32 BULLETIN 313, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



Agricultural college students also receive instruction upon the breed- 

 ing and rearing of sheep, though in these lines also most of the time 

 and attention is devoted to practical work. The agricultural college 

 courses are planned equally for prospective farmers and pastor alists. 

 Apart from the agricultural colleges, instruction pertaining to 

 wools is included among the subjects offered in the technical colleges, 

 schools, and trade schools, of which each State has its own system. 

 New South Wales has 3 technical day schools with two-year courses, 

 and 2 trade schools. In Victoria 20 technical schools receive State 

 aid and 7 of them teach trade subjects. About 40 students were 

 attending classes in wool classing and sorting at the Working Men's 

 College in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1914. The course in wools offered 

 by this college covers two years, students attending 27 hours per week 

 for 40 weeks each year. The work is divided into three grades, out- 

 lined as follows: 



FIRST GRADE. 



To point out any portion of the fleece. 



To skirt a fleece properly. 



To roll a fleece properly. 



To sort skirtings according to their commercial value, making " necks," 

 " broken," " first," " second," and " stained " pieces and " locks," and be able to 

 sort 40 pounds in 30 minutes. 



To skirt " bellies " and remove stains where necessary. 



To explain what is understood by the terms " combing " and " clothing," and 

 to divide the wool into these two classes. 



SECOND GRADE. 



To be thoroughly competent in all first-grade work. 



To distinguish the following descriptions of wool : Merino, greasy and scoured ; 

 comeback, greasy and scoured; quarter-bred, greasy and scoured; half-bred, 

 greasy and scoured; three-quarters bred, greasy and scoured; and Lincoln, 

 greasy and scoured. 



To class wool into these qualities. 



To be able to sort 28 pounds per hour into these qualities. 



To explain the means used in preparing wools for market, as, for instance, 

 " greasy," " scoured," and " fellmongered " wool. 



To be able practically to class crossbred fleece and lambs' wool into their 

 respective grades ready for the market, and to class Merino wool, making the 

 distinction between " combing," " clothing," and " tender " wool. 



To explain how " crossbred " and " comeback " wools are produced, illus- 

 trating by specimens of wool what each crossing will produce. 



THIRD GRADE. 



To be thoroughly competent in all first and second grade work. 



To sort Merino and crossbred wools into all their lengths and qualities. 



To sort lambs' wool, either Merino or crossbred, into all its trade qualities. 



To sort crossbred and Merino fleeces into trade qualities. 



To give an approximate yield of clean wool from greasy. 



