 Clarke was one of the highest value; the length of hair averaged about 17 inches; the weight supposed tobe 201bs. Such a fleece, when used in manufacture to its utmost extent, as an admixture with cotton to fabricate the finest alpaca fabrics, would suffice...  British Farmer's Magazine - Page 241863Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 604 pages
...wag one of the highest value; the length of hair averaged about 17 inches ; the weight supposed to be 201bs. Such a fleece, when used in manufacture to...specimens of these said fabrics I have now before me aa I write, and from reliable sources. Seeing, then, that this wool is so valuable in manufacture,... | |
 | John Lord Hayes - 1866 - 80 pages
...a single hogget fleece weighing twenty pounds, with a length of staple of about seventeen inches, " when used in manufacture to its utmost extent, as...finest alpaca fabrics, would suffice to make upwards of twelve pieces, each forty-two yards in length, and very possibly might be extended to sixteen pieces,... | |
 | Samuel Batchelder - 1866 - 1096 pages
...single hogget fleece weighing twenty pound*, witlf • length of staple of about seventeen inches, " when used in manufacture to its utmost extent, as...cotton to fabricate the finest alpaca fabrics, would MI dice to mnkc upwards of twelve pieces, each forty-two yards in length, and very possibly micht be... | |
 | United States commission to the Paris expos, 1867 - 1870 - 816 pages
...inches, such as has been sometimes exhibited in England, when used in manufacture to its utmost extent, with cotton, to fabricate the finest alpaca fabrics would suffice to make 16 pieces, or 672 yards, enough for 56 dresses. The same amount of wool made into cloth would not make... | |
 | United States. Commission to the Paris Exposition, 1867 - 1870 - 824 pages
...inches, such as has been sometimes exhibited in England, when used in manufacture to its utmost extent, with cotton, to fabricate the finest alpaca fabrics would suffice to make 16 pieces, or 672 yards, enough for 56 dresses. The same amount of wool made into cloth would not make... | |
 | John Lord Hayes - 1870 - 924 pages
...inches, such as has been sometimes exhibited in England, when used in manufacture to its utmost extent, with cotton, to fabricate the finest alpaca fabrics would suffice to make 16 pieces, or 072 yards, enough for 56 dresses. The same amount of wool made into cloth would not make... | |
 | ROGERSON AND TUXFORD - 1863 - 606 pages
...was one of the highest value; the length of hair averaged about 17 inches; the weight supposed to be 201bs. Such a fleece, when used in manufacture to...and very possibly might be extended to 16 pieces or G72 yards. Nothing, therefore, can more strikingly denote or show its great value than this fact; and... | |
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