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In the Saxon Flocks, this is not the case. Mr Koelz thinks them the purest & the best to breed from.
He is of opinion, that the quantity of middling Wool is increasing, but not more rapidly than the consumption.
Very fine Wool, he considers to be decreasing in quantity, and is of opinion, that the present rate of prices cannot pay the German Proprietor, for the cost of production - so much greater expense being incurred, in the Management of the very best flocks, than in those of moderate quality. The Manufacture of Cloth is increasing very much, throughout Germany.
Poland consumes for her own manufactures, nearly all the Wool she produces. Russia, has, of late years, become a considerable purchaser of Wool from Germany. and her Cloth Manufactures appear to be