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The milk. The Angora is not primarily a milch goat, 

 and is not often employed for that purpose. Information 

 at hand shows that the quantity of milk given by an 

 Angora doe is uncertain, and in exceptional cases only 

 does it approach in quantity that produced by the estab- 

 lished breeds of milch goats, such as the Toggenburg, 

 Saanen, Maltese and Nubian. 



The meat. The flesh of Angora goats is exceedingly 

 nutritious and palatable. When properly fattened, they 

 produce a meat so nearly like the best lamb that it takes 

 an expert to detect the difference. A large number of 

 Angoras are slaughtered annually in Texas, Arizona, 

 New Mexico and California. In Cape Colony, it is 

 said that old does are slaughtered to furnish meat for 

 farm hands, and young wethers are sold to butchers in 

 the towns. 



Kansas City is the leading goat market, over sixty 

 thousand head having been sold in this one market in 

 one year. 



Protection for sheep. There is very little complaint 

 heard from breeders of Angora goats concerning the 

 ravages of dogs. Bucks can be trained to fight dogs and 

 thus be a protection to sheep. A few goats will stay with 

 a flock of sheep, but if there are many of them they will 

 be likely to separate. 



Pets. As pets for children, Angora goats are popular. 

 They are remarkably intelligent and are easily trained. 

 They are often harnessed to carts. 



490. Organizations and records. The American An- 

 gora Goat Breeders' Association, organized in 1900, main- 

 tains the only record of pure-bred Angora goats in America. 

 This organization has a membership of over five hundred 

 breeders, representing nearly every state and territory in 



