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of one owned b}^ Col. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina; one sold by 

 Dr. Davis to Mr. Davenport, of Virginia, and one to Mr. Osborne, of 

 New York. Colonel Peters later imported others from Asia Minor, 

 which did not prove to be very satisfactory, as they were gummy. 

 The Savannah Republican in April, 1860, said that Colonel Peters was 

 selling his goats at very high prices, having received $1,500 for one 

 buck; that the president of an Illinois fair was so pleased with one of 

 the bucks on exhibiton there that he offered Colonel Peters "the 

 weight of the l)uck in silver for it."" Colonel Peters is looked upon 

 as the real founder of the Angora goat industry in the country. 

 Although Dr. Davis had crossed the Angoras with common goats to 

 some extent, it was Colonel Peters who demonstrated the possibility 

 of erecting an excellent fleece-bearing flock l)y judicious crossing with 

 common goats. Other importers Avere Hon. W. H. Stiles (1860), 8 

 head; Diehl & Brown (1869). of Ohio, of 135 head; Price Maurice,^ of 

 Australia (isTO, 1871. 1872, 1873), who imported 16 bucks and 168 

 does for his sons, who were settled at Fort Clark, Tex. ; John S. Har- 

 ris (1876), then of California, now of Oakley, Idaho; C. W. Chenery 

 (1867), of Massachusetts. A. Euty chides (1869?), a native of the prov- 

 ince of Angora, brought over a flock numbering 175 and made a vig- 

 orous effort to l)ring them more largely to the notice of the American 

 public. After several years of doubtful success he returned to the 

 Old World to engage in farming in Thessaly. 



John S. Harris sa3\s that, with the exception of Hon. Israel S. Diehl, 

 he is the only man who ever went into the province of Angora for the 

 mohair goat; other goats that were imported came through agents. 



These are about all of the earlier importations from Asia Minor. Of 

 recent years some excellent individuals have been brought from Cape 

 Colony. Turkey has since 1881 prohibited the exportation of Angoras, 

 and Cape Colony, observing with jealous eye the rapid progress now 

 being made in the United States, has placed an export duty upon 

 Angoras of £100 ($186.65). W. Hammond Tooke, writing of the 

 mohair industry of Cape Colony in the Agricultural Journal of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, says they ha^'e nothing to fear from Turkey or 

 iVustralia, but that the United States gives them more concern, as the 

 breeding of Angoras for mohair is no longer considered an experiment 

 in the United States. 



Previous to the outbreak of the civil war there were many fair- 

 sized flocks in the South and Southwest. There were smaller flocks 

 in many of the Northern and Western States, Mr. Diehl, in 1863, 

 mentions flocks containing from 300 to 1,200 and more in Atlanta, Ga. ; 

 Gallatin and Nashville, Tenn. ; Russellville, Frankfort, Paris, and 



^ This statement is made upon the authority of Gustav A. Hoerle; but C. P. Bailey 

 says he has never heen al)le to verify the presence of this importation in Texas, and 

 I am informed that C'ol. W. L. Black, of Texas, also fails to locate them. — G. F. T, 



