The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-07-29


others of the western part of this State. So fine
was this wool That when compared with Mr. Bates
wool we were Enabled In decide which was the
finest, and so we called in third person, who de-
clared Mr. Bates little the finest, but the differ
cnce was triling This wool lcaS imported duty
Free
The long coarse wool which we described, last
week, rs competing with our Blackwell and Dish
ley was imported from Bucnos Ayres, and very
similar to the Rio Grandc and Moneviedo WOOL
These wool 5 were sold in New York duing the
last month, as lollows:-
Buenos Ayros, picked and washed for IL ga
cents per lb,-- unwashed for 3 Ia cents-Rio
Glande. picked and washed, for III 81 cents and
Montevicdo, washed and clean for 10 IL cents
Nlerno and Mestgo selected feeces, clean, sold
for 8 IL cents per ID.
Under this state of things cannot the farmers
see that it is impossible for them to hope for any
thing like fair prices for their wool, The Hon.
Isaac C. Bates wool, being the clip of 1871, is
now stored and unsold in the city of Boston, and
if we are correctly informed cannot now command
an offer of one half so much as sold for four or
five years ago, so great has been the improvement
and increase of South American wool, and the IA
cililies for cleaning it,
But, were South American Wool all with which
our oo-growers have to contend they might well
be alarmed, but what must eventually be their
condition, if not only all kinds of South American
wool's are to be admitted duty free, or with 20
per cent. ad vaorem duty, but all the woods from
places bordering on the Bay of Bengal the 'Arohi-
bn,I, 4, or,,., a.
mean and other places too numerous to mention,
hundreds and hundreds of tons of which wool are
now to be seen in our principal cities, in stores
literally crammcd to the attic with these very dutv
free uoolS For description Of few kinds we
will here refer TO the Culicutor.
lst Smyrna wool---4 samples, little finer ,shor-
ter and cleaner than Buenos Ayres when unwnsh-
ed and picked We should Judge that this wool
would DO used for the same purposes ns the wool
oil our common and Blackwell sheep. One speci-
men Is finer and better, and always is imported
duty free by the present tariff
2nd, Nlogadore wool, from the wcstcr par, of
Morocco, Is finer than the best specimen of the
Symrna wool, completes with the hes, of our COM
mon WOOL and the coarse wool from half and one
quarter blood Merinos. There is readish ap-
pcnance about this wool, produced by the African
sands, which Is easily washed out There can be
but little waste to this wool-much less than in the
unwashed South American wool.
Sd, Dcngazl wo0l-s very similar to the last,
rather finer and shorter, and is grown in the north
of Africa, probably in Barcn aud Tripol
The several specimens of African wool which
we have on our table, are pretty much alike, none
inferior o,bn. rather better than our corlmoh wool
Hoo, 81. IL.
sand of which we have spoken-may be cleans
ed by washing, and fit to be made into flanncs,
coarse Woocns, Blankets and Satincs.
ilh, Crinca wool grown in the South of Rus
sin, and imported from Crinea on the north side
of the Black Sea is coarse, poor stuff, so far rs
we have been able to obtain specimens, and TO our
knowledge cannot be said TO compete directly with
any kind of wool commonly grown in the L. :.
9th, Calcutta wool--grOwn in llindoslan, is IL
bout AS coarse us the Cgmca, but rather shorter
These alc the only kinds of imported woods which
we have seen that cannot be grown in the United
States, and against which our wool growers do no,
demand II positive protection by at least duty of
fifty per cent. on foreign invoice.
The NIcsgo was the finest kind we spoke ofIast
week. aud is from nocks improved by cross with
the Alerno or SaXony sheep. Superiinc NleIno
South American wool, oil selected feeccs almost
entirely free from dirt sold for thirteen cents per
ID. nj The same sale, which took place on the 18Th
of last month. This wool was fairly imported d.
~ free. Now we ask any candid man il Oui far
mers must not Immediately abandoned sheep hus-
bnndly, when all kinds Of wool, from the super
fine selected Nlcrlno, including all the intermediate
grades down TO the coarscst Bnenos Ayres wool,
can be imported and sold in the greatest market in
the United States for prices ranging from l-2 cts.
A. :, i.
been informed, by an extensive importer of these
very woods (who has several correspondents in
South America engaged in the wool growing, and
whose statement is based on their opinion,) that
100 sheep in South America can be raised as cheap
IA ten in New England, than they may ms well sell
their superine Nlerlno there for cents per ID. as
we ours for 40 cents.
BY this it will be seen thai it is entirely out of
the question for our farmers to live n moment if
the policy of the wings be carried out. Our far
mcrs say that nothing less than 10 cents per pound
will afford them fair compensation for their wool.
What, then, can they expect If, selected Gceces of
supeVne .Nerino wOol can be imported into his
country and sold for THIRTEEN CENTS
per ponDa VIVA, can they expect but that their
wool will be rs it now is always on their hands
VIII the manufacturers buy then wool and pay over
twenty-five cents for it, when they can purchase as
good for thirteen. We have the matter brought to
our own door. Tons Of foreign wool have already
been imported into Vermont, at an average cost of
TWENTY-slX CENTS per pound. So long as
any policy allows such state Of things, tho far
mers ask how shall sell my wool, and echo will
answer, how shall Il