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havt' guoil liuytTs tlu'if, niul yet I do not bflieve they always pay 

 full value for some of the wools they handle. The good wools have to pay 

 for the pool-. I tliink if Mr. Levering would block out a plan we might 

 be able to follow it. 



Mr. Houndtree: I can not see how the appointment of a wool inspfC- 

 tor Avould bcnt'tit the wool growers of Indiana, because the manufacturer 

 is the man who is going to decide what your wool is worth. Y!)U can 

 form no combination by which you can make your own prices, even if 

 you had such an inspection. I think we should raise the wool the manu- 

 factm-ers want, and if you do that and market it with the manufacturers 

 you are coming to a place where yon will get value for yoin- woiil. For 

 the past fotu' years I have been able to sell my wool at a good, handsome 

 profit. The wool I made a premium on was bought by the manufacturers 

 and they found that it shrunk K'. per cent, less than your average wool. 

 Send your wool to the manufacture rs where they know what is wanted. 



Mr. Strange: The thing that is against us is the (juestion of trans- 

 portation in doing what Mr. Roundtree suggests. If we had wool mauu- 

 fjH-tnrers in the State of Indiana we would have a better market for 

 our wool. Formerly all the glass of the comitry was manufactured in the 

 East. Now we have plenty of glass factories in the West, and especially 

 in oiu- own State. If we could get si)indles running in Indiana it would 

 mean to us Avliat the cotton mills that have been built tiiere mean to 

 the South. If we had the spindles running in Indiana we would 

 save the railroad tariff that is placed on every one of us. We pay it to 

 send the wools east, and then pay it again on the cloth that is sent back 

 to us. If we could have the si)indles running here in this State we 

 would sMvc all of tills. If there was any way in which we could encour- 

 age that we would promote the sheep growing interests of the State 

 largely. I'ut for us to get a central point at which to hav«' <iur wools 

 graded according to its (pnility does not seem to nu' any better than 

 our present system of selling wool. 



Mr. Keim: I know the Messrs. Merrit. who manufacture wool in 

 Indianapolis. If yon wish to visit their factory yon will tind a very 

 different state of affairs from that which existed ten years ago. The 

 class of wools they used ten years ago they do not now use at all. The 

 wools they are using in their factory are sconre<l territorial wool, very 

 fine, short wool. They liny tiieir wools from the territorii-s and buy it 

 .scoured. The w(»ols they liny from around here they ship to Boston. 

 All till' wool from our market in Montgomery County goes to Hoston. 

 I agree with .Mr. Strange thai if we could get this wool nninufa<'tured 

 right here in this State w >• would get inoie out of il. When I fake up 

 the Aim-rican Sheep Itiecder. or any Journal that devotes itself to the 

 d(>tails of the market. I liiid that in certain iiortioiis of Ohio and I'eimsyl- 



