THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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of the Woburn breed, of (he Ibllowing weights. 

 Seven and a lialf pounds deducted liom each 



one lor weiiilu of the breeching. 



No. 1 weighed 640 lbs. 



No 2 " 630 " 



No. 3 " GGO " 



No. 4 " 748 " 



No. 5 " S2i " 



The foliowini; jienllemen were present when 



the hogp were weighed. 



liev. Wm. (runn, Edmund Taylor, and Henry 



Savary. 



Two of the above hogs had been u.-?ed as boarp, 



and were three ye:irs old in JNlarcli laa.. Tiie 



01 her two were two years ohi in February and 



April last. Sam'l,. D. Martin. 



ed by an advantage over Englishmen of 33 per 

 cent. In other words, the goods which cost the 

 American manufacturer ten cents a yard, the 

 American coni^unier must pay him 13 cents (or, 

 belbre the ascending scale of profits will bccliecUed 

 by (breign coinpetilioii. In our judgment, the 

 agricultural interests of the country would show 

 little of the sagacity lor which the Yankees are 

 liimed, if they sliould be led to make farther sacri- 

 fices in (ijvor of manufiicturers. The spinning of 

 cotton is a business as firmly established in our 

 country as the grinding of wheat, and no more 

 needs protection. In truth it has a much broader 

 field of enterprise, and is less encumbered by 

 competition. The manufiicturing interest of our 

 country in all its branches has great reason to be 

 satisfied with its present position. Manufacturing 

 was never so healthy under the American system 

 as it has been since that system was overthrown. 

 At no period in our history have the prospects of 

 our manufacturers been so good as they are at 

 this moment. The mushroom growth of esta- 

 blishments has in a great measure ceased. Men 

 who know nothing of manufiicturing have learned 

 to abstain from it. The same prudential princi- 

 ples have been found applicable to this as to all 

 other branches of business. It has been learned 

 that, as in other avocations, so in nianufacturing, 

 a man must understand his business and manage 

 it himself. There is nothing which our manu- 

 facturers have to fear so much, as an abandon- 

 ment of these sound maxims, and a return to poli- 

 tical gambling fbr manufacturing prosperity. We 

 are glad to know that in all this we speak the 

 sentiments of the more intelligent portion ol' our 

 manuliicturers. There is no danger that those 

 who are now engaged in manul'acturing, will not 

 find domestic competition springing up li:ist enough 

 around them, without the stinmlants of a high 

 tariff. Nor is there any danger that the home 

 market fbr the products of agriculture, will not be 

 enlarged as last as the best interests of the 

 country require. The business of spinning cotton, 

 though recently depressed, has not at any moment 

 vvithm the last three years been carried on in well 

 regulated establishments at a very great loss. 

 And now such establishments are making good 



AMERICA AGAINST ENGLAND IN COTTON 

 MANUFACTURING. 



From tlie Journal of Commerce. 



The Monthly Chronicle, published at Boston, 

 contains an article prepared by Mr. Montgomery, 

 an Englishman practically acquainted with the 

 cotton manuliictures of England and the United 

 States. In connexion with the remarks of the 

 editor of the Chronicle, who also is learned in such 

 matters, the article presents a minute statement of 

 the comparative expense of manufacturing in both 

 countries, and proves that we have the advantage 

 and can make cotton goods 4 per cent, cheaper 

 than they can be made in England. These 

 statistics are of great value ; fbr they dissipate the 

 false opinion which has been inculcated so indus- 

 triously, that labor is vastly cheaper in England 

 than here, and that she, by means of the abject 

 poverty of her operatives, has the ability to over- 

 whelm and destroy our manufiicturers, unless they 

 are saved by high duties. There has been a great 

 deal written, and liicis have been abundantly 

 stated, proving the truth; yet some men high in 

 honor have not yet left ofi' talking about the 

 degradation which Americans must suffer if left 

 to contend unprotected against (he " pauper la- 

 bor" of Europe. The fact is, that American ma- , 

 nufacturers are able to pay the wao-es which have '• I"'ofi>s on all the goods they can turn out, and are 

 been so much complained of, and so enable our | "nable to keep pace with the demand. In the 

 laborers to maintain their own respectability and coming five years there will be a great increase of 

 thatof their families, and yet sell their fabrics all cotton factories in this country. This business 

 over the world cheaper than the English. In the will enlarge itself more, in all probability, thaa 

 supply of our own market with plain cotton (roods I "''Y «'l»er ; and the enlargement will be created 

 the advantage in favor of the American nTanu- i by the stimulant oi high profits. Since, then, 



the manufacturers have been placed in the very 

 best possible position, we trust they will be too 

 sagacious (o abandon it. 



We annex same extracts from the Chronicle 

 I article, taken from the Boston Daily Advertiser. 



I TTie Cotton Manufacture of the United States 

 I compared with that of Great Britain. 



lacturer stands about thus : — 

 Greater cheapness in prime cost of the goods, 



4 per cent. 

 Difference of interest, freight and 

 other charges of importation, 



Duty according to compromise, 



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The last number of the Monthly Chronicle con- 

 33 tains an analysis of an important work lately pub- 



It is proved by these facts, that neither thejlished at Glasgow; by "James Montgomery, 

 success of our manuliicturers, nor the honor of I superintendent of the York Factory, at Saco, 

 our laboring population, nor the furtherance of a ^ Maine." The author is an Englishman, and is 

 home market for the products of agriculture, | well acquainted witli^ the state of the cotton ma- 



require an increase of duty (or the purposes ol 

 protection. The American manuliicturer, as (he 

 matter will stand two years hence, will be protect- 

 Vol.. IX.-2 



nufacture in Great Britain, by many years' prac- 

 tical acquaintance with the business, and he has 

 also become ac()uainted with the state of the 



