Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — The Teasle. [ARTICLE]

The Teasle.

t No machine has yet taken the place „qf nature’s teasle. in vaffidus grades of woolen cloths, In jliis ppuntfy they aye grown only iq" Onondaga County, New'iork State, though a <Cw; haveibien thised lb Oregbn. Tdasles require d soil of-elayand’ lime in . certain proportions so that their tips shall be sharper than steel. Such soil is founjl iq Marcellus und Skhteeateles, where they have been a staple production for fifty years. Teasles are also grown in England and France. The English, softer than the French. When the foreign crop fails the American is drawn on. This year the European is small, the American large—, nearly 250,000.000.—Baltimore Sun.