Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    has been crossed too broadly between coarse and fine, takes out the coarse piece which remains on the upper part of the neck, running up between the ears. The classification terms and names for these several kinds of wool vary in different localities. The following are the Yorksliire terms for clothing sorts, the first four being the choicest. 1. Finest picklocks. 2. Prime and pick. 3. Choice. 4. Super. 5. Headwool. 6. Downrights. 7. Seconds, from the throat and breast. 8. Abb, or an inferior sort. 9. Long livery, coarse belly wool, 10. Livery. 11. Grey. 12. Short coarse, from the breech. The classification of the woolstapler is, to a certain extent, founded upon the difference of quaUty of wool arising from the parts of the body whence it is obtained; for example, that on the sides of the neck and shoulders, the ribs and back, is, as has been already stated, the finest part of the fleece ; and next to this comes that which covers the thighs. But difference of race has also to do with the classification, for the wool on the breast of one sheep may be equal to that on the back of another; hence it is often not so much the object to separate the wools of the different parts of the body, as to put all the wool which may be adapted for one particular purpose by itself. A good fleece would generally come under the first four divisions, although portions might even belong to the sixth or seventh. The deep combing sorts of wool are thus classed : Long coarse. Saycast. Lusty. Long Neate, Long Drawing. Fine Drawing. Country Long Drawing. Country Fine Drawing. The following is the subdivision of a Soudidown tegg fleece