Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-11-11
FRENCH BUHR MILLsTONEs.

This Is an article of manufacture, which
will serve to illustrate some vieyys we enter
tain, on the subject of home manufactures.
The cost of Bnhr miIstones at the quarries
10 France, is very small. Their great ex-
pense 10 us, is made up chiefly in the cost
Of transportation. Now, if by proper en-
enlargement, the attention of our country
men could be directed to the discovery and
manufacture of prime mllstones, there is no
doubt but that in few months, we should
produce an article quite equal to the French.
The fact is, uuarries Of the real French
Buhr stone, are said 10 be already discoy-
cred in the United States. The only diff
Guilty is to get the manufacture of the art-
Gle commemorative get them into use-to
get their credit up. No man viii venture
now, 10 buy any but French Buhrs for
good grist mill-there is an arbitrary public
opinion of their superiority, which cannot
be broken down easily. At least, no pru-
dent man will invest capital in manufactur-
ing an article which nobody will buy, through
preference. A farmer in this county had
NEW sort Of spring wheat, (hedge row.
which, when made into -four, he could not
sell. He gave bag Of that flour to one of
the Potosi merchants, who tried it and bought
all he could of it after trial, although he had
sworn that spring wheat was fit only for
hogs. Penknives, pins, axes, calcoes, all
American manufactures, have had to en-
counter prejudice almost insurmonntable,
and nothing but the necessity induced by
protection, forced them into use, and made
their superiority acknowledged. Every new
manufacture, has to start with an imitation
of the foreign article and with a foreign
brand. Col JEMEs Nc KISsEY at New
Lisbon, is about completing a superb grist
mill He must buy French Buhr millstones
for il, which il will cost fifty dollars to trans
port from France, even if he knows that the
whole bluff which walls in Pine Grove OH
the south, is composed of one entire block
of stone equal to the Buhr, and sufficient to
furnish grist mills for all the planets. Now,
why should we eternally pay double the first
cost, for hauling heavy articles which pro-
lection would soon enable US to make cheap
er at homer Take the articles of white
lead and lead pipe for instance. The free
trader would have the farmer send his wheat
TO New York and sell il to get money TO buy
these articles with. The farmer, 10y this
operation, loses what it costs to get his
wheat TO New York, and what it costs TO
get his white lead aud lead pipe from there
to his farm. Our creed is, to encourage the
manufacture of lead; TO start factory in our
county, to bring producer and consumer to-
gether, and thus to save what is now wasted
in exchanging commodities between them.
bEt- PErER FITzGERALD, "a farmer, liy-
! ing on the head of Grant river, north of
Lancaster, has presented us with ruta
baga, which measures three feet and nine
inches in circumference. We shall have it
dug out for wash tub.
ANNEXATION OF CunA.-lntelligence was
received by the last steamer, that actual ne
poriations had been entered upon between
our Government, aud that of Spain, for the
cession Of Cuba to the United States.
20 Mr.. JEssE CooPER was recently
killed IN ,he Little Miami railroad. tie
w,s MISSING n, ,ar one of the engines, when
by misstep he wes precipitoted into the
machinery cnuld