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pure wholesaler; the corn factor sold to domestic manufacturing 

 wholesalers and to exporting merchants; the Blackwell factors sold 

 to three classes — purely wholesale drapers, exporting merchants, and 

 domestic manufacturing tradesmen, the clothiers. The Blackwell 

 factors were factors for the Leeds factors, and entertained a double 

 relation to the western clothiers. 



The corn wholesale group embraced a variety of manufacturers, 

 differing in this respect from wool which was manufactured either in 

 the household before it passed into the hands of middlemen, or by the 

 clothiers. The malster dealt wholesale with the brewer and also 

 acted as exporting merchant. The differentiation of the woolens 

 draper from the merchant was a specialization peculiar to this trade. 

 There was a greater variety of retailers in the corn trade than in the 

 other trades for the reason that the ware was transformed into a 

 variety of forms in the hands of the manufacturing wholesalers and 

 specialized retailers arose to handle each form. 



