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never met with a bad bed. And a very recent American traveller of 

 great observation, mentions on his removal from England to France, 

 that he found the French beds dehciousand healthy, because the beds 

 are Wool Matresses. 



Mode of making Wool Mattresses. — The first thing to constitute a 

 good healthy bed, is to have it absolutely flat, therefore all bedsteads 

 should have wooden laths instead of sacking, which always gives and 

 forms a hollow. The wool is to be carded by hand, all knots and 

 extraneous matter taken out. The great point is to make it thick 

 enough; the best bed I ever slept on in my life had sixty pounds of 

 wool in it, but the bed was a very large, extra size. Half that quan- 

 tity will make a small bed, but if you wish to sleep luxuriously, yet 

 hard, do not stint the wool, this makes all the difference ; it lasts for- 

 ever. The covering is to be washed once a year, the wool is carded 

 and a few pounds of wool added, and the bed is sweet and new. 

 However luxurious he may lie ordinarily, let any man have a good 

 wool mattress made, and let him ride forty or fifty miles and thoroughly 

 fatigue himself, and after reposing on it, he will know the value of 

 such a bed. 



It is an object of vast national importance to increase the consump- 

 tion of our wool. The population of the United States is, say 20 

 millions ; dividing these into families of five each, gives four millions 

 of families. Should we allot three beds to each family of 30 pounds 

 each, it would require 360 millions of pounds of wool. Now, esti- 

 mating the number of sheep at 34 millions, and their clip at 80 mil- 

 lions pounds a year, it would require more than the whole clip of the 

 United States for four years to furnish the beds. These are facts 

 worthy of being promulgated by the Institute, independent of the 

 immense benefit to the health of our citizens. Let men try a wool 

 mattress, particularly married men, and report to the Institute. 



( PAPER B. ) 



Flannel manufactures of wool; home market for Wool ^-Flannel. — 

 Of the importance and necessity of all the world wearing it, and of 

 the benefits arising from the manufacture of flannel in the United 

 States, and the consumption of that kind of wool that cannot find a 

 market abroad. 



