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NEW ENGLAM) FARMER. 



Sept. 



Now as a patent has been obtained by IStt, 

 Page, of Adams, N. Y., for bis process of ex- 

 tracting butter from whey, may not some pro- 

 cess be devised by which the butter may be 

 extracted from milk without removing those 

 properties which are useful in the manufacture 

 of cheese? 



Our correspondent's circumstances not be- 

 ing favorable to the prosecution of experi- 

 ments to determine this point, he submits the 

 subject to dairymen. He however alludes to 

 an article' published some time ago in the Scien- 

 tific American, about a process of extracting 

 butter by burying milk in a cool place in the 

 earth, as one that may be followed up to a prac- 

 tical result. Instead of enveloping the milk in 

 a series of linen bags, he proposes a box with 

 shelves for the milk, and if this proves success- 

 ful, then enlarge the box to a milk-room, in 

 such a manner that the whole should be sub- 

 jected to those influences of the earth which, in 

 case of the milk in the bag, separated the par- 

 ticles of the butter from the milk buried as 

 described by the Scientific American. After 

 the removal of the butter in this way, the 

 milk, on his theory, would produce first quality 

 cheese. 



"WOOLEN EXPOSITION. 



The first exhibition by the Woolen Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the Northwest was 

 opened at Chicago, August 4. The 1500 

 specimens of manufactured goods from eighty 

 mills, some woolen machinery, and a small 

 but creditable display of wool, occupied the 

 five floors of a new building, 80 by 100 feet. 

 The Mayor of Chicago, the Governor of Illi- 

 nois, Hon. J. B. Grinnell, of Iowa, Col. Ca- 

 pron, Agricultural Commissioner, and ^Ir. 

 John L. Hayes, of Boston, were among the 

 speakers at the opening and other public ex- 

 ercises of the occasion. 



At a business meeting the following resolu- 

 tion was adopted unanimously: 



Resolved, That the rules adopted at the conven- 

 tiou ill February, 1868, governing the members of 

 the association" in buying wool, are hereby re- 

 scinded, and members left free to purchase wool 

 on its own merits. 



A committee, of which Colonel Needham 

 of Massachusetts was a member, was ap- 

 pointed to submit recorpmendations governing 

 the purchase of wool. 



Mr. W. G. Coulter delivered an address, 

 in which he ' discussed the subject of wool 



manufacture, and adduced facts to show that 

 the centre of the woolen interest should be 

 west of the lakes. He also made a compari- 

 son of the relative cost and profits of woolen 

 mills in Chicago and Lowell, and presented 

 statistics showing that goods can be manufac- 

 tured twenty-five per cent, cheaper at the 

 West than at the East. 



Mr. G. B. Stebbins, of Detroit gave some 

 statistics of the growth of the wool manufac- 

 ture in England and the United States, and 

 spoke as follows of this interest at the West : 



It fs well that wool-growers and manufacturers 

 meet here on common ground, for it is a re -ogni- 

 tion, too lon^ delayed, of the unity of interest be- 

 tween farmer and manufacturer — the one providing 

 the raw material and the food for the workers in 

 the mills, the other adding by skill and labor to 

 the beauty and value of that material, and con- 

 suming the products of the farm. These two di- 

 visions of the great army of honorable workers, 

 closely linked as they are by ties of mutual help 

 and dei>endence, may well blazon on their stand- 

 ards the motto, "United we stand, divided we fall." 

 They are natural allies, destined to fight out the 

 battle of life on the same line, and to win a com- 

 mon victory over poverty and ignorance. 



With our great breadth of soil and varied cli- 

 mate, fitted for the production of every kind of 

 wool, it is the "manifest destiny" of bur wool- 

 growers to raise all that our manufacturers want, 

 and not compel them to import over seventy mil- 

 lion pounds a year, as at present. The wool clip 

 of Great Britain, with her narrow domain and 

 poorer soil, is some 260,000,000 pounds yearly, 

 while ours is less than half as much. Surely we 

 should go far beyond her; and, judging oy "the 

 signs of the times" in this wonderful exposition, 

 that's what you men of the western farms mean 

 to do. And it is a characteristic of the West to 

 accomplish what is well and wisely begun. 



Mr. J. L. Hayes, of Boston, would have 



the Eastern manufacturers make the richer 



class of goods, while the good and cheap are 



produced at the West. He said : 



Now, in this country we have not began to do 

 tne work we ought to cj^o. We are just on the bor- 

 ders of the great field of industry. Why in Eng- 

 land, the manufacture of carding wool constitutes 

 but a small portion; the manufacture of dress 

 goods, or the combing wool industry, is the great 

 work. There are two classes of manufactures — 

 the carding wool and the combing wool. The 

 earding wool for cloths, the combing wool for dress 

 goods. The comliing wool indiistiy in England is 

 very much larger than the other. The comliing 

 wool industry of France is three times as much as 

 the carding industry. And in this country the 

 combing wool industry is not over a tenth of the 

 carding wool industry. But we have all the West 

 open to us, and see what a field it will give us for 

 the manufacture of carding wool — especially in 

 this State. The wool corporations will be glad to 

 do your work. You must furnish us with the 

 wool — the right kind of wool. Now at tTiis very 

 time, wool, the best pf Ohio wool, such as you 

 raise, is worth 45 cents per pound. Yet the right 

 kind of wool, such as might be raised here on these 

 Western prairies, would be worth 75 cents; while 

 the mutton would also be better and bring a higher 

 price. See what an inducement there is to open 

 that industry. 



