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Let us now, from the above data, calculate the value of this wool in the yolk, 

 throughout the whole fleece; assuming as a standard that of 1804 ; which, however, 

 for the reasons above-mentioned, must give to the grower a result less favourable 

 than the just average. 



The- proportions of the entire fleeces in this wool, had the K. or Cahidas, which 

 had fallen out, been added, would have been as follows : 



108 o 52 15 6 



Now the following is the account of the average loss in scouring, picking, and 

 drying the Refina, Fina, Tercera, and Cahidas of the best Spanish piles, the price 

 of each as imported, and the consequent value of the respective parts, when so 



purified. 



Refina loses in scouring and picking about ^\\h. per score. 



Fina - • - about 4 . . 



Tercera _ - - about 4^ 



Cahidas - _ _ about 5^ 



52 15 6 20 18 2-^- 



Now as the average loss of weight in the examples quoted, did not actually 

 amount to one half, and as the wool in question was, for the reasons abovemen- 

 tioned, unusually foul, we might justly have expected the most valuable part of 



