The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-05-04

years, enhancing materially the price OF Penn
sylvania sheep, and producing for them sud
denly an active demand. In these cases, il j:
true, the condition Of the fleece and the quail.
ny of the wool was carefully attended TO in
sorting; had 1t been otherwise the partie:
would have felt as severely and as unneces-
sarily the consequence of glutted and de-
preciated market as did their neighbors, who
were less discreet or less fortunate, as the
case may be.
More than this, manufacturers are now
saying that wool must again recede in price,
notwithstanding which many Of them are
making inquiries for fine wool from those
very agents whom they are instructing to
buy at prices reduced from last year.
There can be no doubt then that The market
Tor fine wool is not yet Overstocked. Those
growers of fine wool sho have been lead by
bitter experience to different conclusions,
would do well 10 inquire whether their losses
are not rather attributable TO the mode 10
which their clips were sold, than 10 the mar
ket in which it was sold. and direct their eff
forts rather to remedying the palpabIe alb
surdities Of the wool trade, than TO irretreiv-
ably destroying The character of their hocks.
1t is certain that the price for medium wool
has been enhanced by the quiet submission
Of the grower of fine wool TO the dictation of
The wool Spectator. His object is TO buy
wool without regard TO quality, as cheap as
possible, and if he can bring fine aud medium
wool to nearly the same standard, he is gain
er even though he pays little more for me-
dunn wool than he otherwise would, TO ac-
| complish his purpose-for he saves largely
on the price Of fine wool, which he thus de-
preciates. To the farmer this is not very
apparent. but IS well understood by the sta
pier. In stspling wool he makes ten sorts,
TO each of which a price is affixed. In the
three or four lower numbers the difference in
price between any one number and one next
above is barely three Of four cents-but in the
three or four higher numbers Of the scale, the
difference is ten cents, and with some it is as
high as fifteen cent?.
Nor is this ala difference Of few ceuts
per pound is made by the manufacturer be-
tween lots Of wool, according to the rate, 4
may so speak, of the stapling. One lot Of
wool, upon stapling, yields an unusual guam
tity which runs into the higher numbers oil
the stapler's scale, and little or none in the
lowest number Of the scale. In another lot
of apparently equal value, this may be exact
ly reversed, aud it would be appraised by the
same manufacturers at several cents less per
pound than the former. although the great
bulk Of both lots run through precisely the
same intermediate numbers.
1t so happens, therefore, in vast number
Of cases, that where the wool buyer makes
little or no difference between clips Of wool,
| the manufacturer makes difference amount
| ing to one fourth, and one third, Of the cost
! of wool. II would not, theI efore, be hazard
ing too much TO say. that the clips Of fine
wool have hitherto tended to preserve the
/ tone Of the wool market to the manifest inju-
ry of the fine wool growers.
Thus much as 10 the present state Of our
! fine wool market. But what are the pros
poets for the future. The flocks Of fne wool
are not probably largely Oh the increase; ye,
it is probable that changes are being made in
| the machinery of the wooden factories that
will ultimately require an increased supply OF
| fine wool. Manufacturers have prospered
during the last few years, and the accumula
lion Of capital which results from prosperity,
necessarily tends to those alterations and i'm
provements in machinery which enable the
manufacturer of wooden fabrics TO produce
articles Of superior style and flush, which
must tend TO an increased consumption OF
| fine wool.
| Ii is we'll known that the generality Of dra-
pers prefer foreign broadclOtbs 10 those OF A
merican Workmanship. Yet the course OF
improvement is onward. and fabrics every
way equal TO the foreign will in the end be
produced. Indeed instances are not wanting
to show that foreign broadcloths have been
so successfully initiated as TO deceive even the
agent Of the foreign manufacturer. Success
10 one case tends to the renewal Of the al
tempt by others. 1t is safe, therefore, TO con-
cude, that the market for fine wool is s,eadi-
~ and constantly enlsrging.
! Again, it is not too much 10 say, that far
mers residing on the high priced lands Of this
state, who grow that kind Of wool which can
be raised by anybody aud by any means. are
doomed 10 feel competition that will compel
Them materially to lower their demands. A
gentleman upon whom l can place reliance,
assures me that men who have been several
years resident in Brazil. are now selecting
sites in the far est, where wool can be rails
ed wholly by pasturing, and with no addi-
tIonal expense beyond that Of the shepard aud
his dog, and who will ultimately pour into
the market immense quantities OF low priced
wool. which, while it will compete with our
medium woods, cannot for long time mate
rally affect that kind Of wool which can only
be produced by close attention and care.
| Besides il would seem certain that sooner or
later wool must be exported from this coun-
try. Ii this is so, while one can easily lmag-
| ine that the n. Y. farmer may be able TO
compete with the European grower Of fine
wool who is not burihened with his rents and
heavy taxes; it is not so easy TO see how he
eau compete with those who grow an inferior
wool on cheap lands, and wiih little COST
The period for exporting wool may be nearer
at hand than most of us imagine. | am sat-
shed from inquiries, that under the present
system wool is received into the siaPling
room of the manufacturer at an advance OF
at leas, five cents per pound. upon the price
received for it by the farmer. VIII II cost
much more than this TO place it in the hands
of the foreign manufacturer Ereliance can
be placed upon information said to be accur-
ate, probably not The freight of wool from
New y ork to Boston is within fraction OF
cent of its freight to Europe, and if fleece
woofis properly put up, and properly sorted.
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