Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1887 — Exhaustive Statistics on Wool. [ARTICLE]

Exhaustive Statistics on Wool.

Col. Switzler, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, says a Washington dispatch, announces that he will soon have ready for distribution a work of great importance to the manufacturing as well as the agricultural element of tbe country, it will be a statistical analysis of the wool industries of every country of the world, in which will be incorporated all the various acts of Congress relating to the tariff on wool and woolen manufactures from the time that the tax of 1793 was imposed down to the latest revision of 1883. A brief history of the enormous strides made in wool-grow-ing and wool-manufacturing will be a feature of the report, and everything of valne to the farmer and manufacturer in connection with wool which can possibly be inserted in a work of this character will be added.