62 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



ample guarantee of its entire accuracy. It is un- 

 doubtedly the most extended list of wool prices w^hich 

 has ever been made out in our country from reliable 

 data. The average, and not the extreme prices, for 

 each quarter are given. 



I have added a column, indicating the tariff laws 

 in force at the different periods. 



Let me preface the table by stating that I learn 

 from various sources that from 1800 to 1807 wool 

 bore a low and mostly a nominal price in our coun- 

 try ; that in 1807 and 1808 full-blood Merino wool 

 was worth about $1 a pound ;* that it advanced in 

 1809 to about $2 a pound,f and continued at not far 

 from that price during the war, some selling at $2.50 

 a pound ; that in 1815 it again sunk to a low price, 

 and so remained until 1824. 



* Colonel Humphreys, in a MS. letter lying "before me, says that he 

 sold for that price in 1807. 



f In 1809 Chancellor Livingston sold his unwashed full-blood wool 

 for $2.00; seven-eighths blood for $1.50; three-fourths for $1.25; 

 one-half blood for 75 cents ; common for 37 cents. 



PRICES CURRENT OF WOOL IN BOSTON. 



* The prices, it will be observed, arc not given strictly by quarters in the table 

 anterior to 1827. 



