Wool
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Encyclopedia article on wool from the American Cyclopedia (1883). It covers the structure and properties of wool fibre (scaly serrations, felting, yolk, staple, fineness by breed), wool from sheep, alpaca, Angora and Cashmere goats, and the history of sheep rearing and the wool trade from antiquity through Spain, France, Saxony and England. The later pages give statistical tables of British wool imports, wool production in Australia, the Cape and River Plate, and US sheep numbers, wool production and imports in the 1860s and 1870s.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1883
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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