420 QUALITY OF THE CLOTH PRODUCED. 



Another fact shaws the higher relative quality and 

 value of the Glasgow yarns and power-loom cloths. The 

 number of power-looms, and the yards of cloth manufac 

 tured by each loom in the two places, is as follows : 



X T f Yards of cloth Yards woven by 



* o. of power-looms. WQven per day&amp;gt; each looin 



Glasgow, 25,000 625,000 25 



Lowell, . 9,360 352,000 37| 



So that the quality of the Lowell cloth is such that a 

 loom will weave 37-| yards a day, while of the Glasgow 

 cloth it will weave only 25 yards.* That is, supposing 

 the looms to ply their tasks with equal rapidity, the 

 Glasgow calicoesf and printing cloths contain 37^ threads 

 in the same space winch is filled up by 25 in the Lowell 

 fabrics. 



I presume that a similar difference prevails generally 

 between the productions of the Manchester and Ameri 

 can looms, excepting in so far as the former are employed 

 in producing coarse fabrics for the home and colonial 

 markets. 



Now the deduction which I wish the reader to draw, 

 and which I think he will draw from this comparison, 

 is, that New England is employed almost solely in pro 

 ducing coarse and inferior goods, in which the quantity 

 of raw material is great, and upon which the labour 

 expended is comparatively small. The goods which it is 

 of importance to us to produce are those into the price of 

 which labour enters to the extent of from 50 to 80 per cent 

 of the whole cost. Such goods Glasgow chiefly makes, and 

 such goods Lowell does not ; and none of the American 

 manufacturers can yet make them so as to come into suc- 



* Of No. 14 yarn, the Lowell looms actually produce on an average 

 45 yards a day ; and of No. 30 yarn, 33 yards. 



t Something of the still youthful character and primitive habits of 

 the females of New England and of New York State may be gathered 

 from the fact, that our twopenny or threepenny calico is usually called 

 muslin among them. 



