The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-06-21
The Wool Clip Of 1866.

LETTER FROM A WOOL GROWER.
The following letter written to the Milwaukee
Sentinel, will be read with as much interest by
the people of this section of the State, of any
other, and we therefore copy it entire:
The wool-buyers of milwaukee, Cleveland,
and some other places, have been issuing their
circulars to wool buyers and wool growers, with
some good and wholesome advice, as to washing
and doing p wool well; and promising to discrim-
mate in favor f the honest wool grower, and a.
gainst those who only half wash their wool, &C.,
and in this will second their endeavors to raise
the credit OF Wisconsin wool. But let the buyers
remember, that heretofore they have paid nearly
as much for dirty as for good clean WOOL and
while they are making good promises to correct
that error this year, they are themselves seeking
to perpetrate fraud the wool growers, by
seeking TO establish new r,.le of "one-halt
shrinkage on all unwash6d bucks feeces." We
say il is fraud for the following reasons
First, The manu- lecturers do not dema nd but
one-thlrG shrinkage of us, or OF you on those
heeces, and you propose TO swindie us for your
especial benefit.
Second, The cleansing of those heeces does not
warrant but one-third shrinkage, TO reduce them
to the standard OF washed wool OF the same grade,
for remember, that the coarse and fine woods of
Wisconsin, after they are washed, shrink on an
average OF forty-eight per cent in cleansing, and
as Merino washed wool shrlnks more in cleans
ing than coarse wool, the shrinkage of one-third
on an average Merino bucks fleece will reduce
II TO the value of full blood Merlno washed wool,
and if some breed for oil instead of wool, buy
such heeces Oh their merits, instead of doing as
you have heretofore done with dirty woods, re-
ward the guilty, aud punish the innocent. No
man should buy our wool who seeks to en- force
that rule on the wool growers of Wisconsin.
Let us cay few words on the prospective price
OF wool to the wool growers of Wisconsin. The
manufacturers for the past year have pursued
the Fabian policy, of only buying wool to supply
their immediate wants for the purpose OF keeping
the wool market depressed. Then let the wool
growers act on the same policy, and let the wool
go into the market slow, ana it will checkmate
the manufacturers.
There is the least amount of first class wool in
he market this year that there has been for years
at this time OF the year. and if we hold steady on
our large clips of Woo we may in few months
see the manufacturers agent at our doors again,
and dispense with the services of those middle
men who ask us to sell one class of our WOO with
one-half off that they may sell them to the manu-
facturers with one-third off. The manufacturers
overdld the thing, and depresse ed the market too
early, and 1t is rising again, so that the clip
finds Il rising ket instead of fa Hin mark ct,
as was usual at this time OF the year, and tn ere is
prospect Of an increased tariff on wool, and the
gold market 50 nigh, az to check lmportations,
and an increase of splndles greater than the in
crease of sheep, SO that the prospect of the wool
grower ls not so gloomy as the buyers would wish
TO make us believe, and if we are discreet we
may get some remuneration for our toll. e. S.
Oshkosh June Is. 1866.