WOOL INDUSTRY IN OUR NATIONAL ECONOMY. 



Believing that our State possesses superior advantages for the 

 production of v^ool and mutton ; that a well settled system of 

 sheep husbandry, uniformly and persistently followed, would con- 

 duce to our agricultural prosperity ; that our farmers generally 

 should give more attention to the growing of mutton and the 

 production of wool, and that this end will be promoted by a care- 

 ful reading of the same — I give herewith a most admirable article 

 on the part of the Wool Industry in our National Economy, con- 

 tributed to the Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Man- 

 ufacturers by lion. John L. Hayes of Boston, Mass., Secretary 

 to the Association and editor of its valuable quarterly journal 

 above named. The points taken up cover the whole matter thor- 

 oughly, are most intelligently treated, and the discussion of the 

 subject is not only interesting, but so valuable and complete as 

 to form an important contribution to the subject : and I take 

 pleasui'e iu transferring it to my report : — 



Great truths never become trite by repetition. The mountains 

 have stood unchanged in every outline of their gigantic features 

 since the primeval cataclysms which uplifted them from the abyss ; 

 yet in winter and summer, spring and autumn, in storm and calm, 

 in sunrise and sunset, how varying are they in aspect, — eldest 

 of created forms, yet for ever new ! One sermon, pronounced 

 eighteen centuries ago, embodies all that the ministers of the 

 church have preached for succeeding ages. Yet the truths of 

 Christianity will be always as new as the dawn of each day with 

 the same recurring sun. In the political campaign just ended, 

 the tens of thousands of speakers on either side have been effec- 



