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Angora skins properly dressed are used, white or tinted, to manufacture rugs, robes, 

 carriage mats, fur sets for children, trimming for ladies' furs, and also for dusters, 

 horse head tassels, doll hair, and wigs. They are mostly imported raw from Cape of 

 Good Hope and Turkey, and range in value, duty paid, from $1.50 up to |3.50 each, 

 undressed. Domestic skins are worth from 50 cents for kids up to |2 each for large 

 full-fleeced pelts. The low, crossbred, common skins and short pelts not suitable to 

 dress are used by morocco and glove leather manufacturers, and are worth from 15 

 to 18 cents a pound for large sizes down to 10 and 11 cents for small ones and kids. 



PROTECTION FOR SHEEP. 



The ability and inclination of the buck to fight varmints has made 

 him in many places a valuable acquisition in herds of sheep. It is 

 said that dogs and wolves will not only not attack a grown goat, but 

 will not venture into a herd of sheep where there is a buck goat. Many 

 owners of sheep in this country recognize the value of the goat in this 

 respect, and keep one or more for the purpose of protection for their 

 sheep. This practice is especially desirable in pastures where there is 

 no herder or immediate oversight. If one or two goats are placed when 

 young in a herd of sheep they will remain with them all the time. An 

 extensive breeder of Pennsylvania says: "While goats do not fear 

 dogs, and will even fight, I prefer to keep dogs out. I have seen them 

 driv^e a dog out of the yard, and oftentimes a single goat will protect 

 a flock of sheep from attacks by dogs." If they are old and not accus- 

 tomed to being with sheep, they will in all probability keep to them- 

 selves, away from the sheep. They may be depended upon to do this 

 certainly if there is quite a number of them. They are more rapid 

 walkers and more inclined to wander than sheep, and so will flock by 

 themselves. Their protection to sheep will thus prove a failure. 



It is quite amusing to see the courage of a doe when she protects her young kid 

 from a dog, or hog, or flock of buzzards. Two of my neighbors' dogs got in the 

 habit of killing my kids, and one doe protected her kid quite a while from the two 

 large, vicious dogs until the neighbor caught one of the dogs and gave him a good 

 whipping, when the goat assisted in this work by butting the dog with all her might. 

 You should train the goats to be brave by taking your dogs into the goat pen with 

 you, and, in case the dog refuses to run from a brave goat, scold the dog to make 

 the goat think that she whipped him. If you had a tame wolf trained in that way 

 you could train your goats to fight wolves. — H. T. Fuchs. 



ENRICHMENT OF LAND. 



The enrichment of land from the droppings of goats is decidedly 

 noticeable wherever they are kept for a year or more. This factor is 

 of no small importance where goats have been employed to clear the 

 brush from land with the object in view of turning the land into grass 

 pasture. Such land, especially if hilly and rocky, is usually in need 

 of fertilizers of any kind if cropping is to be attempted upon it. 

 The manure of goats and sheep is about equal in value. A Cali- 

 fornia firm has been selling Angora manure for fertilizing fruit trees 



