cc - Sleeper's ^Department 
worth of extra feed has produced, at least, three 
dollars In cheese. There is very little difference iu 
the average product of a cow in tlio dillerent parts 
of the State. Poor care and short feed will produce 
a short product anywhere, and a liberal diet and 
good attention will produce 500 pound* of cheese 
per cow anywhere in the State. 
Dairymen should remember that the butter and 
casein in milk are worth in cheese 1 - to 16 cents per 
pound, while the constituents of these in the pea, 
In oil meal and bran, are worth only 2 to 3 cents per 
pound, so that in feeding these the cow elaborates 
this comparatively cheap food into a product three 
or four times as valuable. No dairyman should be 
satisfied with a herd that will not produce 25 pound* 
of milk average for 200 days or the cheese season. 
This will give him 500 pounds of cheese per cow, 
and nothing less should satisfy the ambition, of a 
progressive dairyman.— E. w. s. 
committee, who were presen^ to join in it - delibera¬ 
tions, or who were Constantly consulted by its mem¬ 
bers in letters and'circulare. fco, too, was the United 
States Commissioner of Revenue, Mr. Colwell,— 
hitherto counted among the earnest friends of pro¬ 
tection and of the wool interest,— who frequently 
attended the meetings of tie committee, and gave 
his sanction to its final atiiou. 8o, too, were the 
most distinguished friends of the wool growers in 
Congress—such men as Morrell, Delano, Grin- 
net.l, &c., Ac.,— who were carefully consulted in 
regard to the details of tile law, before it left the 
hands of the committee, and who gave it their ap¬ 
probation. So, too, in point of fact, was every 
member of each branch of Congress who voted for 
the law, if he knew for what he was votiug! 
Candor requires another statement from us, and 
we make it with pleasure. If there is anything 
wrong, anything corrupt, anything fraudulent to¬ 
wards the wool interests of the country in the pro¬ 
visions which concern wool, in the tariff, the growers 
have nobody to blame for it, in the joint committee 
which drafted the law, but their own direct represent¬ 
atives. The committee of the National WooT Grow¬ 
ers' Association, both in regard to 'he clasdfi:atitm oj 
protected tpools, and iu regard to the rales of duties on 
all wools, shoddy, dec., “ stuck their own stakes” aud 
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EDITED BY HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D. 
Classes 1 and 2 on one side, and Class 3 on the, 
other,) must entirely depend, under the most accu¬ 
rate Custom House valuation, on the relative por¬ 
tions of the higher and lower priced grades of wool 
imported respectively in the corapui -d Classes. 
Thus, if a great portion of Class 3 wools imported 
iuto Boston consisted of the highest priced East 
India wools, worth 50 cents in market, if a great 
portion of the Class 1 wools consisted of the lower 
priced Mcstiza (Buenos Ayres) wools, worth but 18 
cents in market, and if, as was the fact, the amount 
of Class 2 wools was relatively very small, it is evi¬ 
dent that tlii! average value of Class 3 wools would 
be greatly above that of Class 1 and 2 wools. An 
approximation to these conditions would produce 
approximate results; and a reversal of them, giviug 
the preponderance to high priced wools in Classes 
1 and 2, and to low priced wools in Class 3, would 
give the highest average val no lo the former. Hence 
the facts relied on by the Country Gentleman to 
prove his conclusions—to exhibit stupendous frauds 
perpetrated under a law designed lo favor such 
frauds —only prove his own ignorance, And the 
difference between the kinds and prices of the lead¬ 
ing wools in the smie Glasses imported at New York 
and Boston, show that the average value of those 
Classes may honestly differ, to a material extent, in 
the two cities; and hence that in the light of any 
proof yet adduced by the editor, his gratuitous taunt 
that “Yankee trade is proverbially cute,” only 
establishes the fact that he himself is not very 
“cute” — we mean, of course, in regard to the sub¬ 
ject under discussion. 
