The author established and since its inception has been in
charge of the first industrial school for boys and girls in
Massachusetts. At an early date he recognized the need of
special text-books to meet the demand of young people who are
attending vocational schools. There are plenty of books written
on textiles for technical school students and advanced workers.
But the author has failed to find a book explaining the
manufacture and testing of textiles for commercial, industrial,
domestic arts, and continuation schools, and for those who have
just entered the textile or allied trades. and and Scotland.
Carpet wools approach more nearly to hair than other wools. The
only staple of this class produced in the United States is grown
on the original Mexican sheep of the great Southwest. Few of
these Mexican sheep are left, for they have been improved by
cross breeding, but they constitute the foundation stock of most
of our Western flocks, which now produce superior clothing and
combing wool. =Sheep Shearing.= I