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BULLETIN 313, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICTJLTTJBE. 



2. AA combing. Similar to AAA combing, but heavier in tips, and would 

 shrink more on that account. 



3. AA. Similar to AA combing, but shorter. 



4. A. Short-stapled and heavy in yolk. 



5. AA fleece. Rougher and coarser than AA combing. 



6. A fleece. Short, discolored. 



7. Broken fleeces. Best parts of neck and britch wool from skirtings. 



8. First pieces. Best and cleanest of skirtings that remain after separation 

 of that going into broken fleeces. 



9. Pieces. Sometimes called second pieces ; dirtier and inferior to first pieces. 



10. Locks. Second cuts and sweaty locks from below the wool table. 



11. Bellies. 



The wool bales are branded with the classer's designation of their 

 contents and so entered in the auction-sale catalogue. It will be no- 

 ticed in the latter case that the best wool was called AAA combing, 

 and AA combing was not so good. In the New South Wales clip 

 referred to the A grade is higher than AA. This causes no confu- 

 sion, because the buyer depends for his estimate upon his examina- 

 tion of sample bales, and his chief concern in regard to the classing 

 is to know that the skirting was properly done, and that there is 

 uniformity throughout each bale and throughout the various bales in 

 the lot as offered in the sale. 



It is the aim to avoid, as far as possible, the selling of too many lots 

 of less than 10 bales. As a rule a 50-bale lot will bring more per 

 pound than a 5 or 10 bale lot of similar wool. It takes the buyer 

 as long to value a small lot as a large one, and, if purchased, the 

 smaller lot only partiall} 7 fills an order for several hundred bales. 



A lot of three bales or less is sold as a " star " lot, either at a dif- 

 ferent time or in a different place from the selling of the large lots. 

 Selling houses sometimes " interlot " what would otherwise be star 

 lots. Small lots of wools of the same kind and considered to have 

 the same money value are combined to form a larger lot, and settle- 

 ment with each consignor interested in the joint offering is made at 

 the price realized for the interlotted offering. 



Report of a vjooI sale at Sydney in April, 191%. 



Description. 



Bales. Price 



GREASY. 



H/Nandawar (from Boggabri) 



Lumley Park/C (from Goulburn)... 



Tabratong (from Nevertire) 



UH/NZ L (from Braidwood) 



'"VJh/New England (from Inverell). 



T Trie (from Dandaloo) 



E/Lora Downs (from Coonamble) . . 



Willara (from Wanaaring) 



No lot 9. 



DD/Lisgar (from Parkes) 



do 



do 



DP (from Monaro) 



+/a/Kentucky (from Queanbeyan) 

 JP/Marysvale (from Goulburn) 



Lbs 



X-BLbs.. 



Pes 



MW 



F 



Pes 



AAE 



F 



1 E and H 



1 W 



1 Pes 



EandH.. 

 Eand W_. 

 M 



12 



6§ 



9 



lOf 



16 



21 



6 



91 



5 



HI 



14 



3 



10 





8 



9 



25 





9 





10 



9h 



t> 



9i 



7 



10i 



14 



HI 



