20 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



beginning of the breeding of thoroughbred Angoras in California. 

 Prior to this but two Angora bucks had been taken into the State — 

 the two which were sent by Peters to Landrum. 



The Diehl and Brown importation was first taken to Ohio; and 

 afterwards the entire lot, it is believed, was taken to California, where 

 the goats were widely disseminated through the State, some of them 

 bringing as much as $200 a head. 



In 1875 William Hall bought of Butterfield & Son their entire flock 

 of 150 goats for about $17,000. The same year John S. Harris joined 

 Hall as a partner, and the following year went to Turkey and purchased 

 ten does and two bucks. These also went to California. It is said 

 that the blood of this importation was felt beneficially in every good 

 flock in the State. 



In 1893 C. P. Bailey imported from South Africa two bucks. Pasha 

 (see PI. VII) was one of these, and his get has been sent to nearly 

 every State in the Union. In 1899 Mr. Bailey imported another buck 

 from Cape Town. This animal is the last importation into the United 

 States. 



The statement has already been made that the first goats taken to 

 California were purchased of Colonel Peters by Mr. Landrum. In 

 1872 Mr. Landrum purchased all the goats under 8 years of age which 

 Colonel Peters then owned and took them to California. 



Mr. Julius Weyand, secretary of the Angora Goat Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation of California, in a report to that organization in 1891, gives a 

 brief review of the industry in that State. He says that in 1885 there 

 were about 100,000 Angora goats in California, but between that date 

 and 1889, owing to the admission into the LTnited States of mohair as 

 carpet wool, and thus paying but 2^ cents dut}^ per pound, the number 

 decreased to 55,000. Mr. C. P. Bailey is authority for the statement 

 that practically all the goats in California are of the Angora breed. 



Large flocks of Angoras have been sent from California and Texas 

 into Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, where the}^ have been divided 

 into smaller flocks and become the propert}^ of many difierent farmers. 

 Texas has also sent many over into New Mexico. 



Although the foregoing facts show that the Angora goats have been 

 slow in gaining a standing among the industries of the country, it can 

 hardly be doubted that there are now in motion such energies as will 

 place the industry upon a rational basis. It is believed that the Angora 

 industry is already emerging from the chaos which has enveloped it 

 for fifty years past, and that it will soon be as firmly established as 

 any other stock interest in the United States. A recent issue of Wool 

 Markets and Sheep says: 



After fareful review of the .situation, past and iireneiit, the Angora goat in<lnstry of 

 this country we clearly conceive is destined to be one of very great importance in our 

 agricultural economy. Our broad acres and diversified geological and climatic; cmi- 

 ditions give ample scope and al)undaut suital)le conditions for the carrying on of the 

 business to a large extent and profitable issue. 



