Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-04-21
The Wool Essscrcsr.

The following extract from tht
speech of Hon. William Lawrence, 0
Ohio, in the House Of Representatives
on the question of tariff aud prices 0
Wool and Wollens, is worth perusal
Before the war, our tariff on WOO
was so low that wool growing in thi.
county was almost abandoned. Oul
manufacturers, relying only or mainl,
on the foreign market tor wool, i,
which they had to compete with tor
| eign manufacturers as buyers, were a
the mercy OF the foreign producers o.
importers. Tho importers, having I
monopoly of the market, controlled
prices to suit themselves, by combina
nations when necessary. But the great
demand for army goods during the
| war stimulated the American produc
ticn Of wool; and in 1867 we found
| our tlocks had so increased as to be
sufficient in number to supply more
than the ordinary demands OF the PEG
pie. There was an production
OF wool. To prevent the destruction
OF this great branch OF industry, the
wool tariff of 1867 was enacted. And
the result is now, Mr.. Chairman, tina,
under existing laws, we are furnishing
to the people OF this county cheap
wooden goods, and it cannot be claim
ed that it IS necessary to admit wool
duty-trec i'll order to encourage the
existing manufactures. II the tariff
were removed, two effects would fol.
low: First, we should annihilate the
wool growing interest of our country,
producing more than $60,000,000
worth OF wool annually; and secondly,
we should give to the foreign produc-
err the control Of the market. The
prices o. wool would not be any less
TO the manufacturer N a year after the
new order of things, and we would ex-
port $50, 100000 in gold to buy wool
which we ought to produce at home.
Our Industries, diversified by the
home production Of wool, would suf-
fer by the destruction OF our wool pro-
duet, and foreign manufacturers again,
as in 1860, would control the market
for wooden goods and put up prices,
as then, to higher figure than now"
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RusTY NAILS AND AppLEs.-Many
people believe that by driving nails in
to the body OF apple trees they are
coaxcd, or driven, or innoculated INTO
bearing. Absurd as the idea is it has
its intelligent advocates. And it is
said that down in Illinois man went
among the farmers selling a receipt
for rustsng the nails previous to driving
them to add to their efficacy, and
what is more, he found some people
foolish enough to buy. One OF those
advocates OF iron clad fruit was recent.
~ detailing what he knew of the
wonderful efficacy Of nails at the roots,
when Young man from New Hamp-
shire except the ball rolling aud
brought down the house by asserting
to the doctrine in story: He says
that an uncle of his manufactures a
large quantity CT Maple sugar. To
facilitate the business, he formerly
drove large nails into his trees, upon
which to hang his sap buckets. The
effect was that his sugar naples i'm.
mediately began to bear enormous
crops of apples, and he was compelled,
in order to restore flow OF sap to
draw the nails from his trees. this
fact is important" as going to show that
a maple viii not produce both apples
and sugar.
READING FOR FARMERS BoYs.-An
intelligent and thrifty farmer says:
But for the cooperation of my boys,
I should have tailed. | worked hard,
and SO did they. The eldest 10 nearly
twenty-one, and while other boys in
the neightorhood younger have lett
their parents, mine have stuck to me
when l most needed their services.
Il attribute this result to the fact
thet have tried 10 make home pleas
snt tor them. have furnished them
with attractive and useful reading;
and when night comes, ard the days
labor is ended, instead of running to
the railroad station and adjoining
towns, they gather around the great
lamp, and become absorbed in books
and papers"
Such is substantially the testimony Of
a farmer, who has known how hard
the struggle for footing on tree soil,
without capital, is, and how valuable,
and comparatively cheap are the aids
which good reading brings to them.
lex.
How TO SECURE Coon OARS FOR
SEEr.-A correspondent of the Coun-
try Gentleman says: "Place your oats