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removed, an even quality of wool is left in the fleece. The 

 fleece is then graded into one of several grades according to 

 length, fineness, shrinkage, and character. The fleece is not 

 tied before baling. When opened in the East the wool has lost 

 nothing by baling and makes a good appearance. 



The Australian system, so-called because it is universally 

 practiced by Australian wool growers, is educational to the 

 western wool grower who learns much regarding the kinds and 

 values of wools produced by his sheep, and it eliminates the 

 usual further handling undergone by most clips in dealers' ware- 

 houses before sale to manufacturers is attempted. Many 

 growers realize for the first time the great amount of clothing 

 wool they are producing and realize as well the variety of grades 

 of wool that come from sheep of supposedly uniform type but 

 in the breeding of which they had not adhered to a distinct 

 standard of fleece in the selection of rams. 



Advantage of pooling farm-grown wools. During the last 

 few years a few counties in the farming states have marketed 

 their wools through their farm bureaus on a pooling basis. In 

 1915, Otsego County, N. Y., pooled and sold 20,000 pounds of 

 wool at an advance of 4^ cents per pound over prices offered 

 at the same time by the local dealers. Because of the success 

 of this method of marketing, Ohio and Iowa have organized 

 state wool growers' associations with the object of pooling all 

 the wool of the state. The plan is meeting with marked success. 

 Under this plan of selling collectively small lots of farm wools, 

 it becomes practicable to do the grading needed to secure fair 

 prices to all members. The farmer who produces a good clip 

 of wool will receive a just price instead of the usual flat price 

 offered by the local dealer for all fleeces, good, bad, and indif- 

 ferent. 



Mohair. This is the product of the Angora goat. The fiber 

 is coarse, very long, exceedingly lustrous, and has very little 

 crimp. It is used in the manufacture of braids, felts, linings, 

 and plushes. It is also used extensively as a substitute for 

 human hair in switches and wigs. 



