3U9,474,856 lil 307,401,507 1 383,018405 JhiC 38,58SJ 18 Ii is no t at all likely that the elip of 1894 wiU be within several million pounds as large as that of 1803, but the pulled wool iroan the immense number oï sheep slaughter.ed this winter will go a considerable way in keeping up 'the tötaU One of the corresppoidents referi'ed to above eeode a clipplng froan a siate paper, credited to the Philadelphia ;-il : "Tbe following official figures of importe oí foreign wool, beginning in 1800, and covering the full time "Í i On oï thvj McKinJiéy tarif, are or genenal hiierest. Pounds. 18:)0 105,431,285 1.-.JI 12!),8Ui),bi8 18 2 148,670,652 Ib93 . „ 172,433338 "The duties collected 0:1 wool entered for eonsumption in 1893 were $8,147,220. oí). The stèady inerease in the nnportations oí loreign wooli notwithstanding heavy protective duLl . ough.1 fco open the eycs of wool growera. In 1884 tanpofts "ere 78,350,051 poundfi. A jump oí nearly 100,000,000 pounds in nine years is impressive." Il the Record is responsibl-e for the above figures, il is very badly informed. Aceording 10 the figures of the U. S. Treasury Department, the importe for the yeur 1893 were only 111,751,348 11. , or about 0,000,000 lbs. more tlian in 1890, while the diomestic product has increased about 40,000,000 lbs. l'.ul tln-ii is 111 important fact connecfeed with t!ie importa 1 ion of wool which is forgotten or ovcrlookcd by many. It is the quanvity of rags, s!mí(,v mungo, Avas '(.■-.■! .. every poumd o! which d:splaces a. poun-d oï scoured wool. In 1891 the JIcKinley tari f went into effect. It places a duty of 30 cents per pound iipon sueh Importa! The !!-;iilt is slioivn in the iollowing figrn-!'- : Pounds. l9n 4,9S5.26li 1892 :;-jl ..,-1; ;893 ;ii i.rs:, As vt ry ï.ouiül oí 1 hei e importe displaecs over two pounds of home grown wool, the ianport for 1890 would take the place of over 10,000000 lbs.. while in 189:'. the imports would only displace about 500,000 lbs. Auother point should be remembered in confiiderlng the Lmportationa of wool. There are three classes. Two are used is clotliiiiK ivn )is. and one in the manulacture of carpets. The bulk of the importations are always carpei wools, as vi;l be sin'ii by the fLowtog official í s';i!jiv of the importa of wool in 1892 and ÜS:):', : lbs. lbs. 1892. 1803. Clothinsr wools 57,567,652 34,66259 Caroet wools llu.21W.Si3 77)88,989 Of course the imports of carpet wools do not take the place, except to a litmlted extent, 01 domestic avooIs. It wili be seen froim these figures how very eoon home production would overrak.' coasumplion ii wool-growers feit justified in Lncreasing their fiocks iH'cause the business was likely to