The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-26


sheep kept in the county produced a
home market, without cost of trans
portation, and it was so elsewhere. The
prosperity of the wool interest stmu-
lated other interests. He thought they
were right in asking as fair protection
as the manufacturers. If 1t were 10
cents per pound,-what the Pittsburgh
convention asked for, he should vote
for it still more cheerfully. He had no
fears of getting too much. He wanted
the tariff if it went into operation to go
into operation from its passage-not
give time for the importers to ship in
all the wool they want for two or three
years to come.
Col Harris expressed his willingness
to vote for the resolution as it stood.
He would have preferred it'in the Ian
guage of the report of the joint COM
mittee, 10 cents specific and 10 cents ad
valorem. He was willing to ask u or
l5i but he thought the object should be
be to get tariff sufficiently high that
would stand, and not make it SO high
as 10 provoke efforts to knock it down
next year. The object should be not to
make large profits one year and be
ruined the next, but that they should
have reasonable and uniform compen-
sation. The American wool had be-
come a necessity to the manufacturer.
Hitherto it had been undervalued, but
now the manufacturers are just begin
ming to find out its value for particular
classes of cloths.
Mr.. Benjamin Cumley, of Jefferson
county, Ohio, also addressed the Con-
vention in advocacy of the resolution
asking a higher tariff on wool, and
when he had concluded the vote on the
resolutions was taken and they were
adopted mem con.
The next subject was announced, viz:
BEST method of putting up wool and
marketing it," and DIR. Lemoyne being
called on, S aid that some were for shear
Shearing washed, which throws
it later. He advocated shearing in the
grease, and therefore shearing early be-
cause sheep, as soon as the warm
weather comes suffer from the weight
of their coats. 1t was not according TO
nature for them to thrive well in the
spring with their winter clothing on.
When the wool is taken off rs early as
suitable for the comfort and health of
the animal it may be done almost
month earlier than if you wait for
weather warm enough to wash and
then wait long enough to let the WOOL
dry so as to make it handle well. linen
the wool has month longer to grow
before the next winter and to protect
the sheep against the fall and winter
storms. His experience as n wool
grower-and not II small one-was that
more injury is done by the first fall
storms than by all the others of the
year.
BY establishing this uniformity of
shearing i'll the. grease as soon as the
weather is warm, all the wool in the
country would be in the same condi-
ton. Now we have "full washed" and
"half washed" and in n manner no
wash at all. One man makes his wool
perfectly clean, another doesn't wash
-, {; nla nd Il, fl,irl yNratnnHG
to wash and sells it for washed, when
it really is not. Men buy it at the same
| price as if it were clean, and here is n
| temptation all the time to have the
wool in condition that is II disgrace to
it, lowering the tone of it in the market
| permanently. He advocated the as
sorting, sampling and stapling of wool.
The present method of selling in the
| fleece does not conduce to the interest
| of the wool grower. The history of the
sale of wool in those countries of long
experience has led them to divide the
heeces into different sorts and pack
| each species of wool in n separate sack.
| Then the producer gets the advantages
of the good qualities.
Buyers always pick out the inferior
| grades in IL mixed lot and average II
down TO the low grade and so you get
II better price for the whole lot if it is
assorted. He advocated in every coun-
! w "uCEG lllGIO wal d SulllClchI
| ty of wool to justify, to assert it, estab-
lish warehouses, have skillful inspeC-
tors and markers and have the wool of
the whole nGighbOrhoOd be brought
there and assorted out and each quality
marked one, two, three, four, and so
on. We thus do away with the middle
men. The manufacturer comes direct
ly to the grower. It does not prevent
commercial or speculative operations if
they are preferred. 1t would compel
every man to haYe his wool in fair con-
dition because the State examiner
would not receive it unless it was.
Maj. Mcfarland said this matter was
| discussed in Washington county, Penn
| sylvania, twenty years ago, but fell
through. He agreed with DR.. LemOyne
that it should now be put in practice.
Col. Harris said it would be more
honest to sell wool without any pre-
tence of washing than as it is. The
taking it unwashed. They so stated ut
the Syracuse Convention. 1t was the
dealers and spectators who objected.
| In regard to the best way of selling
wool he expressed views similar to
those expressed by DIR. Lemoyne.
Mr.. Ewing was opposed to the wool
depot plan. If the wool was put in good
order the manufacturers would buy.
Those who have good will sell first,
then If the manufacturers want more
they will of course buy the
bad afterwards. He favored wash
ing wool clean, and let the SELL
ing regulate itself He did not
Greasy sheep held great deal of dirt,
and n fleece that in the grease will
weigh % or 30 pounds, will, after wash
ing, come down to 3 or pounds.
Col. Asa Manchester, of Washington
county, Pennsylvania, was also in ia
Vor of washing wool.
Mr.. Estep said the Harrison county
wool men had found it best to wash
wool reasonably we'll and sell it ut
home.
DIR. Lemoyne said that in regard to
the loss of weight by washing, the fact
was established by the experiments
tried at Columbus last year, that the
wool in its unwnshcd state is one-third
henVier than when washed. In regard
10 the transportation of the grease in
the wool, it would cost about two
cents Il pound to Massachusetts or
eight or ten cents on the fleece,
ard months growth of wool to
protect valuable animal against the
fall storms is worth IL great deal more
than that. Besides to manufactures we'll,
wool must be what manufacturers
call ripe" and they will give two or
three cents n pound more for it. When
washed wool is kept any length of time
it is very liable to be moth eaten but
every old woman can tell you that if
you will keep it in the grease, moth will
never touch it.
No propositions being made for any
action in reference to this topic, the
Convention passed to the next, viz:
Wool Growers Associations and how to
make them useful, but the hour grow
ing late and many leaving the hall to
catch an evening train on the Steuben-
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