Wool Growers Becoming Prosperous Under The New Tariff Bill

The adverse tariff legislation of 1883, arrested the development of our woolgrowing industry, and started it on the decline which has since continued. The triumph of protection in the Presidential election of 1888, which gave the assurance that the errorsin the wool schedule of the tariff of 1883, would becorrected, as has actually been done by the McKinley bilí, has started wool growing on an upward course again. The latest issue from the Department of Agriculture brings the gratifying intelligence to farmers that " the increased interest in eheep and wool, noted a year ago, has been continued, and this has been probably the most profitable branch of our stock industry during the year," and that " decline in wool próduction, which began with the slaughter of flocka in 1884-'85 [i. e., after the adverse tariff of 1883 went in effect,] has been checked, the aggregate clip for 1890 (fall of 1889 and spring of 1890) being estimated at 276,000,000 pounds ; an increase of 11,000,000 pounds over the previous season." Protection, and not free wool was the remedy for declining wool production.