The impression of the editor of the Country Gen¬ 
tleman that it was the intent or theory' of the tariff 
to levy equivalent duties on all foreign wools in pro¬ 
portion to their value — that each are “ charged with 
all the duty they can bear " — presents a still more 
amusing exemplification of the extent of his infor¬ 
mation on a topic which he discusses with so much 
modest assurance. It will be hardly necessary to 
inform any wool grower in the United States that 
such was not the intention of the tariff, and that no 
such intention was ever avowed by the friends or 
framers of the law. The duties cm Class I and 2 
wools were made higher, in order to protect the 
American grower of the same kinds of wool. They 
are protective duties. Class 3 wools not, as already 
said, being produced in the United States, the duties 
on them were brought down to what was considered 
the best revenue standard. They arc purely revenue 
duties. And wc may remark, in passing, that it was 
thought dangerous to strain them up high, as the 
great relative amount of wool represented by value 
iu carpets, as compared with cloths, &c,, would, in 
that case, render carpets too expensive for common 
use, and thus not only decrease the revenue, but 
deprive a large portion of our people of an important 
comfort, and what they have in fact come to con¬ 
sider a necessary of life. 
We certainly are not authorized to declare that no 
frauds in the classification and appraisal of wools, 
have been practiced iu the Custom Houses, under 
the present tariff. But both as a matter of official 
duty and personal interest we have made diligent 
inquiries on the subject. We personally know the 
Assistant Appraisers who are charged with these 
duties in the New York and Boston Custom Houses. 
The former possesses great experience, is a prompt 
and exceedingly accurate judgeof wool, and we believe 
his integrity is unquestioned. The latter possesses 
less experience, but lias experienced aud competent 
assistants, and so far as we have been enabled to ascer¬ 
tain, bothheaudthey have the confidence of the busi¬ 
ness men of Boston who are not interested either in 
wool trade or manufacture. From inquiries made on 
(he spot, we believe that it is the opinion of those best 
qualified to judge, in both cities, that these officers 
perform their duties honestly and accurately. If the 
contrary can be shown, we very much desire to be put 
iu possession of tlio facts, and we think we can con¬ 
fidently promise that the wool growers of the United 
States will take immediate aud very energetic steps 
to procure the removal of these officials. 
We have also made inquiries into the practical oper¬ 
ation of the mode of classification, and the use of 
standard samples, under the present tariff—the 
former pronounced “arbitrary and ineffectual” in 
the Co. Gent. We are satisfied that they work ex¬ 
ceedingly well — far bed ter than any previous system. 
The sweeping imputations on the framers aud 
administrators of the law in the Country Gentleman, 
arc appropriately supplemented by the following 
highly characteristic cl using up editorial flourish: 
“ These statements are submitted for tilt* thoughtolcon- 
sideratlon of oar readers. They may aid in jJhistratiug 
the value of the. counsels by which the wool growers of the 
country have been guided during the past lew years, and 
the degree of prosperity to which these counsels have led.” 
Now let us ask who were the framers of the tariff’ 
who basely aud criminally entertained aud carried 
out the infamous “ design” of so arranging the pro¬ 
visions of that law, in respect to classification or 
otherwise, as to allow frauds to be practiced under it 
which almost entirely rob it. of its ostensibly protect, 
ive character ? Who are they by whose “ counsels” 
the “ wool growers of the country have been guided 
during the past few years ” aud to their present 
“degree of prosperityV” 
IMPORTS OP WOOL UNDER THE NEW 
TARIFF. 
Under this head, the Country Gentleman of Jan. 
16th gives a “summary of a very long paper,” in¬ 
terwoven with editorial comments and conclusions 
which render the article essentially editorial in its 
character. After quoting from his correspondent 
the tariff classification of wools, rates of duties and 
& table of wool Imports, the editor says : 
“His object in presenting the statement is to show 
that more than two-thirds of the total Imports of wool 
under the present law. arc nt the merely nominal ninia of 
three and six cents per pound, being worked into Class 
Three for that, purpose. He ascribes this to the character 
of the law, both ill design and execution it* classifica¬ 
tion being novel, and ns lie thinks -wholly arbitrary and 
ineffectual, while the wording is such as to open the third 
class to everything!” 
It will be observed that it is here distinctly 
charged that it is not only the effect, but that it 
was the “ design.^ of the present wool tariff to open 
the door to those stupendous frauds which arc 
alleged to have taken place under its provisions! 
We will not waste time now iu auswering that curi¬ 
ous medley of false facts aud inferences, in respect 
to the tariff classification, which follow—all of them 
being wholly unsupported assumptions founded on 
neither the letter nor spirit of the law. 
