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measure of corn every evening until sometime in March. 

 The corn was worth 50 or 60 cents per bushel. Say as 

 much more for the trouble of feeding them, and you can 

 readily estimate the cost of wintering seventy goats. The 

 next winter I did not feed them until the 20th of March. 

 At this time we had a snow of eight or ten inches that 

 lasted three days. I brought the goats to the barn and fed 

 them all the hay they would eat during the snow. 



This winter snow fell on the eve of the 1st of January a 

 foot deep, and laid on a week or ten days ; and on New 

 Year's day we brought the goats to the barn and fed them 

 with hay until bare ground appeared, when the goats 

 marched off for the mountain, where they have remained 

 since, amusing themselves by nipping, browsing and picking 

 acorns. 



If the bucks are allowed to run with the flock, there 

 would be two crops of kids per year. One crop coming in 

 the fall or winter, would require extra care, or many kids 

 would be lost. I therefore decided to put the bucks in a 

 different lot and keep them separate until the 20th of No- 

 vember. The result was, that the first kid I saw 7 was on 

 the 21st of April, and within a week I could count between 

 fifty and sixty, and there were only forty ewes in the flock, 

 the balance being mostly wethers. 



Last spring my flock was increased by seventy-five kids; 

 and as I use only the full- blood Angora bucks, the grade 

 and quality is improving rapidly, although not of the first 

 quality of wool; yet I shall have an hundred goats to shear 

 this spring, and another crop of kids. The wool or mohair, 

 being mostly from grade goats and not fine enough for top 

 prices in the market, we have had it worked up on shares 

 for domestic use. 



Within the three years between thirty and forty of the 

 wethers have found their way to our table; half as many 

 more have been sold to our neighbors, principally for state 

 occasions, for the flesh of the Angora or grades is consid- 



