TWENTY YEARS' IN THE WOOL BUSINESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 285, 30 June 1875, Page 2

TWENTY YEARS' IN THE WOOL BUSINESS.

I If luyi'diie.made’'’the pi*d<liritlW-‘M’ 1.854 that in twenty years from ,,l tha# tim i California wouM'feid, al 1 other , ( Bta ;es in“W'< t ib'l J exp arts in lf>H-JgJfWrf<W»p n V° more an: i eight' 1 ; ‘dollars, lie would vs fouriil few men sanguine enough to indorse Tus proposition. '.TEri.wKeat exp tftti eicfetilleilWi' 1 ixjlbrts or wool. . , Ii 1854, the export of wool amounted* to j 75,0001bs valued .Mi dols • T te growth of' tbe wool interest in this State mw tfeeri vrit-y rapid, and we rjudge it-will continue for the next ten years. The ch&pfir Affl laildG St for -grazing sheep have been largely taken up- Jmfoiet.ia grqafe Ateal'ioibwioelriliSl been .produced,.by.■pantiesiwho; did ndt j>wn a foot of land;‘‘''' l They 'boilgliF sheep, sought out unocciipied'“laiM,'.' and moved * ft'oln-dnri jjlAce to another .Wtheylfound fresher"phstttfdfe”IThen the material and bulk of wool has been greatly im-neased late by large purchasers ' of 'thoroughbred ,sh,e,ep,.' zbji tvb'fcli' f ffoieks j/ haffeHirin' graded up to a hi^h 1 stantfa/d. CaliA.;P .■;;--.zi',T<.'lz.:D a

fenia is one of the best markets open for the sale of high-priced thoroughbrel sheep. Some of the more wealthy wod-growers are not staggered at any priie if they find thoroughbred sheep to suit them. They probably find thiir account in these purchases, or thiy would not make them. If a wiolgrower can increase his fleece on eaih of ten thousand sheep half a piund a year, he knows well enough tlat the thousand dollars which he pays for a single thoroughbred sheep yill all come back to him. ' ,1 Ttie 'iroul'liJteiesi' iH tu lw IMtfMy increased hereafter by. the remarkable (uccejsGif 'alftflfa, wfiidtf will’ Enable folders, of small tragts_tp„ »ftkg_th£pi 'more available for wool growing than many of tiiW rough tirths ttf much fianc-Jiefii r'ri'iß rbw/abapdujwi; 'but; a great many persons ,v'ill elgct to take t;he smaller tracts nearer fo town, and ’britig''thdttl 'Ap't6 the' Tftbacity 6t thb' large ranges fori’ riobl-growing purposes. -Tflri faitlirig' 'if 1 'thordrigti'bred ftjpufl W>l??c<wtegi iiiWß'tant >: industry in California. Whep we nriairiUti'ese fancy sheep farmer# tplk- , aboii’tvlo,tiw ‘aWr. Aaiii moderate '■ Price for a small , (group ; yf sheep ■ numbering hardly 'two’hundred, ye „ Jet' ri Wbbienfilitids rirWriGigrowing, and of Gild 'dktent of that ‘ interest in this State at the end of