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AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



Total . . 12,907,638 1392 41,917,324 21,159,761 



There were imported in 1S36, over and above our 

 exports, 12,296,249 pounds of foreign wool, mostly 

 of coarse quality, costing abroad less than eight 

 cents per pound, and not subject, therefore, to duty. 



Of this gross amount of wool, it is estimated that 

 thirty-one million pounds were worked up in the 

 manufactories, leaving twelve million for family 

 manufacture, three million and a half of which are 

 supposed to be used in New- York, three in Pennsyl- 

 vania, and two in Ohio. 



The woollen-manufacturing establishments in the 

 United States are employed on the following fabrics, 

 viz.: on broadcloths, 344 ; cassimeres, 178; satinets, 

 574; flannels, 158: jeans, linseys,&c., 210- blankets, 

 yarns, and hats, 24; carpets, 61. 



Hoosic has 37,807 sheep, the greatest number of 

 any town in this state ; and Dutchess county 23 1,294 

 the greatest number of any county in the state. 



EXPERIMENT IX HARVESTING CORK, 



In the November number of the Cultivator, 1838, 

 we gave the result of an experiment in harvesting 

 corn, going to show that it is better to cut it up than 

 to top it. We now give the result of another es 

 periment of the same kind. 



