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do not seek the barn and other stock for association, and 

 consequently are less liable to get in mischief. 



Yours truly, LORENZO STRATTON. 



[From The South.] 



Your letter is at hand, asking for any information, de- 

 rived from personal experience, on the subject of Angora 

 goat raising on the table-lands of East Tennessee. 



Although it is a little out of my line to write for publi- 

 cation, I can, after my style, give you a short history of the 

 facts. Two years ago last April I purchased seventy goats; 

 eight of them, four ewes and four bucks, were supposed to 

 be full-blood Angoras; thirty were grades or half-bloods; 

 the balance were the common scrub goat of the country. 

 The winter previous to my purchase the goats had been 

 confined in a small enclosure, improperly fed, and without 

 opportunity to help themselves. They were consequently 

 in a bad condition ; several of the old ones had died ; be- 

 tween fifty and sixty kids had been lost in February and 

 March, and it was with some difficulty that I succeeded in 

 getting my purchase home alive. But I had a pasture ready 

 for them that has proved to be well suited to their wants; 

 it was a mile and a half long by a quarter of a mile wide; 

 that is to say, the pasture reached from the bottom lands a 

 quarter of a mile up the mountain, and then extended one 

 mile and a half parallel with the mountain and bottom 

 lands; it is something over a mile to the top of the moun- 

 tain, and my pasture hardly extends a fourth of the way 

 up. This side hill is a rich limestone soil, but excessively 

 rocky and rough, with ledges and cliffs extending down 

 near the middle of the pasture, more than half way across 

 it. A flock of Spanish sheep had run in this pasture for 

 several years; but the bushes and briers were gaining on 

 the sheep, and the acres of clover were growing less and 

 less every year. Into this pasture I turned the goats on 

 the 9th day of April. Leaves on the briers and bushes 



