The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-10-08


out 81 tbe o. interesting eseycisaa
! eonnecsad sta tbo State air, WAS Ito
liscussioa Al De Farmers meeting, On
Itarsaay eyeniae upoa Ito Nool gnes.
Gon
En- 6nswoll of Yves, Salisbury,
Was lhc aFst speaker lie allnded 10
the general depression in The wool
uiarket thram alout tho country, and
aaad dat tie elect u this depression
Was more serious az the West than il is
a tie East Probably throe-iourths 81
the sheep in Ohio will be slaughtered
during the present year. Any long
continued depression il the wool mar
ket viii drive hosts Of farmers out Of
the business. lie believed that 50
many men would drop wool raising
throughout the country that It would
cause the price Of wool 10 advance ten
or twenty cents per pound during the
next year or two. The Vermont far
mers ought to try and raise good
class Of sheep, independently Of the
, wool that they directly aim for He
could see no reason for any permanent
discouragement in regard to wool grow
ing, He believed that the trade in
sheep would soon be as lively in Yer
mont MS il had been, though the prices
might not be as high as they were dur
ing the war.
Victor Wright of Middlebury, said
that be was not discouraged as a wool
grower and could see no reason for any
! wide spread Encouragement. Low
prices must be expected occasionally,
and there was no sense in abandoning
the wool growing business because the
prices were temporarily depressed
, He expected the farmers and wool
: growers Of the State to do all in their
power to retain the present tariff For
himself he would not knowingly vote
for any man, for State Legislature even,
who was not known to be decidedly in
favor Of protective tariff.
There are now about SO, 10000 per-
sons in the United States, and the an
nual consumption of the wool is about
60,000, 600 lbs. With so large a yield
Of wool as we now have, the question is
how can the market be controlled and
protected so far as to make the business
remunerative. In Brazil wool can be
grown at three cents per pound, and in
Australia, the finest wool in the world
can be grown for seven cents per pound
: In view Of these facts he regarded o
duty Of ten cts. pound as none toe
q high, and in fact, not high enough
: Tie South American and Australian
. woods can be imported under that duty
and sold at prices that will rum Yer
mont wool-growers 1t is OF vital con
: sequence that the present tariff be sus-
t tanned and he knew that it was tho de-
: sign Of the MASSACHUSETTS, manufactur.
ers to try and get Mr.. David A. Wells
tariff through at the next session d
Congress. He thought it would BIZ
j useless for the wool growers to contenc
b with the manufacturers, for the manu-
facturers have control of both the po
litical and agricultural press The man
ufacturers are the shrewdest men IL
= the country, and they will spare nc
money and no pains to carry their point
s The farmers are not organized for com
= petition, and are not prepared to con
tend for their rights. He urged the
Importance of getting the press inter
r ested in behalf of the wool growers
: and Of having able and practical agents
4 employed to watch Congress and SEE
that the wool-growing interest gets it,
!, rights. He aid that the reason VIII,
u the wooden mills are not running NOR,
y generally is not on account of excess
e i've importation of goods, but because
4 there are more mills than are wanted
to manufacture the cloth needed for ust
u in the country.
u Edward Hammond, of NIiddlebury
i made some remarks in regard to thu
I, agreement made between the manufac
turers and wool-growers A grea
g many of the manufacturers were always
v opposed to any union with the growers
e and a great many of the manufacturer
q in Massachusetts, and elsewhere neyel
became parties to that agreement. HI
believed that those of them who mad,
IL an agreement to act in concert witt
q the woolgrowers upon the tariff ques
e ton remained faithful to their agree
4 ment, and it was to be remembered
, that tho present tsriff ulon wool, which
!. was four cents per pound more thai
under the preceding duty, was obtained
c through the assistance of the manufac
i turers. ff
t Henay Clark, of Rutland, defended
Il the manufacturers from the accusation
q that had been made against them Of &C
q ting in bad faith TO the growers TIL,
!" present tariff could never have beeI
g obtained without the aid OF the manu-
factuTers.
3 IT, O. Merriam Of Boston, said tina
! $400, 600, 900 was invested in wool grow
i ing in tie United States, aud it was o
! the first importance to all wool growers
a ard TO all farmers who were not woo
\ growers. that this department Of Amer
! lean agriculture should be carefully at
1 tended TO. The cutting off Of the cot
4 ton supply during the war largely in
J creased the demand for wool, as well Al