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climate of the Himalayas, Thibet and Eassia, feeding on shrubs 

 and the scanty vegetation of those sterile regions; also in the 

 warmer climates of Persia, Turkey and Cashmere. There- 

 fore, since this natural habitat embraces all the degrees of lati- 

 tude, including the United States, and has a similar variety of 

 climate, mountains, etc., reason and common sense teach, that 

 every variety of the wool bearing goat will thrive in most parts 

 of the United States, particularly in the mountainous and more 

 barren portions, as well as in any region on the globe, while 

 abundant experience has established the fact, that wherever this 

 goat has been introduced, he has flourished as well as the 

 sheep." 



All the evidence at hand shows without doubt that the goat 

 thrives with less care and on more scanty herbage than ■ the 

 sheep, and is especially adapted to the mountainous grazing re- 

 gions of the Northern States. In New England, where the wool 

 would be at the door of the mills of Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut, we can imagine no addition to the farm stock which 

 would be productive of more wealth than the goat. Their flesh 

 makes the nicest of meat, their milk is worth twice that of cow's 

 milk, and often gives twice as much cream as the richest cow's 

 milk. Goat's milk is often ordered for children and the sick by 

 our best physicians, and its peculiarly nutritious and healthful 

 qualities have long been known and acknowledged by the 

 medical fraternity. For many ^'ears to come their wool will 

 be much more valuable than that of the sheep, while they can 

 be kept at less expense, and will pay a large proportion of their 

 keep in milk. 



An extensive breeder in Ohio writes to the Ruratisi : " For a 



number of years I have been somewhat extensivelv engaged in 



breeding these Cashmere and other breeds of goats. I have 



found the Cashmere especially healthy and hardy, and have de- 

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