62 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
avmaple guarantee of its entire accuracy. It is un- 
doubtedly the most extended list of wool prices which 
has ever been made out in our country from reliable 
data. The average, and not the extreme prices, for 
each quarter are given. 
I have added a column, indicating the tariff laws 
in force at the different periods. 
Let me preface the table by stating that I learn 
from various sources that from 1800 to 1807 wool 
bore a low and mostly a nominal price in our coun- 
try; that in 1807 and 1808 full-blood Merino wool 
was worth about $1 a pound;* that it advanced in 
1809 to about $2 a pound,t and continued at not far 
from that price during the war, some selling at $2.50 
a pound; that in 1815 it again sunk to a low price, 
and so remained until 1824. 
* Colonel Humphreys, in a M8. letter lying before me, says that he 
sold for that price in 1807. 
+In 1809 Chancellor Livingston sold his unwashed full-blood wool 
for $2.00; seven-eighths blood for $1.50; three-fourths for $1.25; 
one-half blood for 75 cents; common for 374 cents. 
Prices Current or Woot in Boston. 
Tariff and 
time of taking 
effect. Year. Quarter ending* Fine. Medium. Coarse. 
1824, January ......- ere ee cece ee neceee +. +. 
March... cee eee cece een e cee 70 45 33 
June 80. f 0 A .. oe * 
October... wee cece sess ceeneece 61) 40 30 
1825, January ..... cece eee w ene eee ees 60 45 83 
00) | a te os . 
| OUY cece ewer ceec etc etceaeees .. 
a October ...... cee cece cree eens ws 
S | 1826. January ...... sae e eee eeenens we 
™ 2 0) 0 | 52 45 40 
3 UNG oes ce cece cece nsec en ceee 3T 80 27 
‘= October... . cee ceer ee ee ee eeeeee 44. 88 83 
B 11827. January ............cccneeeceee 8T 33 28 
eH 25 9) | 44, 36 80 
DULY 22 cece ewe n ee eee tence 36 81 26 
October... ... cece coc ec ence eee 42, 32 25 
*The prices, it will be observed, are not givon strictly by guarders in the table 
anterior to 1827, 
