Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-06-08
Wool Trade.

with a request to publish
A few days ago we received the fol-
lowing inquiry from commission
wool house in st. Louis, Missouri
" In your issue of the 9th inst, in the
wool report, we read as follows Man
ufacturers are determined to accept mel.
Their unwashed, half washed, nor wash
ed bucks, except at discount of one.
third Being unacquainted with the
mode of conducting the wool trade in
New York, you will much oblige by ex-
planning it in an editorial, especially
the extract above"
There are few persons engaged in the
wool business who are not aware that
it has long been the custom to deduct
One-third from the weight of unwashed
fieeces, this being about the average
which they would shrink more than
those which have been well washed
but there are large number of heeces
in every purchase which are In such a
condition, that it has always been
matter OF controversy between buyer
! and seller whether the sheep had ever
been in the water or not, the seller nya-
riably claiming that they had, the buy
er maintaining that they never had. If
the dealers were very anxious to sell,
! then the buyers argument prevailed ;
| but if the anxiety of the buyer exceeded
that of the dealer, then the weight of
the argument was on the side of him
| who sold, and the wool was declared to
be washed. But this controversy has
| been brought to close the last Winter
and the present Spring and all fleeces
about which the slightest doubt NAV be
raised, and those which both would
agree the sheep had been in the water,
but was badly washed, are classed with
the uuwashed, and subject to the same
deduction. Bucks fleeces about which
there was no doubt, all parties agreeing
that they were washed, yet the ends of
the staples being full of gum and the
staple full of grease, and though manu-
faCturers never claimed any deduction
for them before, they never liked to pur-
chase them if they could avoid it.
These are now subjected to the same de.
| ductiOn so that the custom NAV now
be said to be fairly established in all the
Eastern markets, to deduct for all wool
which does not give unmistakable evi
dence of having been washed, and al
washed bucks fieeces, one-third Of the
weight.
Since the washed and unwasheC
bucks fleeces are both subject to the
same deduction, we do not in the future
expect to meet with many washed
bucks leeces, and we hope that the sys-
TEN which has been inaugurated will
work the great object for which it is in
tended-that Of compelling dealers to
make a close examination of the condi
tion Of all fieeces before they purchase
This will be one of the greatest benefits
that ever came to the farmer whC
! waehos bio wool well ana brings it IL
| good condition into the market. Neithe
, will any, we think, be so foolish as tt
| risk a deduction of one-third for al
lowing their sheep just to swim through
the water, but they will either wash
well or not at all.
| Should this system work well durin!
the coming season, we expect anOthe
year to see campaign against heav,
strings. We may expect a deduction
on account of extra weight of string
ing season is close at hand, and it i
very important that the farmers shoult
understand these things in order tina
they may act understandingly and pre-
pare for the great change which appear
now to be-awaiting them. He who ha
always labored hard to bring his WOO
into the market in good condition will
rejoice that brighter day is just abOu
to dawn, and that he is going to rea
the long delayed reward which soone
or later is the lot of him who neve
wearies in well doing
The adoption of the system to whic
we have referred has been serious los
to the dealers during the season of stag
nation, for a great many had bought il
discriminatory, without much referenC
to either washed or unwashed. If the
met with farmer who did not wash {
all, his wool would be bought for III
washed, but during washing some shee
will get away from the washers eth,
before or after going into the waite
these have frequently been sold to dea
ers for washed wool, and now whe
they are submitted to very rigid e.
animation, and this class Of wool throw
, out and subject to a deduction of on
third the weight, it comes at tin
, when they are little able to bear such
:, deduction, for, when added to the ia
:. off in price from what they bought at
makes very heavy loss, and if addt
, to what they might have sold for la
Fall, it makes that loss such IRENE
dous one, and produces such an impre
= sion upon their minds that we do n
expect to find them buying without Sc
, ing that the woof is in such conditiC
that it can be bought without being Ii
bic to deduction when in the Eastel
market; and those farmers that ha'
E been in the habit CT only half washir
, their wool may expect that the day h,
gone by when they can receive as muC
for it as those who wash we'll. Deeper
upon it, that nothing but washed woo
done up in the best possible name
viii bring the best price, and
who would stand at the head of h
neighbors for obtaining the best pr,
must have the best wool, the be
washed, and no more string than ju
sufficient to properly tie the fleece.
. b9-At the next grand council of Il
| cODDerheads let il be