Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1840-11-07
HINTS For WOOL GROWERS AND HOME
SPUN CLOTH MAKERS

n eins ana Cloth Dressing for twenty five wear
:. ,ufh'Shed The editor of the Farmers Month";
20 visitor with the following useful hints:
Y For profitable rearing Of sheep. would selec
. those CT u larger kind. producing heavy fleeces
d mixture of Merno with Irish and South Dow
T. having not o.er half blood Merino
: For common wear, | would have the sbee
t washed clean before shcariug; let the sheen o.
sheared as soon as they drr-sav within tw,
or three days; for if the sheep suffered 10 run
longer after washing. the voc! is not fit to car,
. without further cleansing
! Sort, examine and pick the wool before il !:
sent to the carder. Do this work so ,horouoblv
that there shall not remain beaehnut bur blu rdock
nur, thistle head, nor any other adhering sab.
stance make it perfectly clean as if il was 10
be caroed at home in cotton cards.
llfeled wool should be sheared so as 10 take
me lei oil on preparing 10 card il; picker
can entirely destroy the felt & it Injuries the card
aud causes the rolls TO have small nubs in them
When WOO! Is prepared for coloring, lie, it be
washed or well cleansed before il shall be put in
/ the dye. Let i, also be well cleansed after taking
out Of the dye.
1.-THE wool is intended to be mixed. i, had bot
ter be mixed before il shall be sent to the mill
II ought not 10 60 with the blue dye in it, as some
gpoi ildies sometimes send it 10 be carded for 1t
IS very oifensivc 10 card, to spin keep any
; where about the house in that state
II the wool To be carded is fine it ought not 70
De CREASED before sending il TO mill. Ii the wool
be very fine, II should not be creased at all For
white hinnel II may be oiled with olive oil; for
failed CLOTH with good sperm oil Wool tina, is
creased and lies in the mill two three weeks
in hot weather must be oiled over, or YOU must
have bad rolls.
Every good farmers housewife will learn her.
sell and teach her daughters to prepare wool for
the carding machine. They should be- taught 10
spin and weave. and perform their other domestic
IN innfacturing ms was done forty years ago. On
the knnwlodge OF household manufactures depends
thp i,ct
mus. 60 To the large factories for our cloths and
mach of their cloth is hardly worth making up for
common wear.
C'oih for everyday common wear NAV be made
OF coarse open wool; mix the white in equal paris
with black or blue. Have this mixed wool we'll
cardcd--spnn coarse FIVE skeins to the pound
beat up and wove very stout, and dressed nv !
some good old fashioned clnihier at eight or ten
e~-stsfs--yurs ard $50 ssrs-ssr v~-rsr---A5
king mp. I
Bl, the wool grower perhaps will say, it is a
cheaper 10 buy cloth when wool sells for fifty q
cents per pound; for my wool costs me a dollar or p
more III the yard to make my cloth, and my girls p
vii earn more at the factory. while ] can buy 5
10th a, The store at fifty TO seventy five cents per
Tard. say To you after twenty five years ex- II
'erience in domestic manufactures, that in the r.
leart of wool growing have made from six to u
line hundred yards Of WOODEN cloth every year '
or ten years from wool of my raising: that II
have hired and paid females the rate of one o.
o!lar and City cents per week 10 spin and 10
n the old and boa rded-have made ;'.e bu- p
mess profitable, selling my cloths Boston p.
Or cash. e.
If you would be independent, learn your dangh. n
ers 10 spin and weave; although they may not
eem 10 much for season,i is much better al
Or them than to be at factory, where they lose u
r gain the art Of domestic manufacturing IL
nd housewfery, to the grea, injury of society, Oh
nd frequently to the loss Of their health, aud al
ometimes of their lives. u
If each farmers wife and grown daughter will 9
,ake for themselves a good WOODEN gown-,he 10
ner and more ingenousy spun and wove the u
1ore TO her credit-for winter wear, in lieu of
ny ing some foreign manufacture at the store; it pr
viii contribute both in the making and wearing ~
o the health, comfort and best interest Of each. IL
low must every young man prize the 'girl ~
shich he loer bes,' that she is able dress her m
elf with the delicate work of her own fingers Al
Salisbury. July 10, 1910. ~
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