22 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Mv. Schreiner'8 opinion of what a purebred Angora is, ^^iven on 

 page 58 of his book, is as follows: 



I think it is certain that the original purebred white mohair goat was a small, very 

 refined, delicate animal, of great beauty, clipping at twelve-months' growth of fleece 

 about from 2 to 4 pounds (according to age and sex — kids considerably less) of 

 dazzling white, fine, soft, silky, very lustrous mohair, curling in ringlets from 10 to 18 

 inches long, with merely the niinimum of oil in its fleece requisite to the growth of 

 hair of the highest excellence, so small in amount as to be inappreciable to the 

 unskilled observer. It was jierfectly clothed in every part; it had short, silky, curly 

 hair about the face and down the lower parts of the legs to the hoofs; a soft, silky, 

 curly "kuif" (tuft on the forehead), and small, thin, light-colored horns. The ewe 

 was of course smaller and finer than the ram, and had only one kid at a birth (of 

 this there is abundant evidence). 



Although Mr. Schreiner thinks the Davis importation to this countr}' 

 was among the best bred goats that ever left Turkey, it will be noticed 

 from the pictures of two of them shown herein (see PI. I, p. 16), 

 which were said by Colonel Peters to be excellent, that the mohair 

 does not extend ' ' down the lower parts of the legs to the hoofs. " It 

 is doubtful if any such Angoras may be found existing at this time, 

 however probable they might have been in their original purity. 



The following is quoted from Dr. John Bachman,^ of Charleston, 

 S. C, who was appointed by the Southern Central Agricultural 

 Association of Georgia to report on the Angoras belonging to Colonel 

 Peters, of Atlanta: 



The Angora goat, more especially the varieties it has produced, is described by 

 Hasselquist (1722-1752), Buffon (1707-1788), Pennant (1726-1798), and others as in 

 general of a beautiful milk-white color, with short legs, and black, spreading, spirally 

 twisted horns. The hair on the whole body is disposed in long pendent spiral ringlets; 

 its ears are pendulous, and the horns of the female, instead of divaricating as in the 

 male, turn backward, and are much shorter in proportion. 



Mr. Diehl" (1863), adopting to some extent the same language as 

 Dr. Bachman used, describes the Angora as follows: 



The Angora goat, and more especially the varieties it hac produced, are probably 

 the most valuable of all the goat family, and have been ablj* described by Naturalists 

 Buffon, Pennant, Hasselquist, and travelers as good-sized animals, generally of a 

 beautiful milk-white color, with short legs and wide-spreading, spirally-twisted 

 horns. The wool is described as a very beautiful curled or wavy hair of silvery 

 whiteness, with a fine downy wool at its base, and this hair is disposed in long, 

 pendent, spiral ringlets on the whole body. The horns of the female, instead of 

 spreading, as m the male, turn backward, and are much shorter in proportion. 

 Those of the male are long, spirally twisted, but the size and direction are very 

 different from the common goat, being generally extended from 15 to 30 inches in 

 height on each side of the head, while those of the female are near the ears. The 

 hair, or wool, often sweeps to the ground, and is usually from 5 to 12 inches long, 

 especially in the older bucks, but then not so fine. 



This brief description, he said, applied to all the Angoras which he 

 saw in western Asia, Europe, and in this country, which amounted to 



^ "Report on Asiatic Goats," United States Agricultural Report, 1857, p. 58. 

 ^ " Tlu' (Toat," TTnited States Agricultural Report, ]8fiR, p. 222. 



