THE WOOL CHIP OF THE WORLD.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1979, 28 June 1880, Page 3

THE WOOL CHIP OF THE WORLD.

It needs not to say that sheep aro an important factor in the profits and comforts of tho inhabitants of tho world. A writer with statistical predilections writes —“The capital employed in feeding and clothing the civilised world is amazing. It is estimated that there are from 484,000,000 to 600,000,0 W sheep in the world, or, at the lowest estimate, over 320,833 miles of sheep, it strung along, one closely following the other —or nearly enough to encircle the earth thirteen times. Of these, the United States have 35,000,000— that is, nearly enough to make a nolid column of sheep, eight in row, from New York to Ban Francisco. Great Britain has about the same number of sheep as the United States, and her wool-clip increased from 94,000,0001 bin 1801 to 325,000,000 in 1875. France and Austria produce about as much, but the United States product is only about 300,000,0001 b not two-thirds of that ot Great Britain. The great sheep-breeding countries of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the River Plato brought the total wool clip of the world last year up to 1.497,500,0001 b, worth, at a low estimate, £300,000,000.