It went down because the conditions of the country are putting everything down. because everything which the farmer raises is lower now than it was three years ago. It went down because there had sprung up a competition in wool which this country had never been called upon to meet before. Within the last four or five years there has been built up an Asiatic trade in .wool. Twentyfive million pounds a year have been coming to us. and coming more than at that rate this year. When the year shall close you will find it more than 25.000.000 pounds.