32 BULLETIN 206, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
ModocJ:. — 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 ivool. — Formerly a grade above XXX. Picklock was the product of Silesian 
Merino blood. There is no American market grade of that name at present; & little 
of this quality of wool is produced in West Virginia. 
Pulled icoo 7.— 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 ivool. — 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 vjooIs.- — Those from which the suint 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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