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NEW ENGLAM) FARMER. 



Feb. 



country, that at a certain elevation on our 

 mountains, there is a stratum of atmosphere 

 so peculiarly constructed, and so dry, that it 

 will not permit the formation of frost. When 

 a farm is located so far up on the mountains as 

 to be above the region subject to spring frost, 

 ■we say it is above the frost line. Orcliards so 

 located never fail to bear full crops on ac- 

 count of spring frosts. The peach, in these 

 situations, sometimes fails iVom the destruc- 

 tion of fruit buds by winter-killing, though 

 this is unusual. I am not aware that the apple 

 ever fails at this elevation, even from this 

 cause. — L. F. Sensabaugh, Waynesville, in 

 Country Gent. 



National asso. of wool growers. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Executive Committee of the National 

 Wool Growers' Association met at Pittsburg, 

 Nov. 26. The following officers were elected 

 for 18G8. 



Presidetit. — Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL.D.. of 

 New York. 



Vice Presidents. — The Presidents of the State 

 Associations. 



Secretary. — Wm. F. Greer, of Ohio. 



Treasurer. — A. F. Wilcox, of New York. 



The constitution was so amended that each 

 Association may appoint two additional mem- 

 bers of the committee, and until elections are 

 made, the following gentlemen were ap- 

 pointed : — 



Norton S. Townscnd, Ohio; John D. Wing, New 

 York ; J. H. Pickerel!, Illinois ; J. D. Hazelton, 

 Wisconsin ; John H. Davis, West Virginia ; Bur- 

 ditt Loomis, Connecticut ; Henry Keyes, Vermont. 



Mr. Delano, of Ohio, offered the following 



resolution : — 



Resolved, That a committee of three be appoint- 

 ed by this Association, with power, at their dis- 

 cretion, to arrange with the National Wool Grow- 

 ers' Association for a National exposition of their 

 respective industries at such time and place as 

 may be agreed upon. 



The President informed the Association that 

 he had held some correspondence with the 

 officers of the National Association of Wool 

 Manufacturers on the subject of holding a Na- 

 tional Exposition of the wool and woolen inter- 

 ests of the country at some place, say Chicago, 

 in the spring of 1868 — each Association being 

 empowered to designate such objects of exhi- 

 bition as it shall deem expedient. The Manu- 

 facturers strongly favored the measure, and 

 would make prompt preparations to carry it 

 out on a splendid scale should this Association 

 invite their co-operation. They decidedly pre- 

 ferred Chicago as the place of holding the Ex- 

 position. He (the President) believed that a 

 general exhibition of our sheep, wool and 

 woolen manufactures would be attended with 

 the most beneficent effects on the respective in- 

 terests at large. 



After a free discussion, in which fears were 

 expressed that . the trouble of transporting 

 stock might prevent a creditable show, the 

 resolution was adopted and the following gen- 

 tlemen were nominated and elected said com- 

 mittee : — Henry S. Randall, of N. Y. ; John 

 D. Wing, of N. Y. ; A. M. Garland, of 111. 



The following were reported by tUs com- 

 mittee on resolutions, separately considered 

 and adopted. 



1. Resolved, That the financial necessities of the 

 nation render a tariff for revenue purposes indis- 

 pensable, in order to pay our national ooligations 

 and preserve our national honor. 



2. That in regulating duties on imports. Con- 

 gress should exempt such articles of general ne- 

 cessity as are not produced in this country, and 

 should so adjust duties on other articles as to give 

 fair and equal protection, as far as practicable, to 

 all products of American industry. 



3. Considering the compact, extensive and per- 

 sistent efforts of the free trade interest to destroy 

 American industry and weaken our national re- 

 sources, it is the duty of all the industrial interests 

 of the nation to unite in a common effort to coun- 

 teract this foreign free trade policy. 



4. We regard the present duty on wool and 

 woolen goocls as well adapted to promote and har- 

 monize the true interests of producers and con- 

 sumers of wool and woolen fabrics; we therefore 

 have full faith in the ultimate results of the tariff, 

 and insist that it be neither modified nor repealed, 

 until time shall have fully demonstrated its effects. 



5. That the "interests of wool manufacturers 

 and wool growers oeingrecognized as identical, fur- 

 ther measures should be adopted to make each 

 class familiar with the respective wants and neces- 

 sities of the other." 



6. That the National Association of Wool Grow- 

 ers take great pleasure in expressing their thanks 

 and gratitude to the Congress of the nation for 

 passing, at its recent session, the exi.-ting wise and 

 necessary taritl" for the protection, increase, and 

 development of wool growing and wool manufac- 

 turing interests of tlie country, and that we have 

 every confidence this legislation will be stable and 

 permanent, to the end that business arrangements 

 already made in conformity to it may be encour- 

 aged, and a great branch of national industry ad- 

 vanced and protected. 



The President, Hon. C. Delano, and Gen- 

 White, of Pennsylvania, were appointed a 

 committee to prepare an address to the wool 

 growers of the United States in reference to 

 their present condition, interests and necessi- 

 ties. 



A resolution was passed authorizing the 

 President to a{>point Hon. R. M. Montgomery, 

 of Ohio; Hon. E. B. Pottle, of New York; 

 A. M. Garland, of Illinois, one or more, — as he 

 may deem neci'ssary, — to represent the wool 

 interests at Washington. 



In convention the general interests of the 

 Wool Growers were discussed at considerable 

 length after the adjournment of the Executive 

 Committee. 



— The squirrels have almost disappeared from 

 the woods in South Carolina since the war. 



