Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-06-11

or 40 ccrIts per h. American wool worm %
cents per ID. will shrink about one-thlrd IN It's
preparation for cloth, and therefore cost when in
cloth about 43 or A cents per ID. 1t is, there
fore, apparent that this filthy, foreign WOOL last
year, had a material influence in ruling the
market price of American wool OF medium
quality.
Tag-locks, filth and twine cannot enhance the
value of any portion of the wool in market; nor
ought a system to be longer tolerated that makes
little or no difference in the price of wool thus
basely contaminated and wool wholly free from
censurable impurities. Look at the consequent
ces: the price obtained may adequately remu-
ncrato the grower of the one, while to the grow
or Of the other, it is utterly ruinous.
The one Keeps his small flock poorly and
cheaply by the roadside or on the refuse of his
farm, while the flock of the other consumes the
entire or chief product of the farm. and the wool
1t yields is the only or main crop that its owner
carries to market. To each therefore the same
price will not bring the same returns. The one
may and will probably continue to raise wool in
his small way without any material change in
, its condition, whatever may be the result of any
effort to alter the absurd practices of the wool
trade. But the other cannot and will not long
persevcre as wool-grower, unless there is an
alteration and if the present sheep-walks are
in consequence turned into ploughed fields, the
ordinary farmer will in his turn experience the
ruinous consequences of ncglecting studously
to foster such modes of marketing wool as will
secure to each shepherd an exact recompense
for his skill and care. 1t may be possible for
the agricultural products Of the country to sink
still lower in value than they now are. Perhaps
there is margin enough for great depreciation
in prices; but it will sooner or later become me-
ccssary for the manufacturer to inquire whether
his interests will be promoted or prciudiced, by
having the farmers of the United States become
merely peasants. MAY he not so depreciate the
value of wool that he will ultimately injure
himself
Until the letter of Mr.. Gay, nothing has ever
before been said that am aware of, about the
necessity of sorting 1ceccs for market. Accor-
ding to Mr.. Gay, wool destined to European
markets must be sorted, else the fullest advan-
tage will not be realized from the venture. Nor
is it less certain. that an unnecessary loss Is
annually submitted to by the neglect or rather
BY the impossbtv, under the present system,
Of doing the same thing with flecces destined tor
home consumption. The necessity of sorting
in the one case springs out of the division of
manufacturing labor. The division of labor il
is true is not carried as far with with for
eigncrs it nevertheless exists to great extent
| is daily becoming more perfect. and from the
necessity of the case, must ultimately be as
complete here As elsewhere. But even as things
now are, it is not difficult to show that the sort
ing of fecce-wool is requisite to prevent an 9TH
crwise unnecessary loss to the wool growers.
descrin;on Of wool only at az cents per H.. be-.
c,uso il il unsu;,od ~ the;r STYLE Of GOODS ..
vh;Io ,ho ,,or,, sa,,o ,,nol i ,,,roJ in another
G,c,orv At a. cents nor III for the onnosite rea.
SON
4 uero il tho cv;de,co in ono c,se at lea St that
!, this coun,rv a. in Enrl,,d the m,unfac
turer undertakes the wool BROUGHT TO his fac
tory FOR Gale.
i Again. the Mousselin de Lainc ma nufacturers
in some instances use wool of precisely the same
. market value with the satinet maker. But the
style of the wool is different the staple of the
one being longer than that of the other
; The interest of 10th would be promoted by
sorting wool, not only as to its quality and the
, condition of the fleece but also AS TO STYLE and
undoubtedly both would be willing to pav triilc
f more per ib.-a tri,le it is true-but success
, often iepends upon triHes.
The staplsrs of satnet factories and other
manufacturers of coarse fabrics, frequently col
lect larre stocks of wool of a quality used only
BY the manufacturers of broadcloths. Yet for
the suneror wool no more has been maid nv the
satnet makers than for that of inferior quality.
which il n,rfac,Iv VOL ,d,nted n his nnrnose
b,ro hotnro mo Tho ovJonro Of ono ca.e ,hero
nave oc'''e "e ''o e''ue''ou VI o''o 'aS C. "u1'c
an advance OF ~ cents per To- was ootalnea oy
i"'a"'a.tu'e' VI s''''e's' ,o' "'o' W i"'"'y
700 gooa LOT ms Pur pose' 90 aiso o''e '''hc's
ot lhousse"h ae ia'''es purc'ae 'arse ,l"an''''es
" won, III o'u1' " 500 I'o !. on,l ''at
has s"inc'en' is"sth ., Sl"P'e " SUIT t''c'' P'-
pose; the residue Is disposed oil TO o'herS, "a
company can be named VINO annually use ~
ooo lo, VI hio'9s I'M ce i'"e "oo a'iu ye' o"y
, 5ou,ooo IDS u selec' from
lhose manufacturers tlitt require tie pest ana