The total imports at the ports of New York and 
Boston of Classes 1 and2(“Clothing” aud “Comb¬ 
ing”) wools under the present tariff down to Dec. 
17th, 1867, are given as follows:—0,808,039 pounds, 
value $1,091,818; of Class 3 (“Carpet”) wools, 
15,779,769 pounds, value $2,528,343.* Assuming the 
correctness of these figures, they would seem to 
show that the tariff has effected, very thoroughly, 
the objects avowedly sought by its framers, viz., the 
exclusion from our markets of those foreign wools 
which compete with our own, while the importa¬ 
tion of the non-competing (Carpet) wools is un¬ 
checked. But we are told, as a conclusion derivable 
from the above import statistics, that “the average 
protection afforded to the wool grower by the present 
tariff is a fraction les6 than six and eight-tenths 
cents per pound, specie, taking all sorts of wool 
into account.” This assertion is manifestly incor¬ 
rect, because we grow no Class 3, or Carpet wools, 
in the United States; and having none such to pro¬ 
tect, the duties paid on the foreign ones of this 
Class have nothing to do with aud do not enter 
into the estimate of the ‘‘average jn'otection ’’ afford¬ 
ed to the American grower. But admitting what is 
true (if the Country Gentleman has “ciphered” 
correctly,) that the average duties were hut 6 8-10 
cts. per pound, in specie, it only furnishes additional 
proof of the fact that the Importation of the com 
peting wools, which pay the higher duties, has been 
reduced to a small comparative amount. If the 
foreign Clothing and Combing wools brought into 
the country actually pay the duties contemplated 
by the law—so that the American grower of those 
wools receives his due aud legal protection —of 
what possible consequene.e is it to him what may 
happen to be the average duties paid by wool “ of 
all sorts ?” 
In proof of the charge that the Class 1 and 2 
wools are—according to the “ design ” of the tariff— 
fraudulently “ worked into Class 8 ,” the Country 
Gentleman makes the following statements: 
“If it should be claimed, however, that the two-thirds 
of our imports of woo), thus fihciwu to be brought into 
the country at the lowest rates of duty, are really wools of 
low value, and are charged with all the duty they can bear, 
our correspondent only asks a closer view of t he figures 
given. Fortunately, these include values as well as quan¬ 
tities, and but lew figures are needed to show that the 
6,898,<189 pounds, Imported in classes One and Two, were 
of a sworn average value of n fraction less than 16 cents 
per pound; while the average value of the 15,779,769 
pounds, Imported in class Three, was a fraction over 16 
cents per pound. More remarkable stiff, taking the im- 
Tue Maine Industrial School, —Last season the peo¬ 
ple of Maine, through their authorized agents, commencad 
the accumulation of material and the erection of buildings 
for an Industrial or Agricultural School. By a notice in 
the Maine Farmer of the progress made, we infer that the 
doings of the Executive Board arc not quite satisfactery, 
either a* to the amount of work done or its cost. Tn this 
the people of Maine, as-timing the Farmer to reflect their 
sentiments, do not differ TDtich rrom those In the other 
States where similar institutions are In progress. In cases 
where so many tastes are to bo consulted, U is a difficult 
matter for any body of men, however honest iu inten¬ 
tion. to conduct matters in such a way as to secure oven 
partial approval. 
“ counsels” the “ w’ool growers of the country have 
been guided during the past few years,” aud espe¬ 
cially on the tariff question. The wool tariff was 
promptly aud unanimously endorsed by the Na¬ 
tional Wool Growers’ Association, has received the 
sanction of every State Wool Growers’ Association 
connected with that organization; aud not one Of 
theta hua shown the least disposition to recede from 
that position. On the contrary, all which have held 
their annual meetings recently, have, so far as we 
have observed, reaffirmed their entire confidence in 
the law. How are these Associations constituted ? 
The National Association consists, for the transac¬ 
tion of business, of an Executive Committee com¬ 
prised of au equal number of representatives from 
each State Association—originally the President and 
one additional member from each appointed for the 
purpose, now of the President and two additional 
members from each. This Executive Committee 
elects its own officers, appoints committees, .fee.; 
aud it appointed the original committee which took 
the part already stated in framing the wool tariff. 
