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English: Qualities of Wool in a Lincoln Fleece. The numbers indicate the quality of wool taken from the respective sections of the fleece. Thus the finest quality—44's—is found on the shoulders, while the coarsest “britch” is found on the hind-quarters of the sheep.
Date published 1911
Source “Wool, Worsted and Woollen Manufactures,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 28, 1911, fig. 7, p. 809.
Author Aldred Farrer Barker
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