Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-24
Sheep Jnterest.
THE MERINo QUESTION AGAIN.
TContinued.1

/ lilc 90 GulledS 10 WiIlCn Cullcu dltcH-
ton. But Mr.. Chapman is not satisfied
to try and pull little wool over the
eyes of your readers he intended to bury
them, for the false statement in regard
to the value of the 200 guineas would
buy enough to accomplish his object.
Can it be that he has got so far in his
second childhood that he does not know
the value of guinea? If so, with pity
we will look upon him.
Then come extracts from letter from
Australia-what are required are the
true Vermont; do not venture on French
blood. This, think, is very misleading !;
but when one stops moment to think
it looks quite plain that the father con-
templated getting more French blood,
but wished his sons opinion be-
fore he committed the terrible deed.
am sorry that the unwise secretary
of the breeders association has compell-
ed me to speak of the matter of California
scab. But it is only one of the drawbacks
he has submitted the members to. Calfor-
mia has good deal of scab; Vermont but
little. California has but few flocks free
from it; Vermont has many, and am told
the little she has now is confined to the
sheep in theVermont Register constructed
by getting in coarse-wool rams in the hope
of making the Spanish Merino pay in
some way. But there is rigid restriction,
and buyers need not feel timid. defy
Mr.. Chapman to find anything but clean,
healthy sheep among what he terms cross
bred.
"On which Mr. Dimmock quotes were
not Rambouillette." As there has been
so much said about my quoting and mis-
leading in this matter will now say
that the editor of the Register had it in
print, taken from the Standard, the most
reliable paper published in BueTos
Ayres, of date Sept. 2l, 1889. Now if
this South American breeder knew the
blood of his sheep and so advertised
them, and the Standard published it
straight, some one must be little crook
We will now turn into a by-path; per-
chance we may find something that will
help US in the search for truth. Yes !;
some one has dropped the Register of
Dec. 20, 1899; and we read, under the
head of "The Free-Wool Question, and
find the drift of the article TO be that the
manufacturers want free wool, and that
the boys at Washington better mind
what the author is saying, or they wont
have another chance at the speakership; ;
and he also wants to know "if this ever
lasting effort to cheaper everything is the
best for the nation. For my part
should should say, yes, with the excep-
ton of wool and the secretary of the
sheep register. can't see the necessity
of cheapening them.
But it is useless to proceed further this
way, for on picking up back number of
the Press we find that as early as Octo-
Der over 500 of the largest manufacture
ers, from 30 States, met at New York
and demanded protection: and as the
delegate to Washington did not make
any notes, it may be of interest to all
your readers if | give few. OF course
| attribute the memorial gotten up by
the article written by Mr.. Chapman Dec.
20, 1889; therefore move that his salary
be raised. This is special dispatch from
Washington to the Press, dated Jan 3:
Free traders have had another series of
setbacks to-day. Wool manufacturers
and wool growers, representing the
greatest establishments the country pos
sesses, appeared before the House WAYS
and means committee and protested
vigorously against any further reduction
in the tariff upon the material which
they respectively raise and produce.
President William Whitman of the Ma
tiOnal association of Wool Manufacture
ers, together with other representatives
of this gigantic industry, fired the hot
test kind of shot into the ranks of the adj
vOcates of free wool. The former pre-
scented memorial from the National as
ISOLATION, adopted at its convention held
in New York in October and signed by
over 800 of the biggest manufacturers in
thirty States pleading for adequate pro-
lection at the hands of Congress, but de-
nouncing in the strongest terms the
attempt to make wool free. Representa-
tives of many firms were present and de
livered powerful arguments.
"Mr. Dimmock neglects to inform
the readers of his article that the hun.
dreds obtained were the national dollars
of the country, worth at that time only
about 10 cents in gold" Can it be pos
sible that sane man would make such a
statement;if so, he must think the breed
ers are all fools. What matters it wheth
er gold is at a premium of 10 cents OF
So; would not the comparison of Sll;
for Spanish rams to S572 for French
rams sold for the same paper remain
the same? And that is the only thing
/ called your attention to. | must con
fess thus early in the journey that
am little discouraged. | fear the ar
ticle am in quest of cannot be found