The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-29
Tns Wool TRApE-PRosPEcrs AND

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TnE Wool TRADE-PRosPEcTs AND
PRIcEs.-The N. Y. 7ri6une publishes
an article on the subject Of wool, which,
as taking a diferci& view of the trade
from that which is generally entertain
cd. we condense for our readers. The
writer says:
Wo notice that there is more than the |
usual excitement in regard to the prob
able price of this years clip of WOOL
The opinion is generally prevalent among
the farmers that the price will be serious
y affected by the operation of the new
tariff, which makes all wool free that
costs twenty cents or under at the port of
cmbarkation. II invoices are honestly
made, this alteration will not material
" affect the finer woods that have here
tofore formed the bulk of the produc-
ton in the United States. The COM
peting woods are the Australian, and
part Of South American, which CORES
pond to our merinoes. Those woods are
now comparatively higher in London
than in New York so much so, indeed,
that it will be an object for manufactur-
ers to purcha1e our woods at prices in
adv ance of lsS(ycar.
This article maintains that instead Of
largo increase in sheep in the older
States, Of late years, such as might have
been expected, there has really been
decrease, and that this decrease is most
" in fine wool sheep, and that, though
the coarser wool, which win prevail, is
the kind which will come into more d.
rect competition with the foreign wool,
yet that it cannot be much affected this
year, on occount Of the high price Of
foreign wool. The writer says, in re-
gard to this point:
The price Of the finer grades of wool
has advanced from 10 to 90 per cent, in
all tho German markets over the last
years prices. The German woods are
so high that the English find it difficult
to get a supply there, and are thrown
upon the better grades of colonial, and
have thereby enhanced the value of all
grades Of Cape and Australian woods, as
we'll as the better grades of South
American. If itwere not for the unsat-
isfactory condition of the market for
wooden goods, the price of wool, owing
to the decreased production, would rule
higher ia this market than for many
years past.
He concludes by saying that there is
no good reason why farmers should dis
pose Of their wool at any, less price than
they obtained last year, but the article
must be in prime condition, and well
put up. a
If this writer's theory be correct. Wis
consin farmers, whose crop, both in
quantity and quality, is steadily improv-
ing from year TO year, can rely on good
prices, provided the weather, during the
summer. gets warm enoughilto allow of
shearing without the sheep freezing to
dcath.-Ml. Sentinel.
ADVANTAGES OF USING TOBACCO
Some few years ago the following was
communicated to Commodore Wilkes,
Of the exploring expedition. by a savage
ST the Fejee Islands. Hs stated that a
vessel, the l.ull of which was still lying
Oh the beach, had come ashore in a
storm, and that all the crew had fallen
iAto the hands of the Islanders.
'.What did you do with them p in
c'lired Wilkes. @ Eat s
killed 'em all" answered the saw
age. # IRE
"What did you do with them after
you had killed them o. AR.
Eat 'em good" returned the cauni-
bal. yf
e add you aat them nil ." asked the
half-sick commodore.
Eyes, we eat all but one T.
81 Sand why did you spare one ?"
because he tasted too much like to-
bacco. Couldn't eat him. no how p
fla tobacco-chewer should happen to
fall into the hands of the New Zealand
savages, or get shipwrecked somewhere
in the Fejce group, he will have the con-
ISOLATION of knowing that he will not be
cut into steaks and buried in the uncon-
sccrated stomach of cannibal.