fixed in type. 
LESSON TWENTY-TWO 
WOOL AND MUTTON 
. Ancestry. 
. Qualities in common. 
Wool. 
. Two principal classes of wool. 
. How wool grows. 
Yolk. 
. Washing and shearing. 
. Handling wool. 
. Mutton. 
. Quality of mutton. 
. Mutton carcass. ; 
. Desirable kind of sheep. 
. Cuts of mutton. 
. Hothouse lambs. 
Market classes of sheep. 
Note to the Teacher.—From the earliest ages the sheep 
has been a source of profit to mankind, and its keeping 
and rearing an important industry. As civilization pro- 
gressed stage by stage, and the manufacture of garments 
of wool displaced those of skin, careful breeding began 
to improve the fleece, and varieties among sheep became 
Later on, as people became more settled 
in their occupations, cities were built and demands for 
mutton increased, until at the present day it is greater 
than the supply. 
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