The State Associations consist of such friends of the 
wool interest as choose to join them, and we do not 
know of one which is not officered and “guided" by 
the active, enterprising and representative growers of 
its 8tate. 
We mention these facts to show that those who 
have been most actively instrumental in guiding 
public opinion in respect to the wool tariff have not 
been a few persons acting on tlteir own responsibil¬ 
ity, but a large body of men acting in a representa¬ 
tive capacity; and that tlieiraction in the premises, 
whether as committeemen or officers of the National 
and State Associations, has received the full and gen¬ 
erally the unanimous upproj^ tion of those Associa¬ 
tions. Rarely have the leading mends of any special 
industry scattered overso wldft au extent of country, 
co-operated with such entire unanimity in regard to 
legislation deeply affecting their collective and indi¬ 
vidual interests. Is it probable that they have en¬ 
tered into a “design” to cheat themselves; or that 
they have ignorantly sanctioned such a design ? Is 
it probable that these practical and experienced men 
do not understand their own business, and the effects 
of the wool tariff on that business, quite as well as 
an editor who has given such brilliant spec!mens of 
his knowledge on the subject as are contained in the 
article from which wc have quoted ? 
We admit, of course, the perfect right of every 
Agricultural and other public Journalist fairly to 
discuss and express his opinions on the wool tariff 
But before harshly arraigning the action of its 
friends, we think he should at least possess himself 
of a moderate degree of knowledge on the subject. 
And we certainly believe that he has not, except on 
decisive and adduced proof, the right either to throw 
out or endorse scandalous imputations on the motives 
of the friends and framers of that law. 
At a late meeting of the American Institute Club 
this question was propounded : “Is fruit injured by 
the honey-bee extracting honey from the fruit blos¬ 
soms?" No response was made to the inquiry by 
the Institute Club, but the Essex Institute, Salem, 
.Mass., was less reticent. Mr. Putnam, a member, 
took 1,be matter up aud eonteuded “that the visits of 
the bees to the blossom was a positive benefit as far 
as it caused the distribution of the pollen from blcs?* 
som to blossom. The removal of the honey it was 
not probable Mats a loss to the blossom. Mr. Good- 
ell recalled an article in the Naturalist, in which 
the writer hinted that it was a part of the divine 
economy to put in a little honey Into each flower to 
tempt the bees to come and get it, and at the same 
time pay for the honey—a fair bargain—by the labor 
performed in transmitting the pollen.” While 
taking the side of the bees, on this question, Mr. P. 
was free to admit that they were bold and persistent 
thieves, taking sugar or anything sweet without- per¬ 
mission asked and ready to fight on the least hint of 
trespassing on the rights of property. 
American Cheddar Cheese. —C. A., Chicago, III,, allud¬ 
ing to a paragraph in a late nnmber of the Rural in refer¬ 
ence to the American Cheddar cheese exhibited at the 
Htate Fair, remarks“*Sinee tlio cheese are. not large, 
aud small ones are always more salable, why cannot we 
manulaeture that, style as well as the factory size? If it 
is more desirable it must surely bring a larger price. Any 
hints you can give will he eagerly looked for by at least 
one of yotir readers." We give the preceding in the hope 
that if any are posted in the manufacture of “ Cheddar,” 
they will furnish the readers of the Rural the benefit of 
their experience. 
Items prom Dodo-e Co., Wis. —L. L. F. writes ns: 
“For nearly two weeks wo have bad very steady cold 
weather. The thermometer on Sunday and Monday, 12th 
and 13th lasts., at 7 A. M., stood at 16*' below zero, In 
other localities near by it is reported to have been 20° 
below zero. We have but little enow, but there is ice 
and snow enough to make most excellent sleighing. 
Splendid time for battling wood and other team work. 
In our local market spring wheat readily brings $2 per 
bushel, corn $1, butter 30 cents, eggs 26 cents, wood 
$2.76, $4 and $6, for poplar, oak and maple.” 
Yield or a Single Smarm,— M. H. Termant, 
Rome, N. Y., informs us that the product of one 
hive the past season was 110t£ pounds of surplus 
honey. The hive was left iu good condition as to 
winter stores. No bwarint issued from it, and last 
Bpring feeding had to bo resorted to in order to 
bring them through to the time of blossoms. 
