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reduced to simplest terms, these quotations indicate the classes 

 and grades of wool to be as follows : 2 



Classifications and Grades of Wools Produced by Flocks in the 

 Eastern, Middle Western, and Southern Parts of the United 

 States. 



Combing Wools 

 Delaine, the finest combing wool; sometimes quoted as fine Delaine and 



medium Delaine. 

 Half-blood. 

 Three-eighths-blood. 

 Quarter-blood. 

 Low quarter-blood. 

 Braid, the coarsest combing wool. 



Clothing Wools 



XX and X, washed or fine unwashed; the XX and X are used almost 

 exclusively to refer to wool from sheep that were washed before shearing. 

 Half-blood clothing. 

 Three-eighths-blood clothing. 

 Quarter-blood clothing. 



At one time these last three terms were supposed to refer to wool from 

 sheep of half, three-eighths, and one-quarter blood Merino but they have 

 no such significance now. 



Classifications and Grades of Wools Produced on the Ranges 

 of the Weist and Southwestern Parts of the United States.' 



Combing Wools 

 Fine staple ) 



Fine medium staple | Usua11 ^ one 

 Half-blood staple. 

 Three-eighths-blood staple. 

 Quarter-blood staple ) 

 Low quarter-blood staple | 

 Coarse, common, low, or braid. 



" Staple " as applied to wools coming in the above classification refers 

 to combing wools. 



2 See U. S. Agr. Bulletin No 206 by F. R Marshall and L. L Heller. 



