Types and market classes of live stock . ^^^y °»« g-^de ^^ ^^g^^) ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ clothing JHalf-blood staple Half-blood clothing Three-eighths-blood staple Three-eighths-blood clothing Quarter-blood staple Quarter-blood clothing, or short Low quarter-blood staple quarter-blood Coarse, common, low, or 1 .i. , braid | often one grade Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 263 As previously explained, combing wools are at least 2J^inches long without stretching, while clothing wools are all underthat length. It will be noticed that much the same names aregiven to the grades within each class. The
Types and market classes of live stock . ^^^y °»« g-^de ^^ ^^g^^) ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ clothing JHalf-blood staple Half-blood clothing Three-eighths-blood staple Three-eighths-blood clothing Quarter-blood staple Quarter-blood clothing, or short Low quarter-blood staple quarter-blood Coarse, common, low, or 1 .i. , braid | often one grade Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 263 As previously explained, combing wools are at least 2J^inches long without stretching, while clothing wools are all underthat length. It will be noticed that much the same names aregiven to the grades within each class. The term staple asapplied to territory wools means the same as the term combingwool If a Merino sheep east of the Missouri river grows a fleecethat measures at least 2Yi inches long without stretching, it. Fig. 84. Grades of Combing Wool. Fine combing at left and half-blood combing at right. grades as Delaine on the wool market. The same sheep west ofthe river grows a fleece that grades as Fine Staple or Fine MediumStaple. The Fine Staple or Fine Medium Staple fleece has agreater shrinkage than the Delaine fleece. This is the maindistinction between the two. When scoured, the wools havemuch the same value. The eastern wool may be somewhatstronger, but in a general way the wool is the same in bothfleeces. 264 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock If a Merino sheep in the east grows a fleece less than 234inches long, it grades as XX or X, or as Fine Unwashed. Mar-ket usage has decreed that XX and X as grade names shall beused only in referring to washed clothing wools. XX is a some-what finer wool than X. Fine Unwashed corresponds to XXand X, but shrinks more in scouring. The same sheep in thewest grows a fleece that grades as Fine Clothing or Fine MediumClothing. Fine Clothing correspon
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