The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-15
Sheep Snfcrest.
The Price of Wool.


EdiOr RegiStcr and JOUWdi Il no.
tice in the West Cornwall items in your
last issue that farmers edo wonder if it
paws to raise wool and sell it at 10 cents
a pound" | would like to ask the
farmers who and what is the cause of
their selling wool at 10 cents, or who
set the price at 10 cents? Was it not
the farmers themselves? AS long as
the annual shearinS at Nliddlebury, the
conversation among the farmers was,
"Are you going to sell your wool for
T. or 10 cents. They say it is all they
are going to pay this year." and such
like, when in fact not single buyer in
Addison county had said single word
about l. or 10 cents or even asked q
man to sell his wool at any price. At
the same time the buyers stood by and
heard the conversation and learned the
price from the farmers. Thus they
came out, as Mr.. Twitchell has, and
says, We will pay 10 cents for wool !;
and | for one would call man fool
to pay more after he heard it said that
IL cents was all they expected.
E. 5. WRIGHT.
We fear our correspondents theory
is not quite right The fact seems to
us to be that the quantity of wool in
the market and the demand for it are
such that IL cents or thereabouts is the
highest price buyers can pay and stand
a fair chance of coming out of their
transactions whole. The "City Arti-
Gle" of the Boston JoU1Hdl of Friday
last gave these figures for unwashed
woods:
The sales of unwashed woods show a
considerable increase over previous
weeks, amounting to $4,000 pounds of
all kinds. The sales include $500
pounds Texas, of which 10000 pounds
sold at Is cents, 900 pounds at II
cents, 10000 pounds at - cents and
1000 pounds on private terms. The
transactions in territory wool have
been 2l9,3oO pounds for the week, and
include 29,3OQ pounds Montana at p
cents, 5000 pounds fine at 10 cents,
$1,000 pounds fine at l6 - cents, 5000
pounds medium at Il cents, 1000
pounds at lG cents, and $1,000 pounds
at . to % cents and - 900 pounds fine
at - to II cents per pound. In Geor-
\gia wool sales of $4,000 pounds OH pri-
Eate terms. In unwashed and unmer-
charitable teeces the sales have been
421, 500 pounds, and include 10000
pounds Ohio at 81 cents, 5000 pounds
at 20 to - - cents, 5000 pounds at
p L. cents, 10000 pounds at II to a
cents, 5000 pounds at , cents, j,O0O
pounds at - to 20 cents, 2OOO pounds
al - cents, 1900 pounds at II to -
cents, 10000 pounds at 10 to 20 cents,
10000 pounds at lG to IS cents, lO2, O0C
pounds at - to u cents and 500U
pounds at ~ cents per pound,
The latest Texas paper received con-
tans lists of sales from which we
quote tins paragraph.
B. Oppcnheiner N 60. received Al
bags, and sold 30 bags six months me-
dunn at Is IL cents; five bags medium
Is 3-i cents; thirty-one bags, fine,
IT 81 cents; torty-four bags ditto,
bright, IL = cents; nine bags mixed
grade, T. months, at 16 cents and 81
bags good medium to fine, > months
at II 81 cents; 10 bags six mos, fine.
at 10 cents.
All the figures given above tend to
show that the buyers pay about what
they can afford to pay. If our farmer.
held their wool ut 20 cents, we fear they
would be obliged to keep it some time
Ours is Il great country, especially SC
when considered as wool.producing
country; and any stand which the
farmers of Addison county, or Of Yer
mont, or, indeed, of all New England
might take on the wool question, would
have but slight effect on the marke
price of that product.
Sheep and wool are capable of grea
Improvement, and the shepherd who il
most successful in this work is the on,
who will make the most money out O
the business. When there are two
elements to be improved it gives
wider scope for the farmer to tax hi
taste and ingenuity in breeding up
When by constant attention to the i'm
provement of his sheep breeder ha
secured an animal having heavy high
grade fleece, on a well developed car
cass, he will have about the most prot
liable animal that can be kept on tn
farm. National StOc&man and Farm,
En-.