Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-05-26
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Cloth .Making.-To make good Cloth, far
mers should be more attentive to their Sheep,
and not sell the best and finest lambs. Sheep
should never be yarded with cattle; they should
be Kept in good Aesh, that the wool may be
lively, and fed in a rack so constructed that the
seed and chaF cannot fall from the hay into the
wool, for these essentially injure 1T. and makes
il very troublesome to the manufacturer The
season is now at hand when the Sheep should
be freed from their warm coats-a few days
before the Sheep are washed, all the tag locks
adhering to their tail and breech, should be
carefully cut of, so that the fleece may wash
the cleaner on the Sleeps back they should
then be taken into a stream of running water
and there well and carefully washed-they must
then be turned on a clean grassy field for at
beast three or four days in order that the wool
may dry, and the animate oil penetrate its pores
again; his oil keeps the wool alive and pre-
serves its pliabiIity. Suitable attention has not
been paid to the sorting Of wod-the fleece
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fine to coarse, If this is not attended to, the
cloth is very apt to pucker in fulling- all coarse
and dead ends of the wool should be cut of, if
they are spun and wove into cloth, they will
make it spotted, as the coarse and dead will
not take the colour equal to the good wool-
The wool must be well caried and tho spinning
of the yarn Outlined to one person who viii
spin an even thread and give an equal twis, or
the warp might be spun by one person and the
filling by another; different spinners make DIFF.
ferent kinds of yarn, which will make Cloth
work badly, it should be spun to an even good
thread. the filing something coarser tAan the
chain, and much Stacker twisted, hard twisted
filling makes the Cloth pucker in fulling; there
should be one third, or at least one four h more
filling than chain, by weight; the weaver should
SO suit the chain as to admit all the filing, and
weave it as close and even as possible; uneven
weaving makes the Cloth pucker in fuillng; in
order to weave the Cloth close enough, the
filling should be wove in welt, or at least moist,
for dry filling wove into a hard sized chain can
never make good Cloth, particularly if the fill
ing be hard twisted; carefully keep it clean
from cotton and linen threads and lint; make
as few knots as possible and trim as you weave;
If I'll the knots are not carefully cut OIL before
the Cloth is fulled, they are afterwards liable
to he cut off IN shearing the Cloth, which is
apt to make small holes in and iniure it. The
weaving Of wooilen Cloth is generally perform
ed too carelessly and indiffefently, and il the
Cloth does not meet the expectation Of the ow-
ner, the faalt is generally attributed 10 the clo-
thier; when Cloth is made in conformity to these
directions there is no danger of its working
badly in the mill, but if q number of hands be
employed in spinning a piece. and especially
hthe filling be hard twisted you may expect the
Cloth win pucker in the mill, and such can ne.
Yer be dressed to ap pear even decently: some
people. who proceed in this manner, complain
of the fuller, because their Cloth does not look
as Others that had no better wool, but they
may rely on it, that the fault hes in the spinning
and Weaving. People would do well to make
Their Cloth earlier in the season than usual; it
As better to full and dIess Cloth in the warm
weather Than in cold. S.
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Although the grand. Canal ii New-York is not
completed, there is a complete water commu.
H''a'''n from the City to Lake Erie with the
exception OF fac miles.