32 BULLETIN 206, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Modock.- — Wool from range sheep that have been fed and sheared in the farm States. 

 The wool has qualities of both regions. 



Noil.— A by-product of worsted manufacture consisting of short and tangled fibers. 

 It is used in the manufacture of woolens. 



Off sorts. — The by-products of sorting. In fine staple or any other grade there are 

 certain quantities of short, coarse, stained, and colored wools. These are the off sorts. 



Picklock wool. — Formerly a grade above XXX. Picklock was the product of Silesian 

 Merino blood. There is no American market grade of that name at present; a little 

 of this quality of wool is produced in West Virginia. 



Pulled wool.- — Wool taken from the skin of a slaughtered sheep's pelt by slipping, 

 sweating, or the use of depilatory. 



Quality. — The diameter of the wool. It largely determines the spinning quality. 



Run-out fleece. — One that is not uniform but much coarser on the "britch" than 

 elsewhere. It may be kempy. 



Shafty wool.' — Wool of good length and spinning qualities. 



Shearlings. — Short wool pulled from skins of sheep shorn before slaughtering. Also 

 English term for yearling sheep. 



Shivy wool.- — A somewhat broad term. It refers to the presence of vegetable matter 

 in the wool. 



Shoddy. — Wool that has been previously used for manufacturing purposes, torn 

 apart and made ready to use again. 



Skirting .— Skirting fleeces consists in removing the pieces and the low-quality wool 

 of the britch from the edge of the fleece. 



Spring wool. — Six to eight months' growth; shorn in the spring where sheep are 

 shorn twice a year. 



Stained wool.- — That which is discolored by urine, dung, etc. 



Staple.- — (a) A lock or bunch of wool as it exists in the fleece. (6) Western combing 

 wool. 



Stubble shearing. — Shearing some distance from the skin, leaving a "stubble." 



Suint.— Excretions from sweat glands deposited in the wool. 



Sweating sheds. — Sheds in which sheep are "sweated" before shearing. The pur- 

 pose is to raise the yolk and make shearing easier. 



Tags. — Large dungy locks. 



Territory wools.- — Territory wools are in general those that come from the territory 

 west of the Missouri River. 



Tippy wool. — Wool in which the tip or weather end of the fiber is more or less 

 incrusted. 



Top. — A continuous untwisted strand of the longer wool fibers straightened by 

 combing. After drawing and spinning it becomes worsted yarn. 



Top-maker's qualities or counts.- — Top-maker's qualities or counts are the numbers 

 used in designating the quality of certain foreign wools. They range from 12 's upward. 

 The numbers are supposed to indicate the number of hanks of yarn a pound of top 

 will spin to. Each hank represents 560 yards. . 



Tub washed. — Wool that has been washed after having been sheared. Very rare 

 in America; was formerly practiced in Kentucky. 



Virgin wool. — Wool that has not previously been used in manufacturing. 

 Warp. — The threads that run lengthwise in cloth. 



Washed wools. — Those from which the stunt has been removed by washing the sheep 

 before shearing. 



Wether. — In English wools it refers to wool other than the first clip from the sheep. 

 In sheep, a castrated male. 



Yolk. — The fatty grease deposited upon the wool fibers from the oil glands. 



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