458 now TO MAKE THE FAKM PAY. 



should l)c spayed and fatted. The animal is laid on the left side 

 aud firmly held by the assistants. An incision is then made, 

 and the fore finger inserted until it finds the ovaries ; these are 

 drawn out of the opening and both cut off at once. The womb 

 is returned and the wound sewed up, and rubbed over with a 

 little lard. Care should be taken for a few days after spaying 

 that they get neither wet nor cold. 



Goats. The goat is destined before many years to be an im- 

 portant member of our family of domestic animals, and a 

 source of wealth both to farmers and manufacturers. Already 

 preparations arc on foot for manufacturing the durable and 

 brilliant fabrics so long imported from Cashmere; already rich 

 worsted stuffs and richer drdss goods have been made in this 

 country, and we are promising ourselves, our daughter shall 

 have a Cashmere shawl from an American loom on her wedding 

 day. And it will be well for enterprising, far seeing men to 

 make an investment in this direction. 



The Cashmere or Angora goats, from whose silky hair 

 Buch lustrous articles are manufactured, are hardy, healthy, 

 and prolific. There are already some three or four thousand 

 of them in various parts of the country, and they have proved 

 their adaptation to the various climates of the United States. 

 They will thrive in bleak, cold, mountainous regions or in the 

 tropics. Says the " Wisco7isin Farme?," " The goat, generally, 

 ifl as cosmopolitan as the dog, or the sheep. He is found 

 amidst thesnows of Norway and Siberia, on the burning sands 

 of Africa, and in the flowery and poetic vales of Turkey and 

 Cashmere. The finest varieties of the wool bearing goat live 

 in different countries and latitudes, from Persia on the thirtieth 

 to Silesia on the sixtieth parallel north latitude; from China 

 in the east to Asia Minor in the west; even the most valua- 

 ble and delicate varieties, in the bleak, cold, mountainous 



