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of one female from a dealer in New York 

 who always sets his own price. The actual 

 return was $10 for two pounds, $28 for seven 

 pounds, and $1 for five pounds. The same 

 dealer paid the Goat and Live-stock Company 

 of Montana $6.50 a pound for twenty-two 

 pounds of long hair; but, of course, in both 

 cases the mohair was especially long and fine, 

 the animals which produced it having been 

 bred and cared for under the supervision of 

 clever and experienced owners. But, as the 

 Department of Commerce and Labor re- 

 ported in 1905, four of the leading mills 

 of the country used 1,886,975 pounds of 

 domestic mohair, and imported 1,174,935 

 pounds, it shows that the supply does not 

 by any means meet the demand. Mohair is 

 a chief material used in manufacturing up- 

 holstery plush, imitation Astrachan, lap-robes, 

 table and couch covers, wigs, and doubtless 

 lots of things I don't know anything about, 

 so can't enumerate. But as it has been esti- 

 mated that 4,184,492 yards of plush had been 



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