26 BULLETIN 313, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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. 
Tt 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 partially 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 wool sale at Sydney in April, 191}. 
Lot. Mark. Description. Bales. | Price. 
GREASY. 
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2 | Lumley Park/C (from Goulburn)........----..----- X86 Wbsi st 33g ies 9 102 
3:| Tabratong! Grom iUNeverbine)passsess-b- see eo ee POS acne b oe. PR eS 16 23 
4| LJH/NZD Grom Braid wood)-2222-52--s--22-2----- MW 5-66 Sete eel A ee 6 94 
5 | ~/Jh/New England (from Inverell)........--.----- NS: Bese cee ee ee 5 113 
6: eyrie!\GrontDandaloo)s=22-2 ee os- eee ea eee Pes ere ee eae eee 14 3 
7 | E/Lora Downs (from Coonamble)..-.-..-.-.-..--.-- TAUASH SE Sats a aoe 1051235 ees 
8°) Willara Grom Wanaaring) = ss222.. -..2 seee- asa BE 2e a tone ics aes wee 8 9 
No lot 9. 
10) | DD /ilisgar: (from! Parkes) tec se se cea ee ee Tian WE. eee oe see een tne al iletere— 
Uke eee GO soa soe 2 eae aera esis eae ie ee ae ee Ji Wes bert cers2 2 so cas 6 bee Ouch cece 
7} ee GO fog 358 <2 Be aah a es oe ee eee ee eee 5 acs pee ae ee ee 10 94 
13) | De. (irom: Monaro). 533 ae. ae ee aaa eee Wand Biss... a52ep. 5 sete 6 gt 
14 | +/a/Kentucky (from Queanbeyan)....--.-..------- BranG? Wicos nse se eee ee 7 10% 
15 | JP/Marysvale (from Goulburn)..........-...-..--- Ms = coo a5sie- = Sates 14 113 
