MANAGEMENT AND FEEDING OF SHEEP 



also is possessed of much merit, is shown in Fig. 5. The 

 best wool — that is, the finest and most evenly grown — is 

 always found on the shoulders, i, 

 I. Not infrequently this high 

 quality wool shades into 2, 2, 5 

 and 6. In the wool trade these 

 are known as picklock and prime. 

 When the wool at 4, shorter than 

 I, I, is free from colored hairs, it 

 is super-excellent. The wool at 

 3, 3 is shorter and less closely 

 grown than I, I. The quality of 

 6 is not much below that of 2, 2, 

 into which it shades, and also 

 which it resembles. For manj' 

 uses the wool at i, i, 2, 2, 5 and 

 6 are taken together. Backward 

 from 6, the wool becomes increas- 

 ingly coarse, the best being found at 7, 7. At 8, 9 and 9 

 the coarsest wool is found, that at 8 being the coarsest. 

 The wool grows in large locks of coarse hair and can only 

 be used for coarse yarns. 



FIG. 5— THE SHORN FLEECE 

 AS FREQUENTLY CLASSIFIED 



