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will contain one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, 

 and it is ready for market. The female goats should 6e 

 handled with great care, as, in this climate, they are then 

 heavy with young. 



THE MARKET VALUE OF MOHAIR. 



The market value of mohair fluctuates considerably with 

 fashion and taste for alpaca dress goods, which nre made 

 chiefly of this material, notwithstanding the name. The 

 price also sympathizes with the price of fine lustrous wool. 



HOW TO START A FLOCK, AND HOW TO PREPARE THE 

 MOHAIR FOR MARKET. 



(From the Courier-Journal.) 



The recent publication in your widely-circulated paper of 

 my article on the relative value of sheep and goats as wool- 

 bearing animals has brought me very many letters of in- 

 quiry from all parts of the country in regard to Angora or 

 Cashmere goats (to all of which I have replied), and I now 

 wish to give my views as to the cheapest and most practical 

 manner of producing a flock of wool-bearing animals, and 

 how the wool or mohair can be best put in the market. 



The great obstacle to prompt action in the matter is the 

 first cost of a flock, and this obstacle has been greatly over- 

 come by recent reduction in price to one hundred dollars 

 per pair, instead of one hundred dollars each, the former 

 price. The purchaser should then provide himself with 

 about fifty select female common goats to be bred to the 

 pure buck. These, in small numbers, are scattered all over 

 the country, and once could be had near Memphis, Tenn., 

 at fifty cents each, and can now be had in Texas and New 

 Mexico at that price. The mohair, or fine wool, will be 

 thus implanted in the kids of the first crop, but it is not of 

 appreciable value, if shorn, as it will be but little longer 

 than the native hair of the animals; though all hair, even 



