Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-08
PERSONAL MEN TION.

reunionists who left for Boscobel Tues
day.
Hon. Geo. Clementson and Mrs. Glenn
entson paid Chicago a visit the past
week.
j. NJ. Briggs of Mineral Point was
visitor to this city the early part of the
present week.
Jim DAILY, whose dulcet tones were
wont to awaken interest in 1.-The Singer
is now engaged as general agent with
the Whitehill Company, of Milwaukee.
Jim and the company were equally for
tunate.
MIR and Mrs. Nathan, accompanied
by Mr.. Joseph Nathan. left for Chicago
last Thursday. The old people will re-
main in Chicago several weeks visiting
with their son, Mr.. Adolph Nathan. Mr..
10 Nathan returned Friday, being alb
sent hardly long enough TO be missed.
Mr.. j. ID. Jones, known to many in
this section as the gentlemanly general
agent of the Singer Sewing Machine
Co., now occupies the position of Supt
of Agencies of the Whitehill Manufac-
turing Company of Milwaukee, situa-
ton for which his extended experience
and business qualities well fits him.
THE vanguard of the spring wool clip
is making its appearance on the market
but buyers so far are about as numerous
as the wool teams. There is quite a
marked difference shown this season be-
tween fine and coarse wool owing to the
demand for fine cloth in place of the
coarser suitings so fashionable in years
past. The following extracts on this
staple are taken from little pamphlet
issued by Messrs. w. C. Houston Jr., &
Co., Philadelphia, and will doubtless
prove of interest.
'ln any given section or State all the
woods are bought at about the same
figure, whereas one clip will often be
worth five cents per pound more than
another, on account of its growth and
condition.
BY growth is meant the length,
strength and elasticity of the staple, the
working properties of the wool, and
whether it is healthy and of good grade,
or weak, coarse, and of wild and ''frow-
sy'' character BY condition is meant
whether the iieeces are light and bright,
or heavy with grease or dirt, or dark in
color. Condition relates chiefly to
shrinkage in securing for goods. The
more fleece loses in securing, the less
it is worth to manufacturer, on account
of the smaller percentage of clean wool
it yields 1t can readily be seen that
poor or heavy comptition may overcome
the advantages of good growth. Wool
may be of good growth, like some breed
ers' clips of well-bred Merino, but heavy
with grease, and therefore in poor con-
dition. And similarly, wool may be
light and bright Gin good condition, }
but having wild, coarse or weak staple,
will be of poor growth. IL a fleece is
wild and poorly grown, it will only go
into low priced goods. no matter how
light it is, so that poor growth may
counterbalance good condition. Good
growth (sound, healthy staple) and
good condition Ga light. bright fleece
make up the first requisites of good wool.
The growth and condition depend on
care and intelligence in breeding, and
also considerably on the locality where
the wool is grown. In wild or prairie
sections the wool is apt to be "brashy,"
(weak staple and of wild growth and
rs generally discolored by the soil; while
in localities more under cultivation the
wool is apt to be of better growth and
brighter. This is one of the reasons
why Ohio produces better wool than
Wisconsin or Minnesota. AS the land
f section is brought more under cul-
tivation, the woods improve"
They say further Zine woods, well
bred and in good condition promise to
be in good demand, but it should be re-
membered that Australian woods are
now selling at prices that forbid any de-
cided advance in our fine fleeces unless
there is a corresponding improvement
| abroad.
Medium woods will be much sought
after and have the advantage of not suff-
ering from competition of any foreign
growth.
Common wool is likely to move freely
but at low prices On account of the
low grade, the wool can be used only in
the coarsest goods"