stitchel

— If the Cornish farmer, and others who, like himself, are possessed of a breed of sheep yielding very coarse wool, or such as is mixed with stitchel hair ( kemps ) instead of sitting down contented with these as the best that his situation would admit of, had, with a discerning attention, studied to better his breed, he might have reaped from thence, long ere now, some very essential benefits.