Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-14
THE KNOXVILLE WING
Knoxville, Tenn, October ID, 1868.
what Sort OF Wool Shall we Grow I'm
East Tennessee?


We don't ask the question: Shall we grow
aaaIw That is a settled thing But the kind Of
aa.l that viii bring most money into our pockets
d.. a point to be studied. ~
For year,, the great raising States have been
bonding all their strength 10 fine woods, chiefly
merno. These have paid pretty well, always But
there Is another sort that the United States has
raised scarcely any Of; we meap the long wool or
POI. frequently called combng wool. II gets this
name from tho fact that it is oon5ea as prepare
lion Tor spinning. Yarn spun from this combed
wool is called ,oorstof and goods woven from such
yarn go under the name Of i0orsted goods. Now,
vortod goods arc always Of choice quality, arc
ugorly sought after in all markets, and never
Gil 10 bring high prices EngIahd has this many
o. year had hundreds Of mills thousaa3a Of looms,
and immense capital employed in nlakiny worsteds
.r their ewn home use, .sps slseior sending all
over the civilized world. al this creates heavy
and a steady and unfailing demand for long woods.
Tho market has never BEEN known 10 be glutted
vitbsuch woods the price Of them has never boen
Gnown % drop to point below good, handsome
profit 10 tho wool-grower. But long wooded she5p
IRE not found in our country; where, then ? Why
n England mainly. There they are raised in inn
mense numbers. Canadian farmers, too-rnhny Of
whom SIRE from Britain--have Of lase years taken
up TIE business, and the traveller may now see in
tho Provinces numerous enc nocks of Ootswods.
So far VIC have mentioned only the English
wor.tcd mills But within the last few years our
American manufacturers have put up good many
col. them and as The business has become better un-
isrstooi, and operatives have got trained, the
a5rtcd-goods manufacture is growing very fast. -
Vow mills arc building and worsted machinery is
getting imported from abroad and set a-running
This has already created a brisk demand right here
10 home fer all the long wool that can be found
The Canadian farmers arc having fine times in con-
.rguonce. British and American spinners are
~gcrly competing for every pound they have 20
.cll and prices arc at high-water mark.
Such thon, are the facts that settle conclusively
what sort of wool we should talc 10 raising here in
Tennessee especially IN East Tennessee among our
hills and mountains. We will present summary
Ist Tho making Of worstea goods has got a strong
tart already in The United States, is found TO be
profitable is rapidly increasing, and is morally GER
tain 10 Become Of great magnitude and TO be steady
2d. Very littlo combng wool IS grown in the
United States. The supply for our American ma
.hirery comes from Europe and from Canada at a
o.sl OF So TO 20 cents pound, at a time when ane
morino wool fetchos little if anything above forty
cents.
3D. England and Canada are the only countries
bon tho whole world that produce any combing-wool
FL, speak Of; while sevcn-eighths Of all the great
wo5Igrowing countries on tho globe DO raise fno
woods.
ith These facts make il certain that for the next
two or three generations there can not possibly be
,o, much long wool go. upon the market. The
British ana the American worsted mills, between
lbom will give sure sale at paying prices for long
term OF years
Tho short way to get long-woolod flock is by
.ros5iug Leicester or Cotswold rams upon large
framed mcrino owes. This viii soon stock Us with
Che choicest material for making worsleds and de-
Iinae