APPENDIX C. 



Bureau of Education, 

 Manila, October 2, 1913. 



Circular "| 



No. 148, s. 1913. 



CLASSIFICATION OF PHILIPPINE INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS. 



To division superintendents: 



The need of some definite scheme for the classification of industrial 

 fibrous materials of the Philippines has become insistent. This need 

 arises from the fact that the same fiber has been assigned to 

 different classes by various writers and as a result references to and 

 orders for materials are frequently misunderstood. To overcome 

 this difficulty, an outline has been drawn up in which an attempt is 

 made to assign each of the important industrial materials to a definite 

 class. The class names thus established will hereafter be used by 

 this Bureau. 



The classification which is here made is, no doubt, like other clas- 

 sifications, more or less arbitrary. However, this outline is based 

 primarily upon what is believed to be the most important considera- 

 tion; namely, the use of the industrial material. Its appearance and 

 derivation are considered as of secondary importance. 



All available authorities have been consulted in drawing up this 

 outline, in order that usage in the Philippines may conform as closely 

 as possible to that of systems established elsewhere. 



Frank L. Crone, 



Director of Educaton. 



CLASSIFICATION OF SOME PHILIPPINE INDUSTRIAL 

 MATERIALS. 



1. STRAWS. 



The whole round stalks of grasses, sedges, rushes, and the like 

 which are pliable enough to be platted, or the same when split but 

 curled round like whole stalks. 

 1. Grass straws: 



(a) Rice straw. 

 (6) Wheat straw. 

 (c) Cobboot straw, 

 (c?) Bacuit straw. 

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