The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-11
Communicated.
Preparing asad Doing up Wool
for Market

II is fact we'll known 10 those Sho have han
died wool extensively, both as sellers and purchns-
era that tho condition IN winch wool is put Hp has
much 10 90 in fixing or establishing the price
thereof IN the different States as well as in the
several sections Of each State.
For instance, Ohio woos command higher price
in the Eastern market than that Of any other
Western State and the wool from Licking, IIarri-
son and one or two other counties in our State,
bring from, to 10 cents per ID. more than that Of
OF other localities in our commonwealth.
Now this difference il not attributable to our
having better sheep than the people Of the West
ern States for, taken as a whole, tho sheep Of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa are more uniformly
good, and finer, than those Of Ohio.
We probably have some better sheep than they,
but AZ general rule wo wash our wool better, aud
tic up more neatly than they do, and this is the
main secret Of our prG-eminencc in getting higher
prices.
Those who have noticed the condition of wool as
brought into our market for tie past few years,
will be forced to admit The fact thNttoo little regard
is paid to cleansing, tying up, aud handling Gcner-
ally, for us ~ gain wool reputation that will en-
able us to command the highest price for it.
Some Of our farmers only haJ wash their sheep,
to commence with others let their sheep run top
long after washing aud others tie up the tags and
Rlt, in the fleece Some usc three or four times
as much twnc rs needed aul comparatively few
use press or wool-packer, which congresses II
into n much smaller compass than can possibly be
done by hand besides giving il neat tidy, aud
mora uniform aud attractive appearance.
The time has come when these errors in practice
should. for the reputation of our county, be cor
rcctcd. Purchasers should discriminate between
tcW haldicd wool, aud the badly handled. There
arc many kinds Of WOOL presses or tying machines
from the cheap folding one, costing from 90 to
50, and which eau be made by almost any farmer
himself to the better and murs perfect box cog
wheel one costing from So to SO. All Of these
machines turn out the fleece in nice square form
generally about ton inches SOU re. Those 0f us
who try to have good wool, and put it in market in
proper condition, must insist ON getting higher
price than the careless aud iniiITtreut grower oui
| am gratii,d to learn that our principal wool pur-
chascrs in porrysburg have resolved to make n
greater discrimination this season than heretofore.
There Ia good article in the Rroi .Vr Yorker,
Of May 5, on this subject, from which the following
extracts are taken. The editor says
In some lhlrty-hvo years experience, we nave
never vet seen buyer who was willing to give
just as much for wool pat UP with unwashca tags
In it, and wound with any amount of twinc, as il
properly put up. Such buyer, il purchasing 70,
himself would be u fool it purchasing for an
other, d scOunircl. II is mere nonsense TO say
that any buyer will knowingly pay os much fo
any considerable amount of unnecessary twinc a
for wool. No; the men who purposely use twice
or three times the proper amount of twine on pnr
Of til cir wool, have mltive They don't do 1t to
nothing. und then tell the buyer of il. That woulC
be child's play. Their object is to cheat. And un
| less the buyer is on his guard, and not only exam
ines every part of the pile, but every scparat,
| fleece, he is iablo to be thus cheated.
As with the Spartan, the crime is not supposed
to be in tho st4aling, but in being found out.
The plea that wrong bccom IS right when It i
r,fulio f5ry-that We have right to cheat the wool
buyer because he does not pay enough for woods
| or make proper discrimination in them is basc'
| on principle of action which has filled Our Stat
| prisons with convicts and tho world with miser
! and crime.
Our correspondent is cgregiously mistaken il
sunpCs sing that the condition in which woods ar
put up do not influence their price. Their usua
| or habitual condition IN u particular neighsorhoo
| or region soon becomes known to those who sen
agents to buy them, Agents arc universally re
strictcd within certain ranges OF prices, aud thos
restrictions are made in reference to the antioipn
ted quality and condition of tho woods they are I
| buy, Ii sent to region where woods ale usual
1 badly put up, the maximum price allowed to b
paid is lower. Therefore often happens that iCoo
| Of tie best qVality and condition rU not cop,mdIt
6tr tuii prices IN neighborhood Of poor reputation
The italicisug of last sentence is mines and be
ing the conclusion of the quoted editorial, hope
will also DO the conclusion of every - ool grower
Wool County who may Nai this hastily prepare
article. j, w. II.