The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-02-13
Wool and the Wool Intere SIS.

Wool and the Wool Interests.
One of the old Romans ended every
speech made to the Senate and people of
Rome with the emphatic remark Di-
lenda est Cartilage Carthage must be
destroyed. Following the example of
the illustrious Cato who was also con-
siderable OF farmer in his day, we es-
teen it our duty to repeat what we said
last week, and the week before Wool
must be groom for our own supply and at
the prices it is just as good paying az
ricutural produce as any in the land.
We do not expect to see the wild cxag-
geration in prices that ruled in 1864, '65
and &c, nor do we expect to see prices
for sheep go up to the heavy figures of
the famous Vermonters. But we be-
lieve that good, honest, well sustained
breeding establishments for rams and
ewes, Of both fine woods and long woods,
ought to pay. The difficulty is, to get
the agricultural experience and practical
knowledge, combined with good thorough
common sense, and some acquaintance
With the science of breeding, to manage
sach Establishments, and to keep up
focks to their very highest standa I'd of
perfection, like that Of the late Mr..
Webb, of Babraham, whose South Downs
became more valuable every year. When
We see it announced that Shropshire
ram, on account Of his breeding, his form,
his wool, his maturity and quality as a
sire, can be let or hired out for q year at
public sale, for 5000 of our currency,
in country where wool is low priced,
and fully stocked with sheep from Lands
End to John O'Groat's House, VIC may
be sure that it pays to improve our sheep
by the use Of the best rams to be obtain
ed. 1t is, therefore, our duty to direct
attention to this subject at oil times, at
all seasons and in all places. More cs.
pecially if We would retain the advantag.
es which the tariff gives to wool growers,
is it our duty to impress upon the farmers
of the great Northwest, that they must
endeavor to supply the demands of the
manufacturers, or the time will come
when the increasing wants of the com.
munity will say, 1--WE have stood aside
and given you sheep breeders all the ad-
vantages you could ask for long enough
-wo have suffered long enough-you
can't do what you have undortaken-you
have not grown wool enough to supply
the wants of the people-you must stand
on enc side, and permit US to furnish our
selves with supply"
There is heavy demand for long wool,
and it is grown nowhere but in Canada
and in Great Britain. The amount
grown in the United States is a mere
bagatelle compared to the wants of the
manufacturers. Were it inteligently
grown, and the sheep properly bred and
fed, it ought to, taking the wool and NUT
ton together, be the best paying live
stock in the country. But who grows
the long woods with regard to their wants,
and keeps up their properties, so that
each year there is improvement instead
OF deterioration, as in the case of the YER
mont Merinoes?
The wool market shows no alteration,
except that holders ore firm in asking an
advance on all grades of wool. The sup
plies expected from Australia are not
likely to arrive before they will be want.
ed for immediate consumption, and prob.
ably will not go into market at all. II
they do, prices will be governed by the
demands Of the Market which are be.
coming more stringent every week.
Country mills that have heretofore dc.
pending on exchanging goods for wool,
now find they have got to seek the East.
earn markets for supply of wool. The
opponents of the tariff are opening their
batteries on Congress already, and max
ing the most Of this state Of things. The
want of wool is referred to in the most
exaggerated terms. Yet we find, after
all, that the prices of domestic wool are
not forced up. Picklock, Ohio, has sold
during the past week at 70c in New
York, and Ohio and Michigan single ex-
ira at 63c. Combing delaine woods at
oec. These prices are not extraordina.
~, considering the feeling that has been
created for the purpose of influencing
Congress. Still they indicate that wool
has an advancing tendency.
The foreign markets are likewise very
firm, and at the Colonial sales, which
opened in London on the 23d of this
month, prices were two cents above those
paid at the sales Of Colonial woods made
last September. We do not fear the
importations of this year, and the free
trade men know that little change would
be effected in prices this year but we
have an eye to the future, and the chang
es proposed in the tariff would fall like a
wet blanket on newborn baby, on the
wool-growing interest, and kill out the
whole business, so that it would perish
from starvation, All the cries about
wooden mills, short time, and the machin-
cry rusting out, are simple pyrotechnics
designed to dazzle the eyes and the un.
derstanding Of Congressman, and are
very good displays of eastern ingenuity
endeavoring to get the better of the agri-
cultural interests, so that they can make
US western men good hewe-s of wood and
drawers Of water, while they ride round
in their carriages and go to saratoga on