Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-17
The Wool M.rhet.

furnished us BY the Napoleon WOolen
Mills. s.,,
We take the following from q cir
cular sent out BY Mr.. G. C. Keech, of
Sandusky, dated may Is, 1888:
Would say TO the wool growers,
wash clean, tie up not too tight wash
tags clean and dry them, and Iut into
the feeces; or what lie better, sell them
unwsshed at eight or ten cents pound.
A man who will put unwsshed tags in
Q fleece Of wool will steal Show me
q mans wool, and ! will give his true
character. If the record Of many q
pious mans wool could be brought
forward at the Judgment Day, how
many Of them would wish they could
get chance 10 wash their wool clean
in good water, in place of burning for
cheating in wool Let Bod Ingersoll
buy wool for six years, and he would
say, if there is no hell it is the great.
est mistake the Almighty ever made.
Without chance to burn some of
these cheats i'll wool, there don't seem
any way to get even with them. All
those who do not want to burn should
wash their-wool clean, put nothing but
clean wool in the fleece, put on just
twine enough to hold the fleece togeth.
er, and sell their wool when the mark
ct is fairly open. An honest wool
buyers and wool growers heaven will
be one of the whitest places in the
universe, while the cheats should roast
in hell with the greasy, dirty, mean,
low and contemplate wool they try to
work off. All those who wish to 90
to white heaven should make their
wool as white as snow, and get their
sins bleached out to the same color.
And the following Is taken
from circular sent out by Messrs.
W. G. Houston, Jr., & Co., of
Philadelphia. The rules and sugges-
tions laid down in this will regulate
the entire wool market, we are in.
formed: a..... ...' ......
We think we can safely make the
assertion that wool buying has been of
late years less profitable than was
formerly the case, and the trouble is
rightly attributable to the very fact
now under discussion, and the Difficult
ty is to find remedy. A western
operator cannot be expected. when
purchasing from farmers, to know the
exact shrinkage of each clip brought
him for sale, but he can if he is an ex-
perlenced and prudent buyer land
those who are not had better keep out
of the business) tell whether fleece is
well or prooly washed, if it is tied
with too much string or is stuffed with
unwashed or foreign matter. A care
full consideration of these points and q
persistent determination to only take
poorly washed f1eeces at a discount
will save many buyer from heavy
loss when the wool Is sold. We wish
we could only impress on every one
| the great Importance of this matter
1t should be borne in mind that the
times have changed and wool il
bought by all manufacturers on 9
stricter basis than was the case during
the flush period just succeeding the
war; there is no use in fighting against
it for it can't be beaten down, and il
western men will not take heed they
will lose money and rightly deserve to
| No man would buy wheat filed with
chaff or cookie at full price, but many
60 on year after year paying as much
for wretchedly washed and dishonest
ly put up fleeces as good wool is worth
and then when they lose money, there
is howl about buyers who are toe
particular or commission merchants
who allow too Liberal deductions wher
the whole blame lies at their owr
doors.
We have had wool sent us that il
would appear impossible for any sane
man to have bought for we'll washed
and then when money is lost on the
consignment we are blamed; on such
a lot we must lose shipper money in
spite of high prices, for the discounts
which he has neglected to obtain when
buying and which we have to allow in
selling, eat up the profits on the good
conditioned wool.
The question has been agitated,
whether it would not be better to have
the wool.clip Of the country marketed
in an unwashed state rather than sub.
nit to purchasing poorly washed wool
at full prices, and if 1t is impossible to
get growers to put up their wool bet.
ter we would strongly advise this
course; but it ought not to be necess
ary to resort to this measure. Far.
mers can, in nine cases out of ten
wash their sheep properly, if they
have q mind to, but as long as they
can sell large percentage of grease
at full prices they are not likely te
make any improvement IN this direc.
ton. The remedy lies in. buyers de-
clining to purchase any but we'll WASHED
fleeces at full rates, and strict ad
herence to this rule will soon brine
about the desired result. Let every
buyer commence at once to inform al
of the farmers he usually buys from
that, when the clip Of 1883 is brough
in, the following conditions will b.