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been introduced into this country from Asia Minor, but 

 which I will be glad to obtain. 



Allow me, in conclusion, to say a word in vindication of 

 the goat, too much abused and shunned on account of his 

 breachy habits. These are to be attributed almost entirely 

 to his keeping the bad company of careless farmers, who 

 keep bad fences, under which he learns bad habits when 

 young. I usually keep them in two or three separate flocks^ 

 under fences of all kinds (except my hedges of Osage 

 orange, which they would eat up), and they are kept as 

 securely as any other stock, the stone fences being easily 

 fixed to retain them ; and all other stock will sometimes 

 break a fence, but a goat never will. 



THE VAN ANGORA OR CASHMERE GOATS. 



Editor Yeoman: 



The readers of your valuable paper may remember that, 

 in my article on Angora goats, which you published, allu- 

 sion was made to the circular of Messrs. Justice, Bateman 

 & Co., of Philadelphia, in which they recommended the 

 crossing of the Angora goats of the United States with the 

 Van goat of Asia Minor ; and in which they gave, also, 

 valuable directions for the production and preparation of 

 mohair, or goat's wool. 



Desiring to avail myself of every valuable improvement 

 in breeding these animals, I have instituted inquiries for 

 the Van goat, and I have a recent letter from Col. Keene 

 Richards, of Georgetown, Ky., in which he informed me 

 that, during his extensive travels in Asia Minor, when he 

 was selecting and shipping his fast horses, he saw large 

 flocks of the Van goat on the borders of Lake Van, be- 

 tween Kars and Mosul. Also that he has a fine oil paint- 

 ing of a good specimen of one drawn by Mr. E. Troy some 

 years since. 



If further developments conduce to show these animals 



