No factory had made over _Ten_ thousand in a year; they were always classed with wooden nutmegs and wooden cucumber seeds, and could not be introduced into other countries to any advantage.

But this was not the only trouble; being on water long as they would have to be, would swell the wood of the wheels and ruin the clock.

Here then we had the eight day brass clock costing about twenty dollars; the idea had always been that a brass clock must be an eight day, and all one day should be of wood, and the plan of a brass one day had never been thought of.
In 1835, the southern people were greatly opposed to the Yankee pedlars coming into their states, especially the clock pedlars, and the licences were raised so high by their Legislatures that it amounted to almost a prohibition.

Their laws were that any goods made in their own States could be sold without licence.

Therefore clocks to be profitable must be made in those states.