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From Australasia, from which colony England draws a large 

 amount of wool, it costs 3d. per lb. to bring it to the London mar- 

 ket. I sent a sample of two wools I can grow here, and notwith- 

 standing the difficulties any new staple labors under in the London 

 market until known, (or rather the advantages they take) it was 

 pronounced good clothing wool, and would fetch the highest price 

 of that sort of wool, but it is not necessary to send the wool to Eng- 

 land, nor would I recommend it, but I mention this to answer any 

 one who may say, where shall we sell our wool? 



The Middlesex mills at Lowell, according to the statement of Mr. 

 Lawrence, consume annually one million of pounds. A firm at New 

 Orleans advertised for a million of pounds of wool at one time for 

 the French market. So soon as we can grow wool cheap enough 

 for exportation, says an acute writer, we have a fine field. I be- 

 lieve now it pays in England a nominal duty of one cent a pound, 

 on wool worth 24 cents per lb. and under, and two cents per lb, for 

 wool costing over 24 cents; but now no doubt it will be duty free. 

 The wool business in the United States is about one quarter of the 

 cotton business. 



In 1840 New-York had 5,118,777 sheep, Vermont in the same 

 year 1,681,081, Ohio 2,209,401, yet Vermont produces more wool 

 than Ohio, 



Mr. Lawrence, of the Middlesex mills, says they use in these mills 

 a million of pounds per annum, and adds, " We are very fastidious 

 in the selection of our wools, both as regarcte the blood and condi- 

 tion, and in consequence are in the habit of giving prices which 

 manufacturers think absurd; the wool is of the finest kind." 



Let those who read and are willing to enter into my views, put 

 all these facts together, draw just inferences from them, and it is a 

 settled question that the time has come for raising wool, as a profit- 

 able and safe business for the investment of capital conducted by 

 scientific men. Nothing requires more knowledge and constant and 

 unremitting care, and if done on a large scale must make a fortune 



