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high as they can reach when standing on their hind legs. In this way they can 

 reach 5 or 6 feet high, and they bend down everything they can reach with their 

 fore legs. The brushier the range the better, and the more different kinds of brush 

 and weeds on their range the better they will thrive.— i?^ T. Fuchs, Tiger Mills, Tex. 



They more than pay for the eiipense of keeping them by clearing my land. They 

 clear off the willows, haws, buck brush, and squawberries and leave a good blue- 

 grass pasture where there was a nuisance in the first place. — /. D. Lewis, Colo. 



He will eat buck brush, black oak, hickory, and all other kinds of brush, jimson 

 weed, ironweed, smartweed, and every other weed that grows, leaving the grass 

 for other animals that will feed after the goats. — B. C. Johnston, Lawrence, Kans. 



There is good grass here (Wyoming), but my goats won't eat buffalo grass. They 

 will browse on sagebrush, grease wood, scrub cedar, scrub pine, laurel, and willows; 

 but they refuse to eat the best grass that grows. — W. W. Eheler. 



In Arizona the principal and favorite browsing is live-oak brush. — ./. F. Holder, Ariz. 



The statement is made in a previous paragraph that goats are omnivo- 

 rous eaters, apparently preferring those kinds of vegetation that other 

 animals do not eat. The information in the quotations just given indi- 

 cates that they will feed upon a great variety of plants. With the 

 object in view of ascertaining the different kinds of plants that these 

 goats feed upon, the Bureau requested several stock raisers in various 

 States and Territories in the country to report answers to the question, 

 "What kind of browse do your goats have?" Some information of 

 this character is in the quotations above and more will be found in 

 the replies copied below, credit for the statements being given to the 

 State only: 



All kinds of bushes, such as scrub oak, cedar, etc., in Texas. In this part of New 

 Jersey most everything that exists in Texas, except scrub oak and live oak, may be 

 found. — New Jersey. 



Black oak, sumac, buck bushes, briers, and all kinds of weeds. They will not eat 

 grass if they can get browse. — Missouri. 



Buck bush, elders, sumac, prickly ash, briers, grapevines, jack oak, ash, sycamore, 

 basswood, and hickory. The latter they do not seem to care much ior.—Kmisas. 



Brush, weeds, and grass. — Texas. 



In southern New Mexico they have live oak and mahaisrony. They do best on 

 scrub oak. — New Mexico. 



Oak, hazel, vine maple, ash, willow, rosebush, thimbleberry, blackberry, buck 

 bush, service berry, crab apple, haw berry, soft maple, and some fir. — Oregon. 



Mostly mountain oak and other classes of underbrush. They will not eat grass if 

 brush is obtainable. — New Mexico. 



Oak and hazel. — Oregon. 



Maple, hazel, willow, fir, thimbleberry, cascaia, vine maple, c-herry, alder, and 

 salol. — Oregon. 



Willow, ash, and buck bush on low, swampy lutid in .suuuuer time, and straw and 

 fir brush in winter months. — Oregon. 



Apple, fir, oak, ash, willow, maple, and poi)lar. — Oregon. 



