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time I have over 600 acres that have been reclaimed by Angoras, and a 

 conservative estimate would be that the value of the land had thereby 

 been enhanced at least $10 per acre." 



XXIX. Angoras in the United States. 



Of the 500,000 Angora goats in the Ujiited States, four-fifths are in 

 the Southwest, especially in California, New Mexico and Texas. Yet 

 there is not a state in the Union where they will not do well, as well as 

 sheep, and when we consider their vast superiority as money-makers over 



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the sheep, it seems strange that shrewd live-stock men have not seen the 

 handwriting on the wall and gone more extensively into goat raising. 

 The problem of pasturage in the West will have to be solved by the 

 sheep men if they intend to remain in business, but the goat pasturage 

 of the United States has not yet been touched. 



In the timbered regions of the South and the Southwest, and in the 

 cut-over sections of the North, there are millions of acres of the finest 



