PROGRESS OF WOOL-GROWING IN BUENOS AYRES.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 253, 17 April 1865, Page 3

PROGRESS OF WOOL-GROWING IN BUENOS AYRES.

(From the Brazil and River Plate Mail.) The following statistics, just to hand, will show the progress which lias taken place in the production of woo} in, Buenos Ayres within the last 32 years :

In 1834 the exportation was only 4 hales, in 1840 it had increased to 3577, or 280 per cent; but in the ten succeeding years a most wonderful progress took place, for in 1850 the exportation figured for 17,009 bales, being a further increase of 380 per cent. The exports for subsequent years were as follow ; .

, In explanation of some of the fluctuations exhibited by the above figures, which can be relied upon as being correct, we may state that, the decraase in the exportations in 1857-58 was not the consequence of a falling off in the production of wool, but altogether attributable to the unhappy relations of the country with Europe at that time. The great augmentation shown in the exports of the following year is mainly traceable to the same cause, for the hoardings of the previous wool crop had to be got rid of, immediately business operations were resumed. The total for the two years was 84,225, and crediting one half, or 42,112 to 1858-59, an increase of 11 per cent is manifested, as compared with the exports for 1856-57. The diminution apparent in the exportations for 1859-60 resulted in consequence of the severe epidemic of that year; but the progress of wool growing was only monetarily arrested by this misfortune, for the very next year the exports made a leap upwards of no less than 58 per cent, as shown by the figures. From 1860 to the present year the production of this, important staple—for which Buenos-Ayres is already famous in all the markets of Europe—-has continued to be developed in the most astonishing manner, and although sh ep farmers in, 1864 suffered from epidemic and drought, principally in the- flue pasturages of the south, the-exportations amounted to 91,381 -Ittles,* 'and ssme.accpunts place the figures as high as 100,1)00 bales.

1834-55 ... 27,878 bales 1835-56 ... 32,272 1856-57 ... 37,835 1837-58 ... 34,245 1838-59 ... 49,970 1859-60 ... 38,482 1860-61 '... 60,892 1861-63 ... ... 65,216 1862-63 ... 78,697 1863 61 ... ... 91,381