VO 1.. XVI. NO. *9. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



381 



in the usual way, what per centage is lost by 

 cleansiiipr or scouring ? 



2il. Js German, or Sa,\oii wool lietter washed, 

 and tlie general condiiion hetter tl-.an American'( 

 wool .' rieaso state the condition of Spanish wool 

 also. 



3<l. Do the German wool-growers secure their 

 fleeces with twine, or by twisting a hand of wool .= 

 And which tnode is most acceptalde to the manu- 

 lactnrer .' 



4th. Is it not very common to find inside of 

 fleeces, shorn in this country, dung locks and trash 

 of all descriptions, entirely useless to the manu- 

 facturer .= Of, say 100 pounds, what per centai'e 

 is lost by purchasing, unknowingly , wool having 

 this trash with it ? Please state some of the most 

 glaring instances of frauds which have come to 

 your pPTSonal knowledge in this way. 



5tli. Are you not, in your purcliases of wool 

 very much influenced, in fi.ving prices by its con- 

 dition, — whether well washed or badly washed, 



if so, would not the difterence yqu allow amply 

 compensate, and more, the farmer for the extra 

 time required in washing his wool well ? 



6th. Will protection, or sheltering of sheep, im- 

 prove the quality of the fleece ? 



ufacturers. For the last three years the loss in 

 our stai)ling room on American wool has been 

 1 1-2 per cent.; this includes clippings, twine, 

 dirt, &c. 



6lli. I believe protection in winter is essential 

 to the production of fine wool, especially in this 

 hard climate. My acquaintance with wool-grow- 

 ers in this country is very extensive, and I do not 

 know a single instance of Jine wool being pro- 



than most of the lands in the neighborhood of 

 Camden, and not better than ranch which is now 

 sufl^ered to lie waste in our country. That from 

 the very beginning it paid him a good profit, for 

 the money expended in the purchase, and all the 

 manure and labor bestowed upon it, although 

 some of it, in consequence of its immediate vicin- 

 ity to Camden, cost him sixty-five dollars per 

 'I'll ■ ■ 



- ■■ . I acre. I hat bis crops kept every year increasing 



duced without sheltermg the sheep. Besides the in quantity, qmilitv, an.l value, until he was in- 

 quab.y of the wool, there are many other consid- duced to keep ai, account of them, and of the 

 erations why sheep should he sheltered; and first, sums realized .fr.,m the sales of his various crops 



Boston, May 1, 1838. 



Dear Sir — Absence from home a number of 

 weeks, is my apology for so long a delay in re- 

 plying to yotir highly esteemed favor of the 2Sth 

 March. 



In reply to your queries, I have to say — 



1st. The average loss by scouring American 

 wool is 34 1-2 per cent. 



2d. The average by same process on German 

 wool is 24 per cent. Some of the liest clips in 

 Saxony will not shrink over 16 per cent, but the 

 wool is accommodated, (technically called) — that 

 is, the skirts and head' of the fleeces taken off. — 

 Spanish wools are scoui-ed with soap after being 

 shorn ; as we take them, they shrink about 10 per 

 C£nt. The wools from New South Wales are of 

 the Saxon family, the stock having been carried 

 from Germany ; they yield about 70 per cent, of 

 clean wool. 



3d. The wools from the most celebrated flocks 

 in Germany are packed in bales weighing about 

 400 lbs. each, — the fleeces never done up singly, 

 but spread flat against each other, — there is no 

 twine about thein. This mode cannot he adopted 

 in tins country for a long time, till which, let the 

 fleeces be secured by a gentle twist of the tail ; — 

 if your neighbors cannot make it out to their 

 minds, let me refer them to my excellent friends, 

 H. D. Grove or Daniel Rogers, of Hoosack, who 

 ivill relieve them at once. 



4th. The practice of enclosing in the fleece, 

 dippings, &c. is too common, and should be dis- 

 ;buraged by manufacturers. I have known six 

 lUnces of this useless stufl^ taken from one fleece. 

 There is another practice equally disgraceful — the 

 se of five to twenty times as much twine as is 

 ecessary. A short time since, I took sixty-six 

 eet of large twine from one fleece. 



5th. These cheating practices are short-sighted, 

 nastnuch as the "cleau thing" brings a price 

 roportionatc. We always fix the price per pound 

 y the quantity of scoured wool it will yield ; — in 

 ur purchases we frequently make a difference of 

 ve cents per pound in precisely similar qualities. 

 ;y adopting tins system, the loss on our pur- 

 hases is less, probably, than of some other inan- 



humanily — then the savins; of life of old and young 

 — avoiding diseases of all kinds, &c. too numeimus 

 to mention. 



