ENGLISH WOOL.
At the Centenary show of the Suffolk Agricultural Society one group of women weavers shared a tent and exhibit with the organization for selling the fleeces of Suffolk Down sheep. Now these local weavers take advantage, for the most part, of local wools. Some of the Welsh weavers make delightfully patterned shawls in several colours without the use of any dye, by cunning selection of the natural wool of local breeds of sheep. The weavers begin to exert some little influence on the recovery of the reputation of British fleeces, which have been too much despised as a source of income. There is such a thing as a silver if not a golden fleece, as well as " the golden hoof," of which arable farmers delight to talk—which, indeed, the continent regard as singularly characteristic of British farming.
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