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WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



the owner gave up the idea of raising his own goat skins 

 in large quantities and went back to the old method of 

 obtaining his supplies for tanning purposes. 



Angoras. For many years the raising of a higher 

 class of goat, the Angora, has been carried on in the 

 United States, particularly in the Southwest and on the 

 Pacific Coast, where there are several herds of imported 



Angoras on Brushy Hillsides in Arizona. 



goats from the best blood in South Africa and Asia. 

 The value of these animals is two-fold, like that of 

 sheep, in that they furnish a material for manufacturing 

 purposes in their hair, and also yield food. 



Goats can be raised on lands that furnish but little 

 feed for any other domestic animal. Brushy hillsides are 

 their abiding places and the more rugged and rocky the 



