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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP IX. 37 Year of Return. No. of Sheep. Spain 1865 22,054,967 Portugal ......... 1870 2,706,777 Total Europe (excluding Turkey and Greece), about . . 190,000,000 Australasia ........ 1875 62,000,000 Cape Estimate 16,000,000 Mexico “ 16,000,000 River Plate 60,000,000 North America 50,000,000 Remainder of America ......“ 6,000,000 Total 384,000,000 Turkey, North Africa, Persia, etc., say ... 65,000,000 India and China, say 35* 000 * 000 Grand Total ........ 484,000,000 CONSUMPTION OF WOOL. It will be observed that in the following tables the production and consumption of the United States are included in that of North America. In order to bring our own consumption into more distinct relief, the writer has requested Mr. George W. Bond to estimate the consumption of wool per capita in the United States, as compared with that of Great Britain, and has been favored with a reply. Deeming it unnecessary to confuse the reader with a statement of the complicated calculations by which Mr. Bond formed his estimate, we give simply the results. Of domestic wool and that imported, either in the form of wool or fabrics, the average consumption of the people of Great Britain is set down at three and two-thirds pounds of clean wool per person. The consumption of clean wool in the United States is set down at four and a third pounds per head. Although the tables which follow may surprise enthusiasts, by showing how gradually the consumption of the raw material of the wool-manufacture of the civilized nations increases, it being at the rate of but about 2 per cent, for each year of this last decade, they show progress and stability of progress. They show that wool is holding, and likely to hold, its place among the few great national staples which make up the bulk of commercial commodities; and that a great step towards commer cial and industrial independence is made by the nation which has planted a prosperous sheep-husbandry upon her soil.