1>KI'ARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 



time to let the clover grow up for seed. The flock is then taken back to brush pasture 

 until the new-sown clover and rape is large enough to pasture. About the middle of July. 

 if the clover and tape fields are enough advanced, the kids are weaned from the does and 

 taken to the clover and rape fields for pasture. If "we have plenty of this sort of 

 pasture, we give one of the fields to the yearling buck flock, which puts them in good 

 shape for sale that fall. The does in the meantime are left in the brush pasture, where 

 they can be utilized to kill the sprouts on the stumps. After harvest the does are placed 

 on the stubble-fields, where they run as long as there is plenty of good picking. Along 

 about the first of October or November the bucks are turned with the does, so as to 

 have kids come from the first of March on. 



Before taking the flocks to the barns for winter feeding the whole flock is dipped. 

 We generally use Cooper's Dip. but there are some others just as good. Of course, 

 when using a poisonous dip, one should be very careful that the goats do not swallow 

 any of it. One advantage from using a poisonous dip is that you can kill both ticks 

 and nits with one dipping. 



MARKETING WETHERS, DOES, ETC. 



In Oregon wether goats at the present time bring from $1 to $2.50 per head, accord- 

 ing to quality, and does from $1.50 up. There has been a good demand, both from the 

 butchers and also from outside points, for any surplus that accumulates. 



PBOFITS rx RAISING GOATS. 



This is a subject that depends on so many things that it is rather hard to bring it 

 down to a matter with the raising of sheep, as they are handled in very much the same 

 way. We find the goats superior to sheep in pasturing fields with weeds, as they will 

 eat everything down even. They are especially good in pasturing young clover, as they 

 have not the weight of the large sheep of the Willamette Valley, and clean up all weeds 

 and brush along the fence-rows, which add greatly to the looks of the fields. 



In conclusion, will say that any one taking up the goat business must not expect 

 the animals to do it all, as they will amply repay any extra efforts that are put forth 

 in their behalf. 



SATURXA ISLAND, B.C. 



It is certainly true that I have owned Angoras for the last fifteen or twenty years, 

 bat it has been at long distance, as it were, as they live on the mountains and I see 

 them at close quarters only when I happen to go up there. 



I got them first with some sheep from the other side, as I understood at the time 

 that they constituted themselves as leaders when placed with a flock of sheep, and having 

 more brains than sheep, and not being as timid as sheep get to be. running more or less 

 wild out on the range, they were an advantage to have with the sheep. They certainly 

 would be the first to come out of the woods when one called the flock to be fed in winter. 



But I found they became a nuisance in the way of getting into any field of grain 

 or enclosed place one did not happen to want them in, as it seemed nothing to them 

 to jump from a tree-stump on to the top of a fence-post, and stand with all four feet 

 on th top of the post and from there jump down into the crop, or to walk along the 

 top rail of a fence was nothing to them. 



I finally had to chase them off into the mountains away from the cultivated land, 

 and there they have stopped ever since. 



They are not afraid of humans, but don't like dogs. They are very careless mothers, 

 and the eagles here profit by this, and carry away most of the kids. 



I understand, in places where they are raised for profit, the kids are kept in an 

 enclosure surrounded by a 12-inch board, and when the kids are old and strong enough 

 to jump over the board they are supposed to be capable of looking after themselves. 



I find their hair comes off in large mats every year. One often finds mats of hair 

 a pound or more in weight in the bush, and in the summer one often sees them walking 

 along with a great mat. 2 feet or more long, trailing behind them. 



As to the quality of the meat, that of a six-months-old kid is much more tender than 

 that of a lamb of the same age. but whiter in appearance. 



Twenty years ago large quantities of common goat crossed with Angora were ship'ped 

 by settlers on the American islands to Bellingham and other Sound towns, and sold by 

 butchers as mutton. 



A- to their eating brush. I have often seen them standing on their hind less, with 

 their front legs on the trunk of a tree, reaching up as high as they could for the leaves 

 of both willow and arbutus. I have an idea they would do well on brush alone. 



They seem quite content in winter on the mountains, and use the same places under 

 overhanging rocks where it is dry to sleep in summer and winter. 



A - to the sale of the hair. I believe at one time it went to 90 cents a pound in 

 California, and some people made fortunes with it. It was largely used to make the 

 covers for seats in railroad-cars, as the wearing qualities of the material made from it 



