The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-21
FARMERS COLUMN.
REVIVAL OF THE FINE WOOL
HUSBANDRY.
From the Rural New Yorker.


r. II possible that the tariff or other
causes will permanently retain fine wool
fplly up to the present prices This can
not reasonably be expected. This year,
owing to the rapid decrease OF sheep
during the past two or three years, the
domestic supply was greatly short OF the
demand. That supply, under the present
stimulus to production, will rapidly In
crease And the Buenos Ayres woods,
KENT ont of market this season by the vel
low fever at the city of Buenos Ayres,
will AGAIN compete with ours and-for
we NAV as well look the facts straight IN
the face-the competition will more OF
less affect our domestic prices.
The wool tariff was never intended or
expected by its trainers, or its sagacious
advocates, to be a prohibitory one, for
thew we'll knew such tariff could not
stand and ought not to stand. All they
asked Government to do was to impose
duties of the product of foreign growers
equal to the burdens sustained by the do
nestle grower in the duties and taxes di-
rectly or indirectly paid by him on the
things entering into wool production, so
that each party might meet on an equal
footing in our poTfs.
Our growers asked for fair play, but
not for charity They were willing to
nit their high priced labor against the
low priced labor of South America, rely
ING on their skill and industry for victory
in the struggle. That struggle will now
commence.
How is that skill and industry to be ex-
ercised? We answer, by more diversified
production, by the improvement OF our
Sheep, by more perfect utilization OF
all their valuable products, and by more
systematic, economical and judicious
modes Of sheep husbandry.
The principal portion of the Merinc
woods grown in our country, during many
years, has been Of the medium or coarser
grade, because heavier feeces can be OBJ
tanned with these than with the finer
kinds, and the latter have not fetched
enough more per pound in market tc
make up the difference. But this state OF
things is undergoing a change.
The finer domestic woods are very
scarce they are as we'll protected in pro
portion as the coarser grades; and con
SUMPTION Oh LuGuI 10 1uCl CdoluS anu NOulu
increase much more rapidly with sufti
cient domestic supply; and no good rea'
son is apparent why they should not
maintain the same relative superiority OF
prices over the lower grades they now
do Their production, sufficient to meet
the home demand, opens large margin
for our farmers yet to fill, without over
stocking the market with the kinds now
principally grown.
Should the growers of Merino wool, Land
all who under the stimulus Of the present
prices embark or re-embark in growing
it, confine themselves as generally as here
tofore to the production of the lower
grades, over production in those grades
must ultimately ensue and fiat market
result from domestic and not from foreign
competition.
Diversified production-the growth OF
staples adapted by all branches of wooden
manufacturers now or hereafter in our
country-is necessary for the largest and
most permanent expansion of this impor.
tant industry, and consequently to the
best interests of individuals and the
public.