PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 27 



and they have been crossing the white Angora bucks 

 on the brown Koniah does. There are still over one 

 hundred thousand pounds of Koniah mohair produced 

 each year. In the Angora flocks of Asia Minor one 

 always finds some colored goats. Black, blue, brown 

 or red, usually with an admixture of white, are the 

 common colors. The same thing may be said of the 

 American flocks of Angoras. One may have been 

 breeding white Angoras for years when, without ap- 

 parent cause, a colored kid is dropped. Then color 

 of the soil may give the mohair a peculiar tinge, but 

 this usually scours out. The kemp in Asia Minor 

 is sometimes a different color from the mohair. The 

 kemp may be red or black and the mohair white. 

 White mohair is what the manufacturer wants. If 

 he wishes to make colored