New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-14
INTERESTING TO F.RMERS.
SHEEP AND WOOL.

-, worscd goods Was not the Only tluse OF Tue Ieuuc
on OF price or which tend 10 l'cF' ass 'Ne consump
stu Of wool Daring toe thirteen 70 rs 10 winch We
,aser in the prcyjous article wool comDlng machines
>scra u.tfeeed and enc,y superseded the Old system
az hand oombing. This process was very expensive
ro md caused the LisL pice q wosted yarns. From
70 80 cents according to quality. we're paid per
,,rrd for combing by hand. Tie same can now be
..o,,bed bv machinery for little more than cent per
rouod Here agail we have beautiful exempifcniiou
a. the improvements machinery esseuing the cost Of
PRODUCTION and increasing The value OF The raw mo
e. ial
Rut farmers seldom tlirk hat those wonderful inyen
fioi Of manufacture aler aud direct benefits con-
red upon tbeIn nor .co. az mechanic always reaze
s1tt the machine upon WILT he is laboing Is not only
" benefit the manufacturer bat the iafher' shu
smough these channels is 70 come back blessing 10
lilself The operative TOO oiien LOOKS upon these
ib0rsaving machines as engines constructed LOT 'he
purpose Of dePriying hin II MS dGy oieaa' "neA IN
fact they are opening up enterprises which shall
fgrlish him better niag ana with less expenditure
OF ply steal force.
we remember the time when power.lOoms were first
introduced, how the obs rushed to destroy the mills
ana how the soldiers had protect them from those
persons who would have destroyed The whole had not
bristlng bayonets prevented thOm from iobbug them
selves of their best friends At ,ht beginning of the
,rtsent century woIsted nearly all spun by hand
rcnbed by band and woven by hard. These processes
lgs,e extremely slow and vcy expensive. Then manu-
raeturers carried oil the goods they produced IN WeeN
Ipon the back Of a horse; igd il quite common
occurrence for tie horse cagIy lis owner oesiuesi
not unfrequent on the I.turn The iorSe orought ds
much wool on its back as would pl y tie wants of
owner fox a wees What progress has beoA maze shse
tboso days in the mode OF co"'cyance t!rs thof"o'
wheeled cart; then the foarUheccd wagon and nov,
ehe rairoad-hese also ~ owing With harmonious step
7 10 the music Of other Improvements.
II 1900 England produced i' 49, G pounds Of poor.
aoft, coarse wool and on, $1,000 800 pounds Of very
ione tough coarse anu very frequently ccted wool
~tsch was very severe task aPol tie poor. unfor
eanate individual who had 10 mis- livelihood by
SaDd conibing.
Tho introduction OF machinery wrought grc1t
change 10 Tie prslucon Of woc ioT in ss there was
produced g. 323 $50 pounds OF long wool while the
hort wool had decreased "a 2so57,,cO pounds. Tho
fb0t wool being coarse end nahlea for the finer c'as
sS voolens. the English fliuer found 1t to his adj
vantage to cultivate TIC long goced sheer the elimHe
not being adapted 20 tho production os fine WOO,
ebouch the consumption Of that class increased in pro
portion to tie ption Of long wool. The increase
Stree that time and short wool has been on the Dc
crease IL ls59 there Nogo 100000 sheep kept IL
.xpgland which estimated At foa pounds per fleece
yeud be 100 600 coo poanGs tis would be considered
4 low estimate.
We now desire TO cat, TIC attention OF the farmer to
the imp of lands and also Of tie sheep which
grs been marching alorg With al other noted improve
merts About the beginning Of the present century tAe
long wooded sleep OF England were generally very
poorly formed. motoring very slowly and producing
very long and very wool; the Eetber5 Of this
esss of sheep were seldom ready Tor The SAMPLES be-
fore four years old, sBd iicquenuy not III five AL
Bokewe commenced is experiments about tie middle
of the 18th century and ~ ."eded in ob;nring =
much weight Of mater at tNo years Of a as Lis prede
cess0rs had done at fo,r lis Improvement soon ex
eerded 10 oil the Ion wooded breeds aid not only to
vhe sheep but TO the lambs The CO.zWc!d Hills. whence
Che CCtswod sheep derive thcirname were bleak, bar
ren elayey wds about tAa tin OF which We are writ.
ing upon them were produced long legged. lat
sbjed variety extremely lhtint forc-quar'ers but
spon this soil they could b. faed and IT the age OF
two and three years ther were sold ito the valleys Of
Thames and severn where they were iated at the age
of four and Eve years. But IN improvement Of the
lands produced vcteLos. and the best u artificial
grasses and by improviLs ho folD Of the sheen bY
rounding the ribs increasing TIE size 81 the icreqnar
Gers and shortening tie legs which vas done ~ INTRO
duoing the improved Leicester aud by breeding Only
from those possessing these qualities IN the. highest dc
gree the farmers were enabled nj III lie sheep tLey
Sasea upon their iils ard bring them fat to mar
ks,. q two ana two and a Lar years old. Some were
fstted al twelve and fourteen months Old and al that
sgc wei shed nom IS 10 - pounts per quarter and at
one and half and two years Old they weighed from 25
So IS pounds Per garter The rslns foneues reached
eco pounds and sLeared fleece weighing non 10 10
pouncs-ccan. brook.wtGhe9 wool. which would yield
from to pounds cierr wool, ;ealy for tie cards
Ewes frequently weighed sOo pounds, ana SHARED fIon
ITO II pounds OF vol. These remarks viii apply to
ell the long.wooled breeds Of England.
But we introduce ills class for tie purpose Of exem
piyiag how the improvements in land IN sheep in Wool
and In manufactures keep exact step with each other
TIE kind Of wool prodEoel b. the long wooded Is
much sought after TT the present time and is styled
oorting wool ard brings IN the market higher price
per pound than any other kind Of wool
We have taken some trouble 10 show how The manu-
fscurc Of worssed goods has progressed how improve
rnent after Improvement he's taken place in macnlery
and the improvement in land and Sheep has kept pace
with the others ard W. to-day nths country have the
benefit Of all those experiences; We have all the i'm
psoyel machinery but We have not the wool. We are
to-day largely Indebted TO royaltyriddcn Canada for
large quantities Of this wool they cone and take our
est prices Our system is Incomplete because the far
.sr has Iagged behind and prosperity this ac
,aoun, ia seriously irter:ered with.
We find as good beef in our markets can be found
ywhere; but the nv'toD is comparatively poor,
I'd very little Of tlat superior article pro-
a.