THE WOOL BOOK 4754 A Statistical Manual CONTAINING The Latest Official Information of the Production, Movement, and Consumption of Wool in all Countries, Wool and Woolens Tariff of 1890, Manufacturing Tables, etc., etc. ERRATA. Table 1, page 15.- Estimate of pounds of wool grown in 1891 should read 307,401,507. Table 23, page 37 - The value of clothing imported in 1891 should read $2,107,232, and the duties collected $1,524,947. Table 25, page 37. Previous to 1891 all flannels were reported together; in 1891, flannels for underwear only are here reported, all others are included with Dress Goods, table 26, page 38. Table 28, page 39. — Under rulings of the Board of General Appraisers, a portion of the Knit Goods imported are reported under the head of Clothing, table 23, page 37. Table 29, page 39. — Rags, Shoddy, etc., imported in 1890, should read- quantity, 4,985,266 pounds; value $2,037,731; duties collected, $498,527. Table 29 includes not only rags and shoddy, but noils and all descriptions of wool wastes. Table 33, page 40. To this table should be added in 1891, Plushes and Pile Fabrics, 204,333 pounds; value, $171,890; duty, $204,378. Worcester, Mass., U. S. A. The Original and most Extensive Works LOOMS FOR COTTONADES. CASSIMERES. DRESS GOODS DUCK THE WOOL BOOK 4.124 A Statistical Manual CONTAINING The Latest Official Information of the Production, of 1890, Manufacturing Tables, FOR MANUFACTURERS, DEALERS, GROWERS, IMPORTERS, COMPILED FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOOL MANUFACTURERS BY S. N. D. NORTH Secretary Copyright, 1892 BOSTON THE ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL PRESS 1892 WE CLAIM FOR OUR LOOM: 1. Making Superior Goods by reason of its open shed peculiarity. 2. Freedom from Mispicks by reason of its positive motion, both on the harnesses and boxes. 3. The facility with which the pick is found, when lost by reason of the breaking of filling. 4. The box chain controls the boxes positively, and will call any one designated by the chain without any setting of cams or lifters. The boxes at each end are operated independently of each other, so as to use conveniently seven shuttles. 5. Great speed, on account of the peculiar harness and box motion which enables the loom to produce a large per cent. more goods than any other fancy loom. 6. Saving in power, on account of only moving such harnesses as are required in the pattern at each pick. KNOWLES LOOM WORKS. Cor. Grand and Tainter Sts., Send for Circular. 6 WORCESTER, MASS. A.V.M PREFACE. THE National Association of Wool Manufacturers has been led to the publication of this volume by the great need, long felt, for a manual of authentic wool statistics, similar to Cotton Facts," annually published for fifteen years by Mr. A. B. Shepperson, of New York. It has seemed to the management of the Association that in no other way can it better serve the interests of the industry, than by authorizing this publication, with an assurance of its accuracy. More and more, as time passes, the great industries are conducted on the basis of accurate statistical information of the production, movement, and consumption of raw material and product; and the wool trade and manufacture are greatly handicapped in the United States by the lack of a standard compendium of the data relating to wool. The great bulk of the information contained in this volume is almost daily required in some branch of the wool business, and has hitherto been accessible only in trade circulars, or widely scattered through official documents hard to obtain. The aim has been to make a book easily carried in the pocket, and yet containing every item of statistical information ordinarily required in the course of his business by the wool manufacturer, the wool grower, the wool buyer, the wool importer or broker, the commission merchant, the mill agent, superintendent or overseer, the manufacturer or dealer in mill supplies, the statistician, and the public man. Its contents include all available data regarding the wool clip of every country, the consumption of all manufacturing nations, the prices of wools for a long series of years, the export and import trade of the wool manufacturing nations, and especially the imports of wool and woolens into the United States. To these |