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publications in encouragement of the production of mohair, 

 and several of them now make quotations of it in their 

 monthly reports. Besides the manufacture of it into 

 fringes, laces, tassels, ornaments and hosiery, several ex- 

 tensive factories of it into dress goods, and into plush for 

 the covering of chairs, sofas, etc., and especially into the 

 covering of railroad car seats, have been established and are 

 in successful operation in the United States. For this last 

 named use mohair is especially adapted, and it will require 

 all which can ever be produced. 



Some of the mohair which I have produced has been 

 satisfactorily sold on commission for me by Messrs. Bauen- 

 dahl, of the city of New York. Several clips, raised by 

 me here, and also my partner in a flock, Mr. J. W. Dunn, 

 of Corpus Christi, Texas, has been satisfactorily sold by 

 Messrs. Kitching Bros., of 82 Reade street, city of New 

 York, who quote it regularly. Messrs. Justice, Bateman & 

 Co., extensive and reliable wool merchants of Philadelphia, 

 have recently issued a circular specially on this product, 

 which every agricultural paper should publish. They say 

 " mohair fleece can be raised in perfection in the United 

 States," and they give excellent practical directions for its 

 growth and management which every goat raiser should re- 

 gard. 



I have also shipped, by freight, several clips to the Farr 

 Alpaca Company, of Holyoke, Mass., who have made to me 

 positive reports of satisfactory sales, both graded and in 

 bulk, giving me also the privilege of re-shipping it to be 

 sold OP commission if I preferred. I have also corres- 

 ponded with Messrs. Hall & Turner, the proprietors of the 

 Jamestown, New York, Alpaca Company, and I am assured 

 that shipments may be made to them with like satisfaction. 

 These two companies alone would manufacture at least a 

 half million pounds of mohair annually, if they could get 

 that of American growth and good quality. 



It is scarcely possible that the supply will ever fully 



