The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-05-05
The Wool Trade.

In6 price Oh hll Minus VI WOOt hro US
ow as they will probably touch this
season and are lower than they were at
any corresponding period last year,
with tendency to a small advance.
Prices fluctuatc somewhat and establish
ell rates cannot be looked for befoy Q
June. The WOODEN goods being mo .nu-
featured this spring require a higher
grade Of wool, aud the nam demand
this season will be for tbis grade OF
fleece. This has caused demand for
Australian woods. Vermont Merino
woods are not particularly sought for.
Vermont sheep are raised chiefly for
bree ding purposes, the fleece being
greasy, with consequent shrinkage
when secured. For unwashed YER
IN ont fleeces, dealers arc paying from
23 to rs cents per pound and fol. washed
So to 81 cents. Fine grades arc we'll
held, with probable continuation of
present prices. The Vermont clips
will aggregate about l ,0O0, 900 pounds,
av eraging about 10 pounds to sheep.
Considerable quantities are !sent TO
ma rket from other New England states,
though they send but little strictly
fine grades 10 market. Maine and
New Hampshire send about as much
each TO market as Vermont, yet the
sheep average only from 6 TO pounds
each. Massachusetts, does not sell over
500 UU POUNDS OF nne wool. Inc out
look, for farmers on fine wool grades..o
Vermont wool is as good as usual,
with prospect of firm prices, though
perhaps without marked advances.
A considerable portion Of the fine
fleeces sold thus far this spring have
been taken In large lots by leading New
England and New York mills, and some
Of the. holders of Ohio wool in the Dos.
ton market have refused offers which
they would have accepted ten days ago
Manufacturers are purchasing to fail
extent, the sales of all kinds last weel
amounting to l,99S,7Oo pounds. Hold
ers are free sellers at current rates al
they are DESTROYS of closing up ole
stocks as far as possible. Fine WOOL
are fast disappearing, and good X fleece
are now comparatively scarce. Abou
as high a price can be obtained for an \
fleece as can DO obtained for Xxx ant
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has been obtained on account of tn,
scarcity of choice lots of this descrip
ton. Manufacturers seem to be in
different about future supplies and arr
purchasers only at what may be consid
cred comparatively low flgurers. New
wool is opening comparatively high il
Texas, Kentucky and California. Ii
foreign woods business is light, Austria
Ian remains quite steady, with sales al
As and 46 cents. III Montevideo the
sales have been at Sc cents, or about *
cents the secured pound. In Cape anc
carpet woods nothing of any conse
quencc has been done. The imports O
wool for the week have been 1921 bales
domestic, and GO bales foreign, ogains
2l87 bales domestic 5144 bales foreign
for the corresponding week last year
The receipt of wool continue to increas,
in fully as great q ratio as the sales
The total reported sales of wool in Bos
ton from January l, 1882, 10 the pres
ent time have been 34,957, 100 pounds
against 3l.1s9, 900 pounds for the cor
responding period of 1881, an increas,
of 3,76S, 100 pounds. The receipts sine,
January l, 1882, TO The present tim
have been SO, l96 bales domestic, an,
1929 bales foreign. against as, lO5 bale
domestic and $40 bales foreign, for tn
Oamo period TO 1881 net increase O
II. 09l bales of domestic, and $40 bale
foreign. or Is, 1881 bales in all.
The New York wool market 10 with
out change in any particular. There
the same cautious buying, the mann fac
turers taking only such quantities a
they may want TO carry them alon,
without admitting of: accumulation
AS rule these are free sellers, but u,
asRafsG ssa 81 2 Is new Clip pTFSbAp
the usual inclination to abide develop
ments and is the main reason for tn
present inaction. The following i
brief are the New York sales: Secures
Texas, 4Oa50; spring California, II l..
a27; fall Texas, 17a25 1.2; fall, Califor
mia, 16 cents.
The Boston wool market may b,
quoted as follows: New England
washed, combing and delaine, 46a4Sc
unwashed, 2SaSoc; washed medium
fine, 44a45c; unwashed medium fine
2SaS0c; washed, medium coarse, S3sS5c
unwashed Medium coarse, 2Sa25c
washed fine Merino, 4oa42c; unwashet
fine merino, S5s37c; tnb washed ,40a41c
super pulled woods, 4Sa60c; Ohio an,
Pennsylvania feeces, * and Xxx, 42a44c
Michigan and Wisconsin fieeces, 40a41c
and unwsshed and unmeac hantabl
fleeces 28a80.