68 FINZ WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
should not like to assert that there 1s not a broad- 
cloth manufactory in New England, though I do not 
know of any machinery; now running, of that kind of 
goods,” 
A manufacturer of standing in our State, who 
made broadcloths prior to 1846, writes me (January 
23, 1862), that there are no broadcloths made in the 
United States, so far as he knows, except such as are 
made for the army and navy; and a few cotton 
warp cloths, called “ Union.” 
I have presented the preceding statistics, because 
they embrace facts which are inseparably and impor- 
tantly connected with the progress of sheep and wool 
husbandry in the United States; and without them 
much of the history I am sketching would be mean- 
ingless—a mere record of apparently casual events. I 
had contemplated accompanying them with similar 
statistics of the woolen production, trade, and legisla- 
tion of other nations; but I found that while those of 
them which could be obtained in this country would 
swell this paper to a volume, they still would lack a 
satisfactory degree of completeness without sending 
to Europe for more, for which there would be no 
time. 
Having presented a class of facts, the mutual rela- 
tions and bearings of which have been made the 
topics of much partisan discussion—which, in some 
cases, indeed, have constituted what are termed “ js- 
sues” between parties—I feel constrained to omit my 
own deductions and conclusions in respect to them, 
leaving every person to form his own opinions on the 
subject. 
