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as superior to all others of their race, I will hope 

 to obtain one for crossing on my flock next season. 

 At present I am breeding a flock of sixty choice females 

 to the superior buck, Ulysses II., of Eutychides' im- 

 portation. 



The great decline in the price of sheep's wool since the 

 war has not only given to the public taste a strong direction 

 to such breeds as are best for the production of wool and 

 mutton combined, but also to the breeding of wool- bearing 

 goats; and it has been uniformly demonstrated that the 

 same feed which will subsist three sheep will also subsist 

 five goats of the wool-bearing kind ; and the fleeces of these 

 five goats will produce about double the value of the wool 

 of the three sheep, while they will also produce more meat 

 of equal if not better quality ; and so, also, of their hides, 

 and their tallow, and their skins with the mohair on them. 



Although the times are so hard and so repressive of 

 everthing new and enterprising, yet I have very many more 

 inquiries for goats than ever before; also several proposi- 

 tions to breed them on the shares, and I am making some 

 valuable sales to various parts of the country. 

 Respectfully, etc., 



ROBERT W. SCOTT. 

 December, 1878. 



GOATS IN TENNESSEE. 



GRASSY COVE, TENN., June 23, 1377. 

 J. B. KILLEBREW, Esq. 



Dear Sir Yours of the 2d inst. is at hand. I wrote an 

 article for The South in March, which I enclose. I do not 

 know as I can write anything much different and do justice 

 to the subject. Every month's experience more fully con- 

 vinces me that the raising of the Angora goats in the Cum- 

 berland Mountains can be made a great success. A flock 

 of from 200 to 500 are absolutely less trouble than ten or a 

 dozen, as they constitute a community of themselves, and 



