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in return I sometimes get one-half, sometimes a little more. Think- 

 ing all was not right, I concluded to put the matter to a test trial. 

 I took tAvo bunches of wool to the factory last year, they weighed 

 each forty-three pounds; one was made into satmet (cotton one 

 way); in return I got thirty-one and a half yards, not quite three 

 quarters wide, and weighing twenty-one and a half pounds with the 

 cotton included. Five pounds off for cotton would leave me six- 

 teen and a half i30unds of wool in the cloth, for forty-three pounds 

 of wool. The other bunch I got carded in rolls; it lost nothing 

 by weight in carding. My wife and hired girl spun it into yarn, 

 and a neighbor man wove it into flannel, which made sixty-two 

 square yards, weighing thirty-four pounds vv^hen washed and col- 

 ored, no cotton in it. I then cut from it thirteen yards and got it 

 fulled to cloth, which made ten and a half j'ards. Suppose the 

 sixty-two yards to full up one-fourth, it would leave forty-six and 

 a half yards, all wool. The difference was so great, I required the 

 manufacturer to make up the loss — which he did. One pound of 

 good clean wool ought to make one yard of cloth, three-quarters 

 wide, all wool, weighing twelve and three-quarter ounces; and if 

 you fail to get that, I think a screj^ gets loose somewhere; a turn 

 or two might help it some. Can I hear from others on this sub- 

 '^ ject? 



Mr. R. W. McGaren, Coburg, C. W.— On a lot of 5,000 pounds 

 Michigan wool, medium quality, the loss by scouring alone was 

 forty-six and a half per cent; 5,000 pounds unwashed Cape, sixty- 

 five per cent; 5,000 pounds Canada coarse wool (Leicester and 

 Cotswold), fifteen per cent. That is a fair average. Sargent's 

 wool-washing machine would have made it cleaner still. 



WOOL FROM INDIANA. 



Mr. Nelson Newton, Orland, Indiana, sends a specimen of wool 

 raised by a neighbor of his, and asks the opinion of the Club 

 whether it is a good combing wool. 



Mr. John F. Greene, an old wool merchant of this city, being 

 present, says it is a very superior combing wool, A No. 1, and will 

 make ■^arn of the best quality. 



INQUIRY ABOUT GRASS. 



Mr. R. G. Beattie, Mclndos Falls, Vt.— Will turning the sod of 

 a stiff clay soil nicely after haying, and harrowing in a good coat 

 of manure and seeding to timothy next April, be a success, and will 



