4(50 now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



rived the greatest satisfaction from the attention I have be 

 stowed upon them. They are very prolific, well adapted to our 

 climate, and are profitable, not only for their wool, but for their 

 skins, which makes the most beautiful furs for the use of 

 ladies and children. Their flesh is superior in flavor to that of 

 truiton. 



" I have now on my farm upwards of one hundred and fifty 

 head, nnd I can state with certainty that it costs no more to 

 raise and keep two good goats than one sheep. 



" Dogs are not inclined to molest them. They are not partial 

 in their choice of food, and will live on any kind of herbage. 

 They are very domestic in their habits, and readily seek their 

 proper shelter at night, and evince a ready instinct to seek 

 shelter from a coining storm." 



These are great advantages, not the least of which is that they 

 will defend themselves against the dogs, whose ravages are so 

 destructive among the sheep. 



The fleece of the Cashmere goat weighs from four to nine 

 pounds. They seem to improve in this country both in size 

 and weight of fleece. Says the authority before quoted: 



" The skins of the mature animals are dressed for robes, which 

 sell for from fifteen dollars to twenty-five dollars. The skins 

 of the young are dressed for furs, colored or not, and command 

 often fifty dollars each, for such has been the progress of Ihe 

 wor.sted manufacture within the last ten years, that machinery 

 already exists in this country and Europe upon which tnis 

 fleece can be made into every fabric to which it has been 

 applied in the East, with equal success and far greater dispatch 

 At present the main effort should be directed towards import- 

 ing perfect specimens of the wool bearing animals, and crossing 

 tbem upon the common goats already in the country. By this 

 means the latter are so much improved as to be in the third or 



