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100               NEW SOUTH WALES WOOL

POINTS OF QUALITY     Every defect in the fleece shows itself in some particular points & in proportion to its defect there, will the defect run through the whole fleece.Visible to the Stockholder,  but the trade who are handling it every hour would detect it in the shoulder, though they saw neither neck nor brush [?]

       SOUNDNESS
                      Along the ridge of the back is a sort of division between the wool of each side; where the staple in general a little shorter than the rest of the fleece.
       TENDERNESS    That is  deficiency in soundings, invariably first shows itself there, Take out a staple, & give it a strong steady pull if it is sound depend upon it that the whole fleece is sound.
        FREENESS      When the quality is possessed in perfection, the fibres are as clear and distinct as those of a well brushed lock of hair, while the staples are as completely isolated as if each was a seperate [separate] growth, like a tree of the forest. The wool upon being shed will fall apart under the hands as clear & broken as the leaves of a book, without one fibre passing from one leaf to the other.  Any deficiency will like tenderness first show itself in the ridge of the back. Where the wool is weakened the fibres in the seperate [separate] staples will be found entwining with each other; & as the defect increases, passing from one staple to another.
A want of Knowledge as to this quality has caused infinite mischief - from people having mistaken the absence of freeness for fulness. In proportion to the deficiency in freeness, the staples are mixed together until the whole fleece is one entangled mass which upon being handled feels exceedingly bulky, but, only for the same reason that a quantity of twine when ravelled fills infinitely more space than when in unbroken hanks.

      FULNESS      Upon shedding the wool of a fleece possessing this quality in perfection a line of skin will appear narrow & distinct like a pencil line; but, if deficient a space almost bare will appear round every staple.
     LENGTH        This must be most carefully regulated by the nature of the pasture & Climate, for any, the least excess, will cause a proportionate deficiency in [indecipherable] by which the wool will be depreciated for Clothing, & rendered utterly useless for Combing.
 

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