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"It has been asked of manufacturers, ' What is the most 

 pressing necessity of your manufantue?' and answered, ' We 

 want more domestic wool ; ' but I would say, we want more 

 domestic wool improved to suit the manufacturer. There 

 are forty- six mills in the United States that use foreign wool 

 entirely, and seven hundred and sixty- seven that use botli 

 domestic and foreign wool, or nine hundred and thirty-one 

 mills using seventy per cent, of foreign wool. Would man- 

 ufacturers import wool if they were supplied at home with 

 the various kinds they want to use ? They would not. 



" I have condensed the uses of wool into three classes 

 from Mr. J. L. Hays 7 report to the Department of Agricul- 

 ture in 1872. Merino wool is used in opera arid common 

 flannels, blankets, shawls, shirts, vests, skirts, drawers, car- 

 digans, hose, fancy cassi meres, meltons, overcoatings, light 

 coatings, fancy cloakings, some varieties of delaines, co- 

 burgs, cashmeres, ladies' dress goods, and all mixtures of 

 wool with shoddy ; the longest and finest Merino wools are 

 used to carry wool substitutes. The peculiar excellence of 

 Merino wools is found in the soundness and strength of all 

 goods they are used in. 



'' Combing wools are used in shawls, fancy knit goods, 

 ladies' fancy cloakings, serges, moreens, alpacas, cloth lin- 

 ings, mohair lusters, lasting, damasks for furniture, furni- 

 ture covering, curtains, table-cloths, reps for furniture and 

 curtains, webbing for reins, girths, suspenders, flags, mili- 

 tary sashes, cords and tassels, nubias, braids, bindings, etc., 

 etc. 



" Coarse wools are used in common flannels, blankets, also 

 the noils of combing wool. The warps of ingrain carpets, 

 two or three-ply, consume our coarsest long wools; the 

 shortest stapled coarse wools are used for filling. 



" We should grow in Kentucky best pure Lincolnshire 

 Cotswold, Ramboullet Merinos, and Southdowns, and cross 

 them on our native sheep and each other until we establish 

 new races. Kentucky stands fourteenth in the number of 



