320 THE WOOL CROP 



Clothing Wools 

 Fine clothing. 

 Fine medium clothing. 

 Half-blood clothing. 

 Three-eighths-blood clothing. 

 Quarter-blood clothing, or 

 Short quarter blood. 



Practically all the wool of these last two grades is of combing length. 



Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Wash- 

 ington wools are called "territory wools " in distinction from the 

 clips from -Texas, California, Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona. 

 Quotations are often given for the wools from different states. 

 While these wools undoubtedly differ somewhat, it is almost impos- 

 sible to tell in general descriptive terms what the differences are, 

 and to be able further to subdivide the classifications given above 

 requires an expert knowledge of the whole wool trade. 



United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 206 gives 

 the following description of how the quality of foreign wools is 

 often designated by the counts or number of hanks to the pound. 



" The coarser wools are represented by the lower counts, as 

 18 ? s, 24's, 36's, etc., and the finer ones as 64's, 70's, 80's, etc. 

 These numbers or counts represent the hanks per pound of top 

 into which the wool is supposedly capable of being spun, each hank 

 representing 560 yards. Thus, wool of 50's quality should spin 

 50 X 560 yards per pound to top, if spun to the limit. This classifi- 

 cation is based on the worsted system of manufacture. 



" Foreign Wool Classes and Corresponding Counts for American Grade 



American grades. Foreign classes- Counts often 



top-maker's spun to in 



quality. America. 



Fine 60's-70's 50's-60's 



Half-blood 56's-60's 40's 



Three-eighths-blood 50's-56's 36's 



Quarter-blood 46's-50's 32's 



Low quarter-blood 40's-46's 20's 



Low, coarse, common, or braid 36's-40's 16's 



" As a matter of fact the top-maker's quality does not actually 

 represent the counts to which the wool can be spun. The lower 