^jjricultwntl S?oactifs 
Oreoon State Fair.— A neatly printed copy of the 
proceedings at the Oregon State Fair, October, 1807, has 
been received. It contains the opening address of the 
President, James H. Douthit. the. annual one bv E. B. 
Dufuk, and essays by W T. Nr.wnr on cattle ami horse 
rawing,—deep and shallow culture,—swale lauds, aud the 
management of fern ones. Also an exposition of a great 
wool fraud, and the premium awards of the Board of 
Managers. This was the seventh Annual Fair of the 
State Society, and gave evidence that, though young, 
Oregon is approaching the strength and vigor of maturity. 
Ohio Sidle Board of Agriculture.— Pres’t—Jas. Fulling- 
ton, Irwin Station. Trcas’r—Jas. Buckingham, Zanes¬ 
ville. Sec’y—11. S. Babbitt, Columbus. Cor. Sec’y—J. H. 
Klippnrt, Columbus. The next State Fair was ordered to 
commence Sept 21, aud continue five daye. The location 
is to be competed for by Dayton, Tolodo, Cleveland and 
Columbus. The proposals will be examined on the 15th 
Of Feb., and the location announced on tile 17th of March. 
New York Stale Ag. Society .—The annual meeting of 
this Society will lake place ai Albany on Wednesday, 
Feb. 12th. M’hen the managers will make their reports and 
officers for the ensuing year be elected. An address is 
expected from Elliot C. Cowdin on the Paris Exposition, 
X. A. WiUard on dairy matters, Dr. Fitch on insects, and 
the annual address by President Patrick. 
Iowa Slate Ag. Society —Officers for 1868;— Pres’t— 
Peter Melendy, Cedar Fails, Blackbawk Co. Yice-Pres’t 
-J. D. Wright, Charlton, Lucas Co. Sec’y—J.M. Shaffer, 
Fairfield, Jeff. Co. Treas’r —George Sprangue, island 
Grove, Butler Co. 
Oregon State Ag. Society.— Officers for 186S:—Pres’t— 
A. J. Du fur. Vice Pres’ts—J. G. Basket, W. J. Ilerran. 
Cor Sec’y—A. C. Schwatka. Itec. Sec’y—E. M. Waite. 
Treas’r—J. H- Moores. 
Kansas State Ag. Society.— Pres’t—R. G. Elliott. Sec’y 
—II. J. Stiechter. Tress.— O. B. Lines. 
Chautauqua C'o. —Pres’t —Ira Porter. Vice-Pree’t— 
Henry Bradley. Sec’y & Treas’r—A. Z. Madison. Ass’t 
Sec’y & Reporter—Win. II. Stevens. Ex. Coin.—W. H. 
Stevens, T. S. Hubbard, D. Fairbanks, N. E. Dodge, J. F. 
Wellman, 
Orleans Co.— Pres’t—nezekiah Bowen, Ridgeway. Sec’y 
—Samuel W. Smith, Gaines. Trcas’r — Cyrus Farwell, 
Albion. 
Schuyler Co.— Pres’t— E. C. Frost. Sec’y—E, Ingalls, 
Watkins. Treat,.—J. W. Thompson. The Society has a 
cash balance of $616.25. 
Yates Co. — Pres’t — Thomas J. Lewis, Benton. Vice- 
Preu't—Charles II. Ketchum. Soc’y—Geo. Y. Eastman, 
PennYan. Treas’r—OliverG. Sherman. 
Cattaraugus Co. — Pres’t —C. A. Snow, Conewango. 
B ec ’y_II, S. Huntley, Little Valley Treas’r—E. N. Lee. 
Chenango Co.— Pres’t—Hiram llale, Norwich. Sec’y— 
Gerard S. Mead, Norwich. Treas’r—1, D. Miller. 
Aft-on (Chenango Co.)— Pres’t—Peter L. Merritt. Vice- 
Pres’t—Gefi, W. Knight. Sec’y—G. M. Champliu. Treas’r 
—J. C’. Chamberlain. Marshal—Col. A. C. Hyde. 
Berkshire Co., Mass— Pres’t— Richard Goodman, Lenox. 
Vice-Pros’ts—A. J. Bucklin, So. Adams; Geo. T. Plun¬ 
kett, Iliusdale. Sec'y-Johu E. Merrill, Pittsfield. Treas 
—Henry M. Pierson, Pittsfield. Executive Com.—W. H. 
