The Bolton counts is still used in some mills in that town and also in Bury and some few other districts. It is based on the number of beers in 24-1/4 inches--a beer comprising 20 dents. A Stockport 40’s reed would have 485 dents on 24-1/4 inches, or 24-1/4 beers Bolton. A Bolton 24-1/4 reed is then equal to a Stockport 40’s. To find the number of splits per inch in a reed having Bolton counts given, multiply those counts by ·8249, or _vice versâ_. This rule shows the number of dents and decimal parts; 8·245 is more often taken, but it gives the number with less exactitude. The fraction is only taken to two places of decimals, showing thus the 100th parts of dents--_e.g._, a 30^0 Bolton has 24-74/100 splits per inch (8·249 × 30 = 24·747). To convert Stockport into Bolton counts multiply by ·60625. To convert Bolton into Stockport multiply by 1·6495. This rule gives the number of ends per inch in Bolton counts, supposing the cloth to be wrought two ends in a dent. The Scotch systems are to take the number of dents or splits in the old Scotch ell, 37 inches, or by the number of porters on the same length. The Scotch porter is equal to the Lancashire beer--20 splits. In the first system, the splits per ell are expressed in hundreds--thus, 17^{00} indicates 1700 splits on 37 inches, almost equal to a 92 reed, Stockport; or a 46 on the Scotch inch scale, which is the number of splits in one inch, and corresponding to the old Radcliffe and Pilkington method in Lancashire. By the porter system, a 40-porter reed would give 40 × 20 dents = 800 on 37 inches, equal to a 43 reed, Stockport, In Scotland (as in Lancashire) the old complicated systems show a tendency to give way in favour of the simpler systems of counting the dents or ends in one inch. In the reed table given below, the first row of figures shows the proportion which these reeds bear to one another, and the lower rows indicate the fineness of the different systems for 33 and 40 splits per inch respectively--the calculation results being given, which same might not frequently appear in practice-- The Inch Stockport Bolton Scotch. Scotch Scale. Dents Beers 100 ends Porter. Dents per on on on Porters on Inch. 2 Inches. 24-1/4 Inches. 37 Inches. 37 Inches. 1 2 1·2125 0·37 1·85 33 66 40· 12·20 61 40 80 48·5 14·80 74 HEALDS. In Stockport counts four healds are considered as a set, and having one thread through each eye are dubbed of similar counts to the reed--_e.g._, a 60’s set of healds has 15 stitches per inch in each set, equalling 60 ends per inch in the reed, which is a 60’s reed, Stockport. In spaced healds some are knitted finer than others and consequently numbered differently. In this point draft:--