Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The Saxon Merino is found by farmers, even in Saxony, to be so unprofitable, that the numbers kept are being gradually di- minished. Wool Produce of the World.—The following table, com- piled from the most reliable information obtainable, furnishes an approximate estimate of the production of sheep's wool in the principal countries of the world in 1874. Pounds. South America 350j 000.00° Asia, including Russia in Asia . . . 320,000,000 Australia 250,000,000 United Kingdom 200,000,000 United States 200,000,000 France 150,000,000 European Russia 150,000,000 Turkey, European and Asiatic . . . 140,000,000 Spain 62,000,000 Austria 60,000,000 Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium . . 60,000,000 Hungary 45,000,000 North Africa 50,000,000 South Africa 50,000,000 Italy 40,000,000 Persia 40,000,000 Portugal 12,000,000 Canadian Dominion 12,000,000 Sweden and Norway .... 12,000,000 Denmark 10,000,000 Greece 10,000,000 Mexico 500,000 Total . . 2,223,500,000 Statistics of our Wool Imports.—The demands of our Woollen Manufactures require a large and increasing supply of the raw material; of this only a small proportion, estimated at 160,000,000 to 200,000,000 lbs. annually, is produced in the United Kingdom, and hence we are largely dependent on foreign- supplies. Fortunately, the British possessions are increasing their wool production year by year, and rendering us more indepen-