§ 738.65 - Wool grades; adoption; terms defined.

(a) The official wool grades of the United States within their scope are hereby adopted as the official wool standards for the purposes of the act and the regulations in this part.

(b) Factors other than those included in the official grades and for which no standards of the United States are in effect shall be stated in accordance with any standards approved for the purpose by the Service.

(c) Wool which is reduced in value because of the presence of extraneous matter, or irregularity, or other defect not affecting its grade, such as wrapped with sisal or binder twine, excessively wrapped, dead, cotted, burry, seedy, black, gray, or colored, damaged, carbonizing, kempy, or false packed, shall be so designated.

(d) For the purpose of this section the following terms used in connection with or to describe wool, shall be construed respectively to mean:

(1) Excessively wrapped. Wool tied with more wrappings of twine than is necessary to bundle properly folded and rolled fleeces.

(2) Dead wool. Wool from dead sheep.

(3) Cotted wool. Wool that has felted or matted on the sheep's back.

(4) Burry wool. Wool containing burrs removable by hand or mechanical means.

(5) Seedy wool. Wool containing seeds, chaff, or other vegetable matter.

(6) Black, gray, or colored wool. Entire fleeces or portions of fleeces of black, gray, or colored wool.

(7) Damaged wool. Wool damaged by fire, water, moisture, or moths.

(8) Carbonizing wool. Wool from which the burrs or other substances can be removed only by carbonizing.

(9) Kempy wool. Wool containing kemps, opaque, white fibers, found generally in the fleeces of old or sick sheep.

(10) False packed. A fleece so packed as fraudulently to conceal substances entirely foreign to wool.

(11) Lamb's wool. The first fleeces shorn from young sheep.

(12) Buck's. The heavy, oily fleeces shorn from male sheep.

(13) Bright. Bright, white lustrous wool.

(14) Semibright. Lustrous wool dulled in color by the foreign matter it contains.