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country explains the presence of brown or yellow tinted 

 coarse hair that succeeds the annual shedding of the mohair, 

 which is in turn shed, and displaced by the mohair on some 

 imported animals. 



The facility with which ihe Angora crosses on the native 

 American goat, and the aptitude they possess in acclimation, 

 coupled with the boundless territory in the United States 

 suited directly and only to the subsistence of goats, all com- 

 bined, give an augury of an industry limited only by the 

 boundaries of our national possessions, and second to no 

 other agricultural interest in revenue and profit. 



The goat is both graminivorous and herbivorous, but when 

 left to a choice of food, will subsist entirely on bushes, briers 

 and weeds, and on that class of vegetation that serves as an 

 impediment to grass, and is rejected by all other stock, and 

 will earn his keeping in the service rendered as a vegetable 

 scavenger in ridding any farm of briers and bushes. 



By a comparative analysis of the profits arising from 

 sheep husbandry and Angora breeding, though I would not 

 disparage the sheep interest by advocating a reduction of 

 flocks or numbers, still the Angora interest is susceptible of 

 indefinite extension without, in any way, molesting the pro- 

 duction of wool and mutton. Sheep husbandry, per se, im- 

 plies perennial grass and high priced lands, while Angora 

 breeding signifies just the reverse thrives best on lands 

 devoid of grass rocky, brush hill tops, abandoned gully- 

 washed fields. The Cumberland mountains, with an alti- 

 tude above the fogs and heavy dews, covered with bushes and 

 briers for food, and its cliffs and protecting rocks as coverts 

 and safe retreats against rain, snow and wintry winds, will, 

 at no distant day, be appropriated as the" ranch of white, 

 silken fleeced Angoras. The amount of capital required in 

 starting a flock of 2,000 native ewes with full blood Angora 

 bucks, would be small in comparison with an enterprise of 

 the same magnitude with sheep. Two herders, with four 

 shepherd dogs, would be ample force to manage this num- 



