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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



"WOOIiEN MANUFACTUKES. 

 According to reports and statistics the 

 grindeis of wool have been "marching on" at 

 a pretty good pace since 1862, whatever may 

 have been the progress of the growers of 

 wool. The number of mills that make car- 

 pets has increased to about one hundred, and 

 they supply (he market with ordinary quali- 

 ties and several mills are now making the 

 finer grades, which have heretofore been im- 

 ported from Europe. On cloths and cassi- 

 meres there are more than three hundred fac- 

 tories ; on shawls, about twenty-five ; flannels, 

 thirty ; blankets, forty-five ; hosiery and knit 

 goods, one hundred and fifty ; on balmorals, 

 worsted goods, &c., the increase has been very 

 great. In fact, there is no branch of the wool- 

 en manufacture, says Mr. Morrill, except that 

 of fine broadcloths, in which entire succes? 

 has not been attained, and the immense sup- 

 ply required in the country is almost wholly 

 piovided at home. Of the "cloths and cassi- 

 meres" imported, reaching about six million 

 dollars in value yearly, nearly all is bread- 

 cloth. Imported "shawls" reach less than 

 two million dollars in value ; "carpets," about 

 four million; and "dress goods," chiefly of 

 worsted, and worsted with cotton or silk, go 

 to the large sum of fifteen millioa dollars in 

 value. 



In some remarks in the Rural New Yorker, 

 on the report of Mr. Morrill, Dr. Randall 

 says, "the extent of the present possession of 

 the market for fine woolens of every other 

 description than what are distinctively known 

 as dress broadcloths, is best illustrated by a 

 list of nearly three hundred factories, which, 

 but for its length, we would give in full ; rep- 

 resented in the New Yoik market alone, all 

 engaged on cassimeres, coatings, beavers, 

 twteds, repellants, ladies' cloakings, and 

 other l.'ke fine goods, all wool or cotton 

 warp, and which were, until recently, nearly 

 all imported. The distinctively fine goods 

 are almost all the growth under the tariffs 

 since 1861, and the market of the United 

 States, now grown to three times the meas- 

 ure of 1860, is held by this domestic pro- 

 duction so nearly exclusively that the pro- 

 portion of foreign goods entering into it is 

 scarcely distinguishable. For the first time 

 in the history of the trade, the market is 

 really supplied with a domestic production 



of mohairs, alpacas, Italian cloths, «S:c. ; de- 

 laines having been abundant for some years 

 previously. We assume, therefore, that the 

 tariff on woolens is effective and valuable, as 

 it was designed to be, in developing at home 

 the enormous industry that must be engaged 

 in the manufacture of woolens to supply our 

 markets. Further examination in almost 

 every other class of woolens would show the 

 same progress. Knit goods almost complete- 

 ly supply the field at home ; and the growth 

 since 1862 is to about three times the value 

 then produced. Shawls of all sorts, other 

 than mohair or camel's hair, are no longer 

 imported in any considerable degree. Blan- 

 kets, both of the finer white sorts, including 

 carriage and traveling blankets, as well as 

 all coarse Indian blankets, are also not im- 

 ported to any amount, while the domestic pro- 

 duction has reached large aggregates. Bear- 

 ing in mind the enormous importation of all 

 classes of blankets formerly existing, the value 

 of the protection which secures this indus^y 

 will be felt." 



All this may at first sight afford little 

 consolation to the wool grower in the pres- 

 ent depressed condition of his business ; but 

 on second thought, may we not hope that, as 

 our manufacturers succeed in furnishing our 

 market with cloths, our wool growers will 

 eventually furni&h the wool for these cloths ? 

 On the basis of the agreement between grow- 

 er and manufacturer, may not this hope grow 

 into a demand ? 



AKALYSIS OF FODDEB CORN. 



In the course of some strictures in the 

 Rural New Yorker on Dr. Loripg's condemna- 

 tion of green corn stalks as fodder for milch 

 cows, Mr. E. W. Stewart gives the analysis 

 of green corn, by J. H. Salisbury, of New 

 York, and of Wolf and Knapp, German 

 chemists, whose tables are used by Prof. 

 Johnson in his book on "How Crops Grow." 



Mr. Salisbury made the most thorough ex- 

 amination, chemically, of the Indian corn 

 plant in all its stages, from six inches high to 

 maturity, that has ever been made by any 

 chemist. These separate analyses of root 

 and stalk, and leaf, and tassel, and silk, and 

 husk, and ear, clearly showed that the whole 

 plant, previous to earing, is accumulating the 

 the materials with which to perfect the grain. 



