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will browse on bushes and young trees and injure them, 

 and hence they are sometimes used to clear new ground 

 of brush or chaparral, of which they will eat almost 

 any kind. Hence, they must, even more than sheep, 

 be kept out of forests in which the reproduction of 

 young trees is desired. In a garden a goat will do 

 great damage in a short time. 



FIG. 199. An Angora prize winner (owned by C. P. Bailey & Sons). 



Goats will climb mountains and rocks where neither 

 sheep nor cows could go, and make a good living. 

 They will leap or climb over low fences very easily. 

 They are therefore most commonly seen in mountain- 

 ous countries. 



