Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-04-26
MONTPELIER, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1914.
AGRICULTURAL.
sUGcEEIoNs TO wooL-cRowER


OCF7Tle Writer of the following is extensively
engaged in the manufacture of wool, and his opin-
ions are entitled to great weight,
Samuel Lawrence, Esq. of Lowell, in letter
written in February last and published in the Gull
tivator, says:-
We paid for full blood Montarco* wool in July
last, Al cents; the heeces averaged Ia lbs, and
lost by securing, A per cent. We bought no full
blood Paular wool.
Query 3D." Have you any reason to suppose
that Saxon sheep are going out of repute 2"
! am well acquainted with great many owners
of Saxon flocks and in no instance do know that
a change IS contemplated; on the contrary, every
thing is dq.rg to make the wool finer. ! believe
that by proper care in crossing the length of sta
pie may be increased without affecting its fneness
This is desderatlm OF great importance to brce
dcrs and should receive their serious consideration.
A few years ago it was thought by manufacturers
that very short stapled wool only would make fine
goods. Now the quality of the staple is looked at
without regard to its length. beg you to give
this matter your best attentions for if s to 10 oun-
ces of wool can be added to every fleece in the
country, it will place both growers of wool and
manufacturers such basis, that no foreign COM
petition could touch them.
The Saxon sheep were carried from Spain and
improved in Germany Why can't the Merinos be
brought up TO the same height in this country? We
have stapled some American woods of great beau
ty, and finer than any Spanish woods that ever
imported into this country.
The best blood Of Saxony sheep is in very high
repute in Europe. 1t is but three years ago that
six hundred dollars each were paid in Germany for
u large number to be carried to Russia. | have
specimens Of the wool. Is there any reason why
we cannot do well by starting with the right
blood?
As to encouragement to the wool growers, in my
opinion, their prospects were never good; and
among other reasons, are frst ma orty of the
people are coming square up to the mark in favor
of protective tariff" and the wool growers have
learnt that MiS kind of tariff, is qlite useful to
them with their three hundred millions in sheep
firms, sheep, &C., as it is to the WOODEN manufac-
turers with their 20 millions in mills, machinery
&c.
| Second. There is infinitely more skill employed
in the working Of woods, and more talent and char
actcr in the general management Of the WOODEN bu
sincss than at any former period
Third. a number of new branches have lately
been undertaken with entire success. The making
Of mouslin de LANES has been commenced also un
3 der the most favorable auspices and lasI, though
least, the horde of drab gathered gentry" from
Yorlshire,f which infested the city Of New Yorl
for so many years, has been broken up and driver
from our shores
The adrance in the prices Of all kinds of tCoO
,cW be fully Susi1inrd. The article has been de
pressed below It's value all over the world for three
years past; but it has now turned, and considera
bic advance has taken place in Europe; tn
next German fairs will show more animation il
the demand than has been seen for large time.
A correspondent of the Cultivator says that h
has travelled extensively in % States of Union, an
he has nowhere seen sheep that produce as muc
wool of the same quality, with the same expense G
= keeping, as some iocks in Vermont.