Carson, Hinsdale; T. D, Thatcher, Leo; Daniel Foot, 
Pittsfield; L. S. Bntler, Lenox. 
Lee Co. (//(.)—I’res't—Fred. W. Coe, Palmyra. Sec’y— 
Joseph T. Little, Treas’r—Jason C. Ayers. A resolu¬ 
tion adverse to the exhibition of horse speed, aud all out- 
Illinois Industrial University.— The Chicago Tri¬ 
bune says that the Regent and all the Professors in this 
institution are preachers—as “guiltless of special capa¬ 
bility, outside of clerical duties, ns any like number of 
men in the State can be." The same papor closes by 
saying:—“Men of Illinois, your University, for which 
yon have toiled so long, is, thus far, a farce." 
To Advertisers.— Over two columns of now advertise¬ 
ments intended for this number arc necessarily deferred. 
Onr friends will remember our rule, “first come, first in¬ 
serted, ’—and moreover that, (though dated on Saturday, 
the Kurai. goes to press on Tuesday, rendering it neces¬ 
sary to close its advertising department on Monday. 
RURAL BRIEF- MENTI0NINGS, 
Rochester, Jau. 28,— Weather cold—good sleighing. 
The 11 January thaw” changed ton “ freeze," last, week. 
The amount of cheese now in store iu the N. Y. market 
is estimated at nearly 490,000 boxes. 
A man in Indiana counted the kernels on an ear of 
18-rowed corn, and found the number to be 1,1-12. 
A dose of equal parts of Brahma and Silver Poland, is 
said to be beneficial iu some stages of the bun fever. 
The mau who will invent, a plan for occasionally water¬ 
ing animals on the cars will )><• a beastly benefactor. 
It is said that, the N, Y market has been so crowded 
with poultry for a while back that much of it had to go 
into store for a time. 
A Mu, Thompson of Suit on Island, made an attempt to 
preserve pears by capping in paratlne and inclosing in 
casks. The experiment failed. 
It is proposed by some lovers of good, clean poultry, to 
seek the enactment of a law prohibiting the sale of un¬ 
drawn fowls iu the N. Y. market. 
In England many farmers support large families on the 
produce of six English acres of land, besides paying heavy 
taxes. Many iu Germany do even better than thug 
Last season a swarm of bees domiciled in the walls of 
the house of a fanner none Northampton, Mass.., and re¬ 
cently he took 125 lbs. of honey from the squatters. 
The French batchers, to save them pain, have adopted 
a kind of guillotine for severing the heads pf animate from 
their bodies, instead of knocking them in the head. 
Wood can be hauled from the forest for summer use 
cheaper in winter than in haying and harvest time. True, 
it is cold now, but it will be uncomfortably hot then. 
A farmer who sleeps till eight o'clock of a winter 
morning may save some fire in the house, but his hungry 
stockin' the barn anil go back enough to balance iliac. 
Oun eastern exchanges are sanguine that the rivers of 
New England will sooii be alive again with salmon, trout, 
shad, etc., by the aid of the new process of propagation. 
Egos will keep a long time ifirnmerecrl in melted tallow 
or lard. It should be quite warm. This closes the pores 
ol' the shells and retards the action of air upon the eggs. 
The Maine Farmer suggests that if muck were gene¬ 
rally used iu the bills when planting potatoes, and less 
manure, a bettor article for the table would be produced. 
The people of Maine are putting on airs because of the 
rising reputation of thefrgranice quarries. The “ Granite 
State" will have to "doff its bonuet" to this new com¬ 
petitor for hard honors. 
C. C. Bingham, McGrawviUe, N. Y,, claims to have dis¬ 
covered tm “lerial fountain” — a method of producing 
water from the atmosphere, pure aud fresh, for household 
purposes and for ships. 
It having been stated that Henry Ward B e e c her 
cleared $37,000 from Ids farm last season, an exchange in¬ 
timates that it must have been from the culture of sheep 
on the Plymouth farm 1 
An English former named May has experimented with 
potatoes for some time, and arrives at the conclusion that 
the product of any given planting will he in proportion to 
the weight of seed used. 
