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impart the brilliant colors for which they are so famous. 

 England long enjoyed a, monopoly of the trade in cashmere 

 shawls, and through the selfishness of the London import- 

 ers much of the difficulty of importation was due. 



There are two species of goats famous for the character 

 of the fleece. The Thibet goat is the true cashmere shawl 

 goat, but the distance is so great and the difficulties of ob-, 

 taining them so numerous, they are almost unknown to our 

 stock men. In Asia Minor is a vilayet called Angora, of 

 Avhich Angora is the capital. A species of goats called, 

 from this city, Angora, now are found, that so much resem- 

 ble the true Cashmere that only experts are able to distin- 

 guish them, and these have come into general use in Amer- 

 ica. The fleece is as good and equally as valuable, but there 

 are some insensible properties in the Cashmere that are of 

 but little practical importance, hence the Angora has super- 

 seded to a great extent the Cashmere. Dr. Scott, whose 

 able treatise we have used with his consent, says that Dr. 

 Davis brought over the Angora, while the Cyclopedia of 

 the Appletons says they were the Thibet goat. Be that as 

 it may, the price of a full-blooded buck is so greatly re- 

 duced that almost any farmer can avail himself of one, and 

 by crossing one of these " bucks " with a flock of the com- 

 mon goat, a fine character of cashmere wool, as it is mis- 

 called, can soon be obtained ; in fact, after five crosses the 

 fleece cannot be distinguished from the pure bred animal. 

 We hardly think our progressive people, however, can ever 

 be got into the manufacture of those famous shawls, as it 

 requires from one to five years work with several looms to 

 make a single shawl. Labor is so cheap in that overpopu- 

 lated country that good workmen can be obtained at a cost 

 of a few cents a day, and only merchants can engage in the 

 work, as the laborer can get nothing until his shawl is com- 

 pleted, and therefore must be fed by the employer while 

 engaged in its construction. There are many other uses 

 to which the wool can be "applied, and it is gaining more 



