The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-07-29
What shall | do with my wool!

This is becoming home question to the farmers
Of this State. They have some two years clips OH
hand, npon the sale Of which, many of them de-
pended for the means TO NEE, their ordinary cxpcn.
scs They can get twenty-five or three cents Of
fered for it. Some, twenty eight But they can
not afford to sell it at tha, rate. Many, indeed,
forced by want of money, which they must obtain,
have been compelled 10 part with it n, these ruin
Gus prices, while those who are able to keep i, on
hand do so at dead loss, of the interest of then
money.
Why Is this The question is easily answered.
The markets are glutlcd with foreign wool (which
the wing Tariff allows to come in duty free.
Much of South America is very favorable 10
sheep hushandry. One hundred sheep may be
raised there as cheap and easy as ten 10 New Ing
land. They may Craze the year round in cheap
pastures and are consequently less subject to dis
eases and seldom die excep, from severe storms
and old age Apare Of these facts, eatcrprisipg
men from Nep England and other parts of The
~orid, haze gone TO South .4meriea. and engaged
largely in wooi-growiag, and who, by judicous
crossings, have produced the finest wool.
The editor of the Boston Cuhiraior, (agricul-
,uraD says
We have before MS now on our mblcsiy kinds of
yool imporied duly free from South America,
furnished US as samples by one of the aigcs, i'm.
porters IN the United States. which actually cost
in South America from l-2 TO less than 8 cts per
pound, and therefore all admitted duty free
The LIST kind Is long coarse wool about Z inch
cs IN length, and about as fine as the wool of our
coarse wool sheep, and such as is manufactured
into carpets, wOrsied, coarse blankets and negro
clolhs-and comes in direct competition in our
market with the wool Of our Blackwell and other
coarse onged wooded sheep. This sample is very
white and clean and may be afforded for ~ ~
to l6 cents per pound.
The I'd kind is coarse wool Of finer grade, all
rs good as the wool of the best Of our old fashion,
ed common sheep, and is admirably adapted for
middle grade of Satineits, course woolIens and
common blankets. 1900 bales Of this wool were
imported into the port Of Boston, last week, duty
free. u this wool be sold at one shilling per pound
It viii afford the importer over one hundred per
cent. profit. This wool by comparison is full os
fine as the wool we took from half DishIey and
hall IRISH cosset eve, but not quite so long, and
may be made as white as the driven snow, by
washed alone, as we know by actual experiment.
The Sd is full as fine as our best half bloodcd
merino wool, and may be cleaned as the importer
told us, from l-2 TO cents per pound either by
hand or machinery. This wool is good enough for
the second grade Of broadcloihs, cassImcres' fan.
ncls, and the first class Of satinetts, and may be
imported so that il shall not cost the manufacturer.
when perfectly cleaned. twenty cents per pound.
The 4ih, same grade, full Of buIrs and may be
cleaned tor two cents per pound and may be pur-
chased abroad at the lowest rate above stated.
The 9TH is a sample of wool of about the same
grade as the above, short and fine, cleansed in
South America, very white and clean. We were
surprised when the importer assured Us. that This
very wool uas imported duty free, and cos, in
South America, positively less than eight cents
per lb.
The 9th Is very similar 10 pure merinc wool and
the sample which we have washed in no, ,o,n
suds, has become beautifully white and clean
Thin wool compares well with somr samples We