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Title: Animal products;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Simmonds, Peter Lund, 1814-1897. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animal products. (from old catalog) Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Pub. by Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ter on agriculture, Fitzherbert,.that sheepe is the most profytablest cattell a man can have. Previous to the year 1833 the only sheep, with few exceptions^found in South Africa, were the broad-tailed, coarse-woolleclanimal. But in that year a few Merino sheep were brought overfrom Australia by a trading vessel, and were found much superiorto the fat tails, and admirably suited to the country. Now thepure Merino, Cheviot, Escurial, and other esteemed breeds, arecommonly to be seen in all parts of the South African colonies.The proportion of improved sheep to coarse-woolled in the CapeColony in 1875 was as follows : 10,064,289 fine-woolled to>944,050 common or coarse-woolled. The Woollen Manufacture.—Wool is the second greattextile industry of this country. There are more than a quarter ofa million operatives engaged upon it in 2,500 factories ; while thetotal number of persons directly dependent upon the trade maybe set down (including the factory hands) at fully 1,000,000, there
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24 THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE. being a larger number of dependent workers in auxiliary trades thanin connection with any other British manufacture. We imported of Foreign Wool in 1874Of Alpaca and Mohair ....Woollen rags to be used as Wool.Woollen Yarn for WeavingOur home supply of Wool is estimated atThe Skin Wool from imported sheep at . Making a total of lbs. 338,800,48112,200,087 57,361,92013,114,130 160,000,0002,400,000 583,876,618 For the wool imported we paid more than,£24,000,000 sterling.As we re-exported only 55,300,000 lbs. of wool and woollenyarn, nearly 530,000,000 lbs. of wool were worked up. It isestimated that we use at home three-fourths of the whole manu-factures ; therefore, as our exports of woollen and worsted manu-factures and yarn in 1874 were of the value of over ,£28,000,000,this would bring up the aggregate value of the woollen manufac.ture to over £100,000,000, but even if we assume it at £ 7 5,000,000it shows the importance of this great industry. The cons

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