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of cattle and hogs, is of some commercial value. The males 

 of this first crop should be castrated when young, and they 

 will make (prejudice removed) as acceptable food as hogs or 

 sheep, and their hams, when salted and dried, can scarcely 

 be distinguished from venison, for which they often pass. 



The pelts of these animals, when grown, will defray all 

 the expense of their raising, and there is steady market for 

 them, many goats being raised in some countries for their 

 pelts chiefly. 



By the time the females of the first crop are two years 

 old they should be bred to a pure Angora buck, which most 

 probably will have been produced by the pure bred female, 

 purchased at first, and this is the reason why it is best to 

 buy such a female at first. The buck at first bought may 

 be again bred to the flock of common females, after which 

 it will be best to sell or exchange him. The mohair of the 

 animals of the second crop will commonly be long enough 

 to be shorn above the ends of the hair of the animals, and 

 can be sold for more than enough to defray the expense of 

 shearing, etc. The similar course should be pursued until 

 five crosses have been made, when the animals are called 

 full blood, the length of the mohair increasing with each 

 successive cross, and the hair disappearing from their fleeces; 

 though all of the animals, even the thoroughbred, will wear, 

 for two or three months, suits of short, coarse hair, after 

 their mohair has been shed or shorn annually in summer. 

 By the time four or five or more crosses have been made, 

 the animals can scarcely be distinguished from the pure 

 bred, and metal tags in the ears of the pure breds should 

 be used to distinguish them, though close inspection will 

 often disclose some coarse hairs in the fleeces of full bloods. 

 In this matter I do not write from speculation, but from 

 matured experience, having in this manner, several years 

 since, produced a valuable flock, irom which, besides fre- 

 quent small sales, I sold a small flock, chiefly of mixed 

 bloods, for $2,000 cash, and I now have a flock of sixty 

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