49—The Relationship of Fibre form and Staple Crimp in Merino Wool

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It has been believed generally that staple crimp is formed by the congruence of a majority of the fibre crimped forms. It has been disclosed herein that staple crimp may be a minority effect and the fibres producing successive elements of the staple crimp may not be the same throughout. It has been shown that the shorter fibres may be straighter, and the longer made more convolute, than the average, because of adhesion of the majority of the fibres in the tip at an early stage in the season. It is not unlikely that adhesion may occur elsewhere in the staple, thus preserving a ‘phalanx’ effect, in that fibre elements grown at the same period may remain adjacent in the staple despite differential rates of growth in length.

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