The art of growing wool in this country is be- 

 (loming better understood yearly, and I believe 

 the time is not distant when we can afford to pro- 

 duce wool at about European prices. The wool- 

 len manufacturers have done a had business since 

 August, 1836, but their courage is unabated, — 

 they believe the ebb has continued six montiis 

 longer tlian was natural. 



Tour ob't serv't and friend, 



S. Lawrence. 

 It is with no ordinary satisfaction, Mr Editor, 

 that I perceive in the above, a confirujation of all 

 the (lositions I have recently, and shall continue 

 to maintain, in the columns of the Genesee Far- 

 mer, both in regard to the present subject, and 

 the advantages resulting from protection of sheep 

 during the winter. 



In conclusion — Once upon a time a traveller 

 stopped at an inn and called for a repast, which, 

 on being spread before him, he discovered some- 

 thing which caused no little disgust, and at once 

 betrayed the sluttishness of the hostess, viz: — 

 hairs in the butter. The traveller being possessed 

 of more than an ordinary share of equanimity of 

 temjier, instead of being indignant at this outrage- 

 ous departure from tlie clean thing, he only mildly 

 and graciously requested of her ladyship, that the 

 next time he called, she would oblige him by put- 

 ting her hairs on one jdate, and the butter on 

 another; and if he thought it desirable, be would 

 mix for himself. So with the manufacturers. If 

 we will persist in enclosing within our fleeces 

 fUh, burs, clippings, &c. they implore us to put 

 "all that sort o' thing " in one sack, and our clean 

 wool in another, in order that they may determine 

 the relative value ; and peradventure they find it 

 to their interest to mix them, that they may have 

 that privilege themselves. 



But for our particular benefit, they greatly pre- 

 fer that we retain all "dung balls," or lumps of 

 manure, for the improvement of our soil. Let us 

 one and all adopt tliis, my brethren farmers, and 

 the consequences will be, better crops, clean wool, 

 and cleaner consciences. L. A. M. 



Lansing, Tompkins Co.. 



as well as the expense of culture. The following 

 is a state.-nent made in his own hand writing, and 

 handed to me with the liberty of making it public 

 for the encouragement of others, who own light 

 worn-out lands in our State. 



Products of Jonathan Jenkins' model farming 

 contain thirty-eight acres, and divided into five 

 fields, for the year 1837. 



250 bushels oats, at 50 cents, $125 00 



150 bushels winter wheat, red bearde<l, at 



$2. 300 00 



46 bushels spring wheat at $3, 138 00 



325 bushels Pennsylvania yellow flint corn, 



at$l, 325 CO 



35 tons Clover Hay at $12, 420 00 



15 tons wheat and oat straw, got out with 

 wheat threshing machine, worth per 

 '<"" $8, 120 00 



Corn stalks, top and blade fodder, and cut 

 off by the ground and saved in good 

 order, worth say 75 00 



140 bushels Irish potatoes at 50 cts. 70 00 



15 bushels sweet potatoes at 60 cts. 9 00 



40 bushels turnips at 15 cts. g 00 



Pasturage for 4 cows, 8 months at $2 per 



month, 64 00 



Profit or advantage from pa.sture in fatten- 

 ing 1000 lbs. of beef, over and above 

 the pasture of cows as stated, 40 00 



$1692 00 

 Deduct for expenses of cultivation and 



saving crops allowance, say 390 00 



PRODUCTS AND PROFITS OF LAND IN 

 KENT COUNTY, DEL. 



Having often heard from others, of the great 

 profit made by our neigidior, Jonathan Jenkins of 

 Camden, from the cultivation of a few acres of 

 land, which a short lime since was of inferior 

 quality ; I finally determined to ascertain from 

 himself the truth of the statement above alluded 

 to. He informed me that he began to improve 

 the soil of this small tract of land, containing only 

 thirty-eight acres. It was very poor — more so 



Nett profit, $1372 00 



He says that some persons may probably think 

 his estimate of prices too high ; but that he has 

 always sold most of the produce for the sum there 

 given, and expects to dispose of the remainder at 

 the rates there set down ; and at all events, mak- 

 ing every allowance for the excess in the estimate 

 of the value of this little farm, these thirty-eight 

 acres were worth to him the last year a sum equiv- 

 alent to the interest on twenty thousand dollars. — 

 Del. Register. 



Mange in Hogs. A correspondent of the 



Southern Planter says " During niy travels 



through the State, especially towns and villages, 

 1 see a vast number of swine dying with what is 

 called the mange, while many others are on the 

 eve of expiring. This disease is very easily cured 

 if persons would only take the trouble of pulver- 

 izing sulphur, and giving each hog affected, one 

 table spoonful in a little corn meal dough, twice a 

 weeks for two weeks, they will shed the scurf 

 and become perfectly clean. The sulphur at 

 the same time destroys lice and fleas on the 

 swine." 



