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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 "West and Southwestern Parts of the United States.: 



Combing Wools 

 Fine staple ^ 



Fine medium staple \ Usual] y e grade. 

 Half-blood staple. 

 Three-eighths-blood staple. 

 Quarter-blood staple ) 

 Low quarter-blood staple f Often one - rade ' 

 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. 



