requirement per capita has risen to six pounds. The immense amount of fiber in cast-off clothing does not find its way into the paper mills, but rather into the shoddy mill, where it is remanufactured into cloth again, or where part of the fiber is mixed with good wool to make “pure wool” cloth. In other words, the rapidly changing styles of to-day and the limited supply of wool are responsible for the wholesale adulteration which is being practised in modern cloth manufacture. This adulteration furthermore is becoming more and more difficult to detect by reason of the rapid improvements made in the finishing processes of cloth manufacture. Hence the necessity for people to know how and why adulteration occurs, how it affects prices, and what are the means of detecting it. Shoddy is considered a legitimate adulteration in woolen and worsted goods. The following adulterations are not legitimate unless sold as such:
1. Cotton combed with wool.
2. Thin cotton threads twisted in with worsted during the process of drawing.
3. Cotton threads of the same color as the wool or worsted used as filling or warp.
4. Cotton veneered with wool.
5. Cotton threads of the same color as wool used in weaving.
FOOTNOTE:
[14] Tentering is carried on in the English mills.