. Loyal citizenship. American Mouhii Coinpan>/ Fig. 9. Sorting and grading wool at a mill in Massachusetts. Theoccupation of these expert judges of wool is very different from thatof the ranchers, yet it contributes to the same end. other villages salt fish or yet anothers tanned hides;and so cooperation among men has extended untiltoday the very clothes we wear are the product ofevery clime and represent the labor of ten thousandhands. The story of a woolen suit. Up on the highlandsof southern Wyoming are a lonely sheep herder andhis flock. We shall not try to trace the career of thesheep
. Loyal citizenship. American Mouhii Coinpan>/ Fig. 9. Sorting and grading wool at a mill in Massachusetts. Theoccupation of these expert judges of wool is very different from thatof the ranchers, yet it contributes to the same end. other villages salt fish or yet anothers tanned hides;and so cooperation among men has extended untiltoday the very clothes we wear are the product ofevery clime and represent the labor of ten thousandhands. The story of a woolen suit. Up on the highlandsof southern Wyoming are a lonely sheep herder andhis flock. We shall not try to trace the career of thesheep herder, although it took the cooperation ofmany people to get him and his outfit on the dipping time he drives the sheep to the dippingvats; at shearing time to the shearing pens. Herethe brawny hands of others are brought into action. Cooperalion in Uor/c. I, II I omjn Fir,. 10. Sj)inninp; woolen yarn. Those inlricatP and costly spinningframes eUect an enormous economy of lahor. Tlieir product entersinto the clothinj; of millions of people. We could not have suchmachines if it were not for capital. The sheared wool, in bags, is carried perhaps fiftymiles by motor truck to a railway station. Therethe bags are loaded on a car, which in turn becomespart of a train, and the sliipinenl starts for Ciiicagoor Boston. A multitude of brains and hands help torun the series of railroads over which the wooljourneys. Once arrived at the railroad terminal, thebags of wool are bumped over the pavements, againby truck, to a great wool warehouse. Thence thebags go to a woolen mill, perhaps in Massachusetts,where the wool is ptit lliroiigli processes wliicli makeit first into varn and tlien into cloth. There are 18 Loyal Citizenship
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