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Treatise on the Breeding and Managemnt of Live Stock
Treatise on the Breeding and Managemnt of Live Stock Author:Richard Parkinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In the west riding the fleeces are various, some longer, harder, and more elastic than the rest: about Pennestone the wool is short and fine. Westmoreland.—Th... more »e wool is here coarse and hairy. Cumberland.—The mountain sheep produce much the some kind of wool as the above. Northumberland.—The short wool produced in this county, of the Cheviot breed, is short and valuable, its pile remarkably clear and soft. Wales.—The Welsh fleece is in short staples, with a fine pile, but more infested with kemps and coarse hairs than any other kind of wool. Section xxin. Some Information concerning the Properties of Wool, In the present state of the woollen manufacture, the length of the staple is an object of very considerable importance; and the chief qualities in carding wool, shortness of pile and disposition in the hair to assume a crumpled or spring-like form. If the staple be too long, an extraordinary expense occurs in reducing it; and it is the opinion of manufacterers that wool for the finest fabrics cannot be too short, if it only possess that degree of crumpledness which will enable it to form a roveling. The peculiar shriveling quality in wool cannot prevail in too high a degree, if it be destined for the manufacture of any kind of goods which require a close and smooth surface; for the greater number of minute curves which it contains in a given length of the pile, so much the more it may be broken without injury, and every portion retain a sufficient degree of curvature to link itself with its neighbours?, forming an inconceivably thin and transparent texture. -Most of the wool produced in these kingdoms is too long for the perfect operation of the card, and the first process through which it passes after it has left the hands of the stapler is to shorten it. ...« less