OJ AiJUtlCULTURAL MUSEUM 



for cords, twills, stripes, chambniys, ginghams, sheets 

 ings and sliirtings. 



There is a Calico print'ng and dying factory, on 

 G\vynn*s Falls— and a manufactory of Hats and Bon* 

 nets, belonging to a Mr. Caitet',of the town of Baltimore. 



Besides these larger establishments, there are more 

 than 50 looms in and near the town, employed on sum- 

 mer cotton ware. 



The woollen manufactory on Jones's Falls, is greatly 

 enlarged and improved. 



The Domestic Warehouse and other stores in Balti- 

 more, have now for sale the following wearing articles 

 of home manufacture, drawn from various paits of the 

 Union ; viz. Flaxen and tow linen ; cotton shooting and 

 shirting; printed calicoes, shawls and handkerohiofs, 

 cotton and lins.ey stripes ; chambrays ; Viiginia cloth ; 

 bed-ticking an4 coverlids; cotton } arn and thread of 

 various kinds and colours ; sewing silk and cotton ; 

 coatings, coarse and fine cloths; cassim^res and; cassi- 

 nets; morocco bats and caps ; buckskin breeches, pan- 

 taloons ^nd gloves ; hosiery yarn and shoe thread ; cot- 

 jton and thread hose ; ladies' hats and bonnets, &c. 



Exclusive of the foregoing manufactures, theie are 

 others, which have attained considerable perfection at 

 Baltimore, There is one pap^r mill, which has a capital 

 of :^S' 40,000; which makes 12,000 roams per annum — 

 another, with a capital of $ 70,000, makes 40,000 

 reams. Two gun-powder mills, whose capital is $ 160, 

 OtX), that make 62 quarter casks a day. A spade, shovel, 

 and hoe manufactory, whoie capital is ^ 8 000 ; tiiat is 

 said to make 8 doz. of spades and shovels per diem. The 

 glassworks of Mr. Frieze, capital ^'40,000, annually 

 producing 3,400 boxes of glass, each containijig lOO 

 square feet. The type ionndcvy of S. Sowers & Co. ca- 

 pital .;^ 10,000, that casts from 12 to 14,000 pounds of 

 type per annum — Not to speak of the paper hanging 

 factory of Thomas and Caldclcugh — or of the slit- 



