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Types and Market Classes of Live Stock 



decreed that XX and X as grade names shall be used only in referring 

 to washed clothing wools. XX is a somewhat finer wool than X. 

 Fine Unwashed corresponds to XX and X, but shrinks more in scour- 

 ing. The same sheep in the West grows a fleece that grades as Fine 

 Clothing or Fine Medium Clothing. Fine Clothing corresponds to 

 XX, and Fine Medium Clothing corresponds to X, except that the 

 territory wool shrinks more than the domestic. 



Fig. 111. — Grades of combing wool, 

 quarter-blood combing at right. 



Three-eighths-blood combing at left and 



^ ^ Similar comparisons might be made for the half-blood grade, the 

 three-eighths-blood grade, etc. If we substitute the general term 

 "Fine" for all the grades thus far discussed, we may say that each 

 class of wool has the following grades: 



1. Fine 



2. Half-blood 



3. Three-eighths-blood 



4. Quarter-blood 



5. Low quarter-blood 



6. Low, coarse, common, or braid. 