The estimated expenses of the Agricultural Bureau at 
Washington for the ensuing year are: Experimental gar¬ 
den, $11,000; collecting statistics. $10,000; salaries, $03,- 
6 )0; seeds, $40,000. Total, $127,640. 
The Cornell University, to go into operation in Sept., 
begins with a Faculty costing $40,000 per annum. Ac¬ 
commodations for 1,000 students will be provided. The 
farm, buildings aud apparatus cost $250,000. 
cents per pound. More remarkable stiff, taking the im¬ 
ports at Boston by themselves, (Yankee trade is proverbi¬ 
ally’cute,) we find that the value of the 2,108,24s pound* 
Imported at that port, in classes One and Two averaged 
Uj£ cents per pound; while the 2,628,880 pounds, of the 
Third class, averaged nineteen and a haf cents— in other 
words. Hull the cheap and course “carpet wools,” which 
alone were to be admitted at a low duty, really cost the 
enterprising Boston merchant a price mern than one-third 
higher than be paid for the raw material of velvety broad¬ 
cloths and lustrous alpacas I If it is claimed that, owing 
to the ad valorem rates in classes One and Two, and not. 
in class Three, values in the latter are given more correct¬ 
ly (aud thus higher.) than in the former, we do not, see 
that this helps the matter at alt—It is only confessing to 
sharp practice or another kind, ami is rattier increasing 
than diminishing the evils for which our correspondent, 
criticizes the present law," 
The whole of this argument rests on two assump- 
1 . That Class 3 wools must necessarily, 
N. II. Nye, keeper of the toll-gate on East avenue, 
Brighton, sends us an account of his hen operations 
for the year ending Jan. 31st, 1807. The account 
stands thus: 
DR. 
To 57 fowls @ 50c. $28 50 
;i cock. 1 00 
Feed for the year. 100 30 
OR. 
Feb., By 5 cocks sold.$ 4 25 
June. “ 85 small chickens sold. 3 50 
Sept., " 90 large “ “ . 36 00 
" “ Eggs sold, 425 doz. 113 75 
Dec., “ Fowls on baud. 36 50 
—-$194 00 
Deduct stock and cost. 138 80 
Profit one year...$ 55 20 
These fowls were Brahma aud a part a cross bo- 
tween these and the Black Spanish. They were fed 
principally on corn, buckwheat and screenings, 
with an occasional additiou of meal and middlings 
infixed and fed warm. Also pounded oyster shells, 
bones, tallow, scraps of meat, &c. The manure is 
considered an equivalent for the trouble of feeding. 
tious 
under a proper valuation at the Custom Houses, 
be cheaper than Class 1 and 2 wools; 2. That the 
real or ostensible intent of the tariff is to levy 
duties on all the foreign wools indiscriminately iu 
proportion to tlieir value. 
On the first head, no more satisfactory test, on 
the whole, of actual relative value can he furnished, 
than the prevailing market, prices of the leading 
kinds of foreign wool iu New York and Boston, in 
1867.f We take the following from the wool circu¬ 
lar of Walter Brown & Co. of New York: 
Class 1, or Clothing Wools. 
April 1. June 1 ■ Aug. 1. Dec. 2, 
Cape of Good nope, ...87 to 42 37 to 42 39 to 43 $40 to 45 
Buenos Ayres Merino, .32 to 38 32 to 38 32 to 38 32 to 38 
Class 3, or Carpet Wools. 
DonBkoi washed...43 to 50 43 to 60 43 to 47 40 to45 
Scattering sales of other Clothing and Carpet 
wools, and also of Combing wools, are mentioned 
in the same circulars, but uot in sufficient amounts 
to be quoted in the column of established prices. 
The following are from the weekly circulars of 
Lawrence, Wright & Goodwin of Boston. We 
* TU„ duties lire ns follows, according to value at last port nr plaro 
whenrt export.'!) to tiro United State*, including cliargee md] port: 
Class 1. —value S2 rents or less, 10 rents per pound, mid 11 per cent, ad 
valorem; Over 81 cents, 12 oeide, and to per cunt, ad valorem. Class S.— 
V»lue US' cento or less, it) (Wilts, anti 11 per rent, ad valorem i over 32 centa, 
to rents i.r.d 10 per cent, ad valorem. Class 3.—Value 12 rents or lees, 
POULTRY —YEARLY ACCOUNT 
