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Title: The angora and mohair industry in the Northwest; also a full report and proceedings of the Northwest Angora Goat Association held in Portland, Oregon, January 4-7, 1911
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Northwest Angora Goat Association McDonald, Alva L
Subjects: Angora goat Mohair Goat industry
Publisher: (Portland, s.n
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y substance, however little or much theremay have been, shows up clearly in tiny whitestreaks on the face of the dyed goods. In themills there are two distinct processes for thepurpose of extracting kemp; expert mohairsorters who work by hand, and the combingprocess which takes out as much as possible ofwhat is left. Some kemp, however, flies off thebobbin in the spinning, though this proportion issmall. In sorting mohair, every man watchesfor the kempy portions which generally occur atthe base of the staple, and can best be seen onthe wrong side of the fleece. All this is throwninto a basket by itself (it is impossible to pre-vent some good mohair from going with it)and IS considered waste, though it sometimesgoes for the manufacture of carpets and cheaprugs. combs. The gill boxes serve to straighten out After the mohair is scoured and dried, it is the fibers in parallel position while the combingput through what they call gill boxes and the does much the same work, together with the
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Long Mohair. (Courtesy Oregon Agriculturist 20 THE ANGORA GOAT INDUSTRY IN THE NORTHWEST fascinating process of extracting the noil (theshort and waste). The gears on the combs areset with respect to the amount or length of noilto be taken out. Since, fortunately, there aremore short, kempy fibers than long ones, manyof these fibers are carried along with the noiland are disposed pf as waste. So it is plainlyseen that the more kemp we find, the more ex-pense and trouble it causes. \Ve feel that thegreatest responsibility in this matter rests withthe breeders, and the growers of mohair. Theless kemp, the more you get for your mohair. You have all learned that short mohair isnot in active demand today in the manufacturingmarket. There have been seasons, however,when short hair was used and was bringing goodprices; the grower must be reconciled to thecaprices in fashions; short mohair brings noteven the price proportionate to the price of longmohair, as the market dictates today. It is t

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