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GENESEE FARMER. 



JtTLY. 



where an advance of 20 cents per lb. was ob-j desire to be wool-gi'owers, and thus acquire for 



tained by a manufacturer of satinets, for wool of themselves the united profits of the farmer, the 



a quality too good for his purposes. So also the | merchant, and the manufacturer. 



makers of Mousselin-de-laines purchase -large j The history of commerce shows that, with few 



quantities of wool, in order to select from it only ; exceptions, this jumble of different pursuits is fa- 



that which has sufllcicnt length of staple to suit u.^] ^q prosperity. 



their purijose. The residue is disposed of to oth- 1 ](■ tUp mfnufa 



If the manufacturer, by the force of circurn- 



ers. A com])aiiy can be named who annually i stances,-' is nevertheless conjpelled, to some 



use 200.000 lbs. to select from 



ex- 



I tent, to jxursue this course, he will not transfer an 



Those manufacturers that require the best and ; accumulation of to him useless wool, to a brother 

 the finest wool for their goods, are compelled, nianuftxcturer, without a profit ; and whatever 

 under the existing practice, to buy vast quanti- j that profit may be, it is so much abstracted from 

 ties of wool unsuited to their purpose. An es- the profit of the wool-grower. 



tablislnnent can be named that has 150,000 lbs 

 of wool thus obtained now on hand, and which 

 they will gladly return to the farmer at cost. — 

 The Middlesex Company use annually one mil- 

 lion pounds of wool : what then must be the 

 amount of surplus wool purchased by them? 



Again — whatever retards the prosperity of the 

 woolen factories, abates measurably the profits of 

 the flock-master ; and among the various hin- 

 drances to the growth and extension of this de- 

 ' I scription of manufactures, none has been more 

 potent in its baneful influence than the known 



A Vermont manufiicturer of l)road-cloths pur- 1 and acknowledged fact, that an enormous amount 

 chased a lot of wool in Dutchess County : among , of capital is requisite to ensure success. I hope 

 it was some wool brought from his own immcdi- |to be able to show, by and by, that it is for the 

 ate neighbors, and which he could have purchased j interest of the wool-grower to do all in his pow- 

 before it left home, if it had suited his st3-le of | er to lessen this evil, and bring the cotton and 

 goods, v,'ithout paying a price for it enhanced by [the woolen manufacturer more nearly to a level. 



the profits of two factors through whose hands it 

 had passed, and the expense of the journey to 

 Dutchess County and back. The manufacturer 

 must be paid for this useless employment of cap- 

 ital. He is paid : even ihougli unwittingly, he 

 is paid by the flock-master. 



I have collected numerous facts to sustain the 



The 1.50,000 lbs. of wool referred to has cost 

 the company not less than .52,500, a very nice 

 sum to lie perfectly idle for more than a year. — 

 The bare mention of the fact will convince any 

 one tliat this company will readily pay more than 

 it now does for the description of wool it actually 

 wants, if he can be saved an outlay so enormous 



position I have taken ; but one has recently come and at the same time so unnecessary 



under my notice so conclusive, that I select it in 

 preference to others for this purpose. A lot of, 

 wool amounting to several thousand pounds was 



I remain yours, &c., 



.1. B. N. 



Immense Natural Beehive. — In a cavern, 



put up in the manner complained of, in 1844, but on the right bank of tlie Colorado, about seven 

 was not sold till 1845, and was then sold without miles from Austin, there is an immense hive of 



being sorted. The clip of the same flock for 1845 

 was put up as it ought to be — was also sold — but 

 sorted : a few hundred pounds of the coarser 

 fleeces, amounting to one-tenth ©f the quantity 

 put up in 1844, being separated. Both lots were 



wild bees. On a warm day a dark stream of 

 bees may be constantly seen winding out from 

 the cavern like a dark wreath of smoke. The 

 stream often appears one or two feet in diameter 

 near the cliff', and gradually spreads out like a 



purchased by the same manufacturer, in all re- j fan, growing thinner and thinner at a distance 

 spects under the same circumstances, except as I , fVom the cavern, until it disappears. The num- 

 have mentioned, and yet the last lot brought lOj^er of be^s in this cavern must be incalculably 

 cents per lb. more than the former. Both lots , gi-eai, probably greater than the number in a 

 were stapled and cleaned, and the real value of ! thousand or teii thousand ordinary hives. The 

 each determined by the manufacturer, under cir- j oldest settlers say that the hive was there when 

 cumstances which leave no doubt tliat the truth they first arrived in the country; and it is quite 



was fully and fairly ascertained and stated. 



probable that it existed in the same state many 



Those who take short-sighted views of things years previous to the settlement of this country, 

 may not see fully and clearly the injurious con- It was estimated that fliere are many tons of hon- 

 sequences of the evil here pointed out. They ey and wax in this immense hive ; and if its con- 



may say that under the present system, quite as 

 much if not more wool is purchased by the man- 

 ufacturer than would be purchased under any 

 other system — and if one class of manufacturers 

 accumulate large stocks of wool, that they do not 

 want, they can sell them to otliers who do. 



All this is undeniable. But the manufacturers 

 no moi"e de:iire to be wool merchants, than they 



tents could be extricated readily, they would 

 doubtless be found far more valuable than the 

 contents of any silver or gold mine that adventu- 

 rers have been seeking for years in that section. — 

 Texas Teh/graph. 



One hundred bushels of strawberries were re- 

 cently sold in Cincinnati, O., in one day. 



