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DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE YEAR 1847.

Summary statement of the value of the Exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, during the year commencing on the 1st day of July, 1846, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1847.

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IN noticing the great increase in the production of wool in the State of Michigan, we are naturally led to inquire, why it is that the Lake region is so rapidly outstripping the Valley of the Mississippi in this branch of husbandry. We have doubtless a climate altogether as favorable for sheep, as that of Michigan; and when we reflect that every product of the field is cheaper here than in the vicinity of the Lakes, and that extensive districts in Missouri, especially, are so remote from market that scarcely any kind of grain will bear transportation, we are at a loss to perceive the reason that wool growing has been so much neglected by our farmers. We should feel ourselves under an obligation to any experienced farmer of the west who will favor us with facts upon this subject.

By reference to the imports into St. Louis for the four years ending the 31st of December, 1847, we find the quantity of wool received reported as follows: 1,377 bales in 1844; 1,899 bales in 1845; 1,903 bales in 1846, and 2,107 bales in 1847The following statement from the Detroit Free Press, shows the quantity of wool exported from Michigan in 1841 and for four years ending with 1847:

"The shearing season is now near at hand in this State, and a short review of the past may not be uninteresting. Our surplus is augmenting. There was shipped from the State in

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We have taken some pains to ascertain the quantity exported from each port to the 31st of December. We here give it:

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In the Free Press of July 5th last, we estimated the crop of the State at 1,600,000 lbs., and put down for home consumption 500,000 lbs.; surplus for export 1,100,000 lbs.

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The returns of exports from the custom-house here, and shipments at Toledo, up to this time, make the amount less than 5,000 lbs. of our estimate.

"The great number of sheep that have been driven into the State the past season, and the natural increase, will probably give us a surplus of 1,600,000 lbs. the present season."

BANK REPORT.

Aggregate State of the Bank of the State of Missouri, and its Branches, on the 30th June, 1848.

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State of the Bank of the State of Missouri, on the 30th June, 1848.

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State of the Branch of the Bank of the State of Missouri, at Fayette, on the 30th

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