Show woold WOOL Import important at Statis statistics tb for shep men cecline IN NUMBER but an ail increase creaso in imports anti and precincts products DECLINE attributed mainly to the low irico price of wool in the west a COU PARISON BRITAIN the wool irnie trade hi has allea fallen off ly by the million by tae nigh tariff tariffs 0 of oder other countries Conn trie leitera Te itera isted press to the HrIt Alm i WOOL C lukuc tit the exports Ez jort and nl productions NOTON oct ocl 20 the report of 1 Si chief ot of sta on wool woul and manufactures of 0 wool is is ready read for distribution there the re port allows that the file number of 0 sheep in in tho the united states haa has increased indrea ed from 13 in 1840 to 01 in 1881 but hag has declined to in issa thia this marled marked decline occurred mainly in he the southern end and western states anti an is attributed to the duhne decline in the price of wool since 1837 1937 great neuin BritA ift eking beins the bead I 1 ing wool im 1 r ket of the th world orld 1 haa w il at been tile prin principal cinal market tor for I 1 I 1 our burch purchases a sea of wool turkey and nu llusia hae bave also been important ime I 1 ourtcea s of direct supply but he tile argentine republic ie Is next to great britain briwn our source of supply is follow ed led by australasian alasia our imports of wool roue rose f from ro in 1 pounds in 1822 1322 to pounds in 1837 the i in n crease in wool imports haa has about opt I pac pace with the gro crowth ali of our wool u ool pi p both haung han ing about doubled oI A series of tables illus aia rate leq the increase in in product ta ani and im importations and relations be benteen bett teen 1 the le two as for example from 1804 1864 to pounds acro ere pro d ITS dui pd d oid rd aj imported from 1874 to 1878 0 were o produced an at d 45 imported from 1882 to ISSO were produced anol anal 12 imported Ini ported froni from 1822 to the tile annual imports ol 01 in ac raKed raged over value or ore than ak 7 cents per pita hile froni front 1832 to 1841 they n ached mur fourteen mil 84 cents per capita the lalue of our woolen product of yas twenty 11 ote 8 million dollers loll 1011 ars in I 1 learld and of our imports incie nineteen n milli ill ln tan both to Aether being about a dohar d ollar and ninety civo cents per capita of 0 ur population kopul stion ii in 1800 ua in in were ere produced and forty three milli lons imported together being about 1261 2 1 per cupita in 1870 1970 the pro product luct re ticked a hundred and ten million dollard dol lArv and the importations ions thirty alve million being 3 78 per capita in ISSO the product prod net had g grown an to hundred and sixty four million illion IT awl imports were ere valued at i thirty ono one millions roil liona bein bains per capita capite thus while our product 0 A woolens hive have increased since 1830 neaily seven foll our imports 11 liae have iacre increased aged about sixty two per ent cent but the consumption on per doubled which tile statistician aas a indicates in in a striking manner the ad d VAn cement nt of and comfort in ol 01 living a among the tile people of of our country statistics afim t imports and export of v woolens in the trade of foreign countries show tint that iho united K higdom is foremost iu in tle foreign trade in wool wools the imi ports gio r ta dunne during 18 IM amounting m ili value va lite to fa and the exports ti 11 15 i france 1 ranie comes conies next gitil ciui i imports 14 ank exports M 7 germany imports and exports al 51 there hit been a lire large delino in the woolen trade of azat britain since 1874 as aa shonn b by the tile exports as follows et ports r from 1870 to 1874 OM jr 1870 to 1334 vaa showing a dealine of ro 9 or thirty I 1 per tent cent between the periods this decline lr line ia is attributed alln buted in n part art to the high foreign tariff c it r tit li shut out the manufacturers of gret britain from the tile foreign markets |