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losses. Mr. Robinson, having his ranch on the Fredericksburg road, has also sold 

 out for the same reason, and we hear of others who are determined to sell out. 

 Kendall, like Bandera County, will soon not have a sheepman within its hounds. 



A. E. Sliepard, ex-president of the State Wool-Growers' Association, 

 says: 



I turned 1,500 lambing sheep into one of my pastures, and at one time counted 

 over 500 lambs there. A short time after this I went through the flock and I had 

 only 38 lambs left. The wolves had taken all the others; and now, from those 

 1,500 lambing ewes I have not more than 25 lambs left, and the wolves will soon 

 do away with them. Besides the lambs, they pick off grown sheep every day and 

 night. 



Eight flockmasters in Uvalde County, when asked as to their losses 

 this season, counted up nearly 1,700 sheep. Mr. E. M. Kirkwood, of 

 Kimble County, lost 300 out of a flock of 2,000 head, last year. These 

 random examples represent the universal condition of the sheep in- 

 dustry in every part of the State. 



Almost every attempt at State legislation in behalf of the sheep in- 

 dustry has failed, for the simple reason that united action on the part 

 of all States interested can not be had. If Texas should be successful 

 in destroying wild animals, and the neighboring States do not, the evil 

 would soon spread again, and the destruction would continue. If all 

 could work together there is very little room for doubt that the coyote 

 and other destructive animals would soon be extinct. If a reasonable 

 bounty were offered, either by the States severally or the nation, for 

 the scalps of these destructive wild animals, they would be disposed of in 

 less time than was required to get rid of the buffalo. 



The extinction of these destructive wild animals would reduce the 

 cost of wool production fully one-half. It would beget confidence in 

 the business and make sheep husbandry the most profitable industry 

 in the West, besides saving the destruction of over $15,000,000 worth 

 of taxable property that is now destroyed annually by wild animals. 



ANGORA GOATS. 



The Angora goat originally came from the high table-lands of Asiatic 

 Turkey. In Texas large numbers of them have been raised within the 

 past thirty years. Mr. W. W. Haupt, a Texas stock-grower, estab- 

 lished a goat farm as early as I860, and he has made it a great success. 

 In a letter recently received from him he says: " There is no stock in- 

 dustry in Texas so remunerative as the Angora;" but like every other 

 vocation it requires experience and special training to make it success- 

 ful. 



Mr. Haupt, in March, 1889, complying with a request of Mr. Henry 

 W. Grady, of Atlanta, prepared a long and interesting article on the 

 Angora goat, which was published in the Southern Farmer. In that 

 article the author describes his method of handling this interesting 

 little animal. Here is an extract : 



I am now giving more assiduous attention to my goats than I have ever done, from 



