446 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Nov., 1899. 
this case the wave assumes a regular half-cireular form, which is most desirable 
for clothing wool, yet still adapted for the comb. 8. The wave is higher than 
long, and it appears now remarkably clear and distinct. Such wools are also 
valuable to the cloth-maker, yet not so desirable for plain goods. 4. ‘The waves 
overlap each other; they are not unlike the loops in a piece of cotton obtained 
by unravelling a sock, or similar articles produced by knitting. Wool fibres so 
constructed are highly objectionable, because they cannot be properly disen- 
tangled by the carding machine, unless to the detriment of the latter. These 
loops are caught in the fine carding hooks instead of passing through, and by 80 
doing break or strain them. ‘These loopy fibres have also a tendency to grow 
spirally, through which their objectionable nature is still more increased. It 1s 
evident that all wools of half-cireular waving are best adapted for any kind of 
manufacture. This half-cireular formation facilitates a mutual interlinking and 
a close growth of all the fibres, and it is mostly combined with other desirable 
qualities. A regular clear wave is a great desideratum in good wool. In the 
shorter bond fide clothing wools, a rather high, clear, wave is more desirable than 
a slight wave. In combing wools, the less pronounced, more sleek waving 1% 
preferable. At the same time some of the most highly priced combings haye 
also a very clear wave, 
