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Show THEY DEFY IMITATION. Invention Can S apply No Substitute! For Whalebone or Teazel. With all our boasted labor saving machinery and modern inventions there are numerous articles entering into the economy of manufacture which seem crude and simple, but which defy improvement. im-provement. No one, for instance, has ever been able to find a substitute for whalebone. With the diminution of the supply and the enormously increased cost of the article, ar-ticle, scores of inventors have turned their attention to the article and attempted at-tempted to supply a substitute, but up to the present time nothing as durable, tough and pliable as whalebone has resulted. re-sulted. Another article without which no woolen manufacturer could prepare certain goods for the market is the tea-Eel. tea-Eel. It is absolutely essential in raising rais-ing a nap on cassimeres and soft woolen wool-en fabrics, and although Bcores of imitation imi-tation teazles have been invented none is found to give the satisfaction of the odd little burr, with its stiff little hooks, which is so extensively exported and cultivated for the cloth finishing trade. PersonB who have never seen a teazel can imagine a fur cone, set all over with little barbs. It is really a bnrr, or flower head, or thistle top of the plant dipsacus, and so identified is it with cloth dressing, and so long and so general has been the use of the teazel for the purpose mentioned, that it is even reflected in its botanical name, Dipsacus f ullonum, or fuller's teazel. " However familiar the teazel may be to persons familiar with woolen manufacture, manu-facture, or to those who live in countries coun-tries where it is extensively cultivated, the fact remains that the great majority major-ity of persons have never heard of such an article and will be astonished to learn in what enormous quantities they are raised. , In France alone 6,000 acres of land are exclusively devotedto the cultivation cultiva-tion of the teazel. French manufacturers manufac-turers use annually nearly $2,000,000 worth of the prickly heads and export during the same period upward of 60,-000 60,-000 tons, valued at $2,500.00. When it is considered that a teazel weighs not more than an ordinary burdock, the vast quantity exported can be realized in part. In addition to the French crop, which is the most highly esteemed, teazels are produced in enormous quantities in Austria, England, Belgium, Poland and tho Crimea. Until recently they did not grow satisfactorily in the United Unit-ed States, but now they are quite extensively ex-tensively grown in Oneida county, in this state, and possibly elsewhere, and it is said return a fair profit to the cultivator cul-tivator for the outlay of money. The prickles of the teazel have a Email knob at the end, and this mounted mount-ed on an elastic stem, and set with great precision on the central spindle, which, revolving, claws the surface of the cloth, raises a nap which mechanical mechan-ical contrivances have always failed in equaling, New York Herald. |