18 Information concerning WooL 



ings and cheapest wool hats and carpets, also require 

 these cheap and heavy fleeces. 



It is well known, that no nation has ever assisted 

 their manufactures and business in general, so effectu- 

 ally as the English, by breeding animals suitable to 

 the various objects and purposes. As we are to hold 

 competition with them we must do the same. 



It is believed, on repeated examination and consi- 

 deration, that these ideas about heavy fleeces of coarse 

 wool are founded in absolute truth, and highly impor- 

 tant to our manufactures of strongs useful and coarse 

 woollens y and especially of all xvorsted stuffs and worsted 

 hosiery, as this wool can, nearly all, be prepared by 

 the comb — not by the card, Callimancoes, shalloons, 

 rattinets, durants, tammies, camblets, moreens, bom- 

 bazetts, bombazines, xvorsted hosiery, caps and mit- 

 tens, and other useful goods can only be made of wool 

 long enough to be combed. The Merino and other fine 

 wool cannot be combed. It must be carded and is fit 

 only for woollen, not worsted goods. 



JVoteSy on Wool and Kersey. 



The last paper treated of the twilled three point 

 woollen blanket. It may be useful to add, that it is 

 certain, that if a parcel of wool were collected in the 

 United States, no better than the \Norst fourth part of 

 the average quality of our native fleeces (unimproved 

 by the Merino) that wool would be found better than 

 the quality of the wool of the excellent three point 

 blankets imported from England. Such worst quar- 

 ter part of our wool would not be too long for blankets. 



