Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-20
Published by requost.l
ADDRESS
To the wool-Grovers OF the state OF Ohio'

lingness to hear them. ~,
III is known to you that the Wooi puy-
ers i'm this and other wooi-groWing ota.es'
have recently been holding meetings,
nossing resolutions, and forming ptedged
rombinations,-the main drift and pur-
nose of which Is to run down the price OF
vour wools,-which they have been at
The pains to have published in many OF
the country newspapers, besides oircula-
ting in pamphlet form, under the TUE Oh
an address to the Wool-Growers OF
Ohio,n &C.; and, for the same purpose
they have procured to be re-published, Ill
said newspapers, such articles as the one /
contained i'm the New York Economist
of the 18th ult. In these publications,
along with some truth, much error ana
sophistry are disseminated. These, WITH !
out more particular reference to. them |
than is thus made, we propose to pass IN
review and expose, so that what shali be
said under our several heads VIII be iouno
to be complete answer to them.
oIIs--ITS USES.
Grams for coupling should throw out
J es much oil ms possible-the more the
| better. 1t should be of nearly white
/ color. Tor rs some might prefer to express
| it. of a pale golden transparent yelioW,l
and very limpid, so as to flow without
concretion to the outer extremity OF tne
staple, thereto become hardened and iorm
a dark covering over the whole. rms OIL
or yolk, in large quantities, IS nat4rai 10
and characteristic of the merino. Its OBJ
yious uses and advantages are two-fold,
and these mentally dependent upon each
other, First: To the health of thesheep,
becnllsc then the oil glands have their
true development, and will perform thelr
functions as they ought. Second: 10 the
value of the wool, because then, incased
in it, the wool is kept soft and clean, m
stead of becoming dry, harsh, dlrty, ana
flimsy, az it would do without it.. 1t pre-
serves so to speak, the health, strength,
and life of the wool. 1t keeps in SOUND
condition the barbed sides and serated
edges of the fiber, upon which with the
purely mechanical assistance of the crimp
compelling the required arrangement OF
: the fibers and their relative position to
each other the felting properly depends.
Manufacturers expect an impossipiilty
! when they look for the production OF
, wool possessing all these qualities IN the
= highest degree without oil in abundance.
The texture, glossiness, beauty, ana du-
c rability of the cloth. made from the wool,
= are all due in great measure TO tne OH
or yolk; and the perfection of all OF them
l., depends upon its amount ana quality.
This doctrine of the uses and necessity
! of oil, challenges alike the assent OF th'
If manufacturer and of the wool-grower--
l of the manufacturer 1t may he against nj
e. will as he short-sightedly believes IL u
., he against his interest. As nature ha
~ clothed the merino with a fleece OF sucl
&c surpassiug beauty and value, so also ha
10 she accompanied the gift with an cXu
Z berance of oil for its tubrtcdta0h, ant
y thereby for its protection and preserva
ton during the whole period OF itsgroWth
- But, oil is not WOOL and, uniortuhately
" after it has completed its appointed task
ld and made ready for the manufacturer
Y: material so unique and elegant. there ar
al those who, ignoring its uses and all tha
%. il has accomplished for them, would b
,it rid of IL and denounce it as If it had neve
n been of any value. This is the sam
no pressure under II new phase, OF the mar
es ufncturer upon the wOol-erower, that wa
Int brought to bear with so much force du
to ing the Saxon period, which all remen
is ber and which resulted so disastrousi
ia for our merino focks. Let once SUM
no to have yielded to such representation
he Surely the ruin consequent upon 1t WI
I'm not soon be forgotten by our flockmaster
lv Shall we, then, breed our sheep ava
"a from oil, or with less oil? We can do
his If we choose. But it will be attende
Mi as in the former case during the sake
we period, with deterioration or our Iloci
do and return to the old-fashioned ligl
wa fleeces of two and n half pounds OF Wo
IA
de, be liable to further reduction OF thlrt
ar three per cent. by thorough securing
nit the hands of the manufactures, ana on
10 leave about one and II half pounds as u
nte average of the cleansed fleeccs. Is I'll
yed equal to thoroughly secured ileeces weig
inr ing from three pounds and upwards
vas ewes, up to eight pounds for bucks!
ose think not.
! I9 of Again: 1t will not do to say that t
- | III II,
lrse more on sneep produces ny ,so ,''o
,roI he will produce, or that oil Is produc
to mt the expense of wool, any more tn
" IL will do to say the less oil n sheep p
duces the more wool he will produce
oIs. the latter being but the converse OF
,sh- former proposition and because
,oao latter, however disproved by the eXl
'''o rience of breeders, not only i'll the q
lred of different breeds and families OF sht
cia- but of individuals also, would eXcll
en- any--the least amount--of oil. And
ought then to find the heaviest shear
amongst those families possessing
our least amount of oil, or none ut all II tl
yns were possible. And not only so, but
'old should find amongst those having
de- least amount of oil the indioidHdts Il
have made the greatest improvement
har- our fine wooded flocks. This we do
an do.
,oft- hut, Il Is suggested that oil is produ
racy food is required. Now, oil is, rs has bt
seen. a natural secretion of the sheep
day necessary in the production of wool; .
,ch- this proposition assumes that 1t is po
BILE TO change the secrctlons from oil
are wool. In discussing this question
ssen ought to settle 1t In the first plc
gent whether sheep perspires or not in .
yood other way than by its oil? If he d
,, 80 not, then what would bo thought {
lpii- proposition to change the perspirat
r of secretions OF man into flesh In orde
ned. save the expenditure Of food thereby
Or, the same inorganic elements us w
AND does not the sheep the same elemt
Sun, In his dung and urine? and, If so, v
olxer not compel him to assimilate gre,
proportion of those elements from
food for wool and oil, and leave less 4
has a passed Off in his eXcrements p-there
ch is Ing more than twenty times ms M
m perhaps more than one hundred time
-, much of all those elements passed OF
or'h- the dung and urine than Is contains
both wool and yolk put together.
,und, us see how IL Is? We suppose 1t
.ster, estimate If we set IL down, that eN
,pen- full grown ram voids two pounds of