1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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contract which occurs among the subscribers to 

 the fund ? Let this be don,e in a few cases — 

 no matter which party violates — and the out- 

 rageous practice of leaving employers without 

 good cause, would soon cease. These viola- 

 tions take place among the help in the house 

 more frequently than they do among the work- 

 ers in the field, and they are sometimes vexa- 

 tious and perplexing in the highest degree. 



And now, brother farmers, what shall we do ? 

 Deplore this condition of things, or use the 

 means we possess for improving it, and come 

 to the conclusion that we must labor for all 

 that is good and beautiful, here and hereafter ? 

 The educating and establishing this long op- 

 pressed people is a part of our destiny, and 

 as wise and faithful stewards, we must accept 

 it cheerfully and labor in it with fidelity. We 

 must not only teach them the arts of peace, 

 but by precept and example, must teach them 

 the moral law, — that truth and justice must be 

 regarded in all the concerns of life, and that 

 conscience is the spirit of God within us, ever 

 directing us to that rule which requires us to 

 do to others as we would have others do to us. 



■WOOL MANUFACTUHEKS. 



The third annual meeting of the National 

 Association of Wool Manufacturers was held 

 in New York, October 2d. Hon. Erastus 

 Bigelow, of Massachusetts, was re-elected 

 President ; T. S. Faxton, of New York, Theo- 

 dore Pomtroy of Massachusetts, and Archi- 

 bald Campbell of Pennsylvania, Vice Presi- 

 dents ; and John L. Hayes of Boston, Secre- 

 tary. 



The connection of this society with the Na- 

 tional Wool Growers' Association, and the 

 fact that this connection is looked upon by 

 some wool growers with distrust and suspicion, 

 give no Utile interest to the proceedings of this 

 influential body of manufacturers. While we 

 admit that manufacturers of wool, like the 

 manufacturers of other articles, may be influ- 

 enced by the general principle of buying the 

 raw material where they can buy it the cheap- 

 est, we cannot believe they are so short-sighted 

 as to adopt a policy which must destroy or 

 greatly impair the value of their home-market. 

 We fully believe in the substantial identity of 

 the interests of the Wool Growers and the 

 Wool IManufacturers of the country. And we 

 are pleased to see in the report of the secre- 



tary, and in the resolutions adopted -by the asso- 

 ciation, a recognition of this principle so open 

 and apparently hearty as to confirm our hope 

 that the fears of wool growers about being 

 "sokr' in their late agreement with the manu- 

 facturers are entlrel}' groundless. Manufactur- 

 ers, mechanics and merchants are beginning 

 to understand that they cannot long prosper 

 unless farmers prosper. 



The Secretary's Report, though written in 

 the first person, was unanimously adopted by 

 the association. We need not ask the atten- 

 tion of our readers to the following extract 

 from this report, or to the resolutions which 

 follow, for which we are indebted to the Rural 

 New Yorker, as we have not as yet received a 

 copy of the printed Report : — 



A result of the recent tariff on wool and 

 woolens, which cannot fall to be encouraging 

 to the wool producing Interests of the country, 

 Is the appprei.Iation which it has tended to 

 produce of our domestic wools. The effect of 

 the recent tariff', in directing attention to 

 American wools, is greater than ever anticipa- 

 ted by manufacturers. In all establishments 

 where foreign wool was formerly largely used, 

 manufacturers have been induced to make new 

 applications of domestic fleece which they would 

 never have dreamed of but for the change In 

 the wool duty. Some Indication of the extent 

 to which American wool has been substituted, 

 Is shown by importations at the port of New 

 York, given from official sources. For the 

 first six months of 18G6, the clothing wool en- 

 tered at New York amounted to 23,092,043 

 pounds ; and for the first six months of 

 1807,4,306,183 pounds.* To come to more 

 direct illustrations : I am informed by a manu- 

 facturer of worsted yarns, consuming 10,000 

 pounds of wool per week, that before the 

 imposition of the duty on Canada wool, he 

 made use of that material exclusively for his 

 fabrics, as it was supposed to be Indispen- 

 sable. After the imposition of the duty, 

 he experimented with American wools, se- 

 lecting from lots brought principally from 

 Kentucky ; and for months he has m;ule use 

 of no other wool, which he finds perfectly 

 adapted for yarns of numbers not exceeding 

 35- For the higher numbers, the admixture 

 of wools of pure English blood Is found neces- 

 sary. The manufacturer and iutioducer of 

 the admirable cloaklngs, of which 1 shall speak 

 elsewhere, informs me, that, upon commenc- 

 ing this new fabric, it was supposed that the 

 most expensive Sllesian wools would be re- 

 (|ulred to equal the Austrian fabrics, which 

 first suggested these styles. In the early 

 stages of his manufacture, he made use of 

 Sllesian wools, costing, washed, two dollars 

 per pound. These fiibrlcs are now all made 

 of American wool, without the slightest admix- 



