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stantly at work sorting mohair. The commission 

 men have their store rooms around this central room; 

 when the sorters finish with Mr. A's lot they com- 

 mence to sort for Mr. B. Thus the same men sort 

 all the mohair, and this insures a uniformity of grade. 

 In America the plan of handling is somewhat 

 different. It will be easier to tell what should be 

 done than what is done. Until each grower becomes 

 something of an expert sorter, or until we have cen- 

 tral depots, where the mohair can be properly graded, 

 the grower should roll the fleeces separately; they 

 should not be tied, and put them in a bag or bale. 

 He should pick out the tag locks, mohair discolored 

 or clotted with urine or faeces, the colored fleeces, 

 burry mohair or very kempy fleeces, and after prepa- 

 ration, put them in a separate parcel. Any kind of a 

 bur or seed which sticks in the mohair must be 

 picked out by hand. If the manufacturer has to do 

 this, he puts a price on the mohair which will leave 

 him plenty of margin. That is, he pays the grower 

 about one-half as much as the mohair would be worth 

 if it were free from this foreign material. If the 

 mohair is very burry, it has to be treated chemically, 

 and this spoils the luster. Sometimes the grower 

 can make good wages by having the burs picked out 

 before the animals are shorn. One man can pick the 

 burs out of from fifteen to twenty-five animals a day, 

 if there are not too many burs in the mohair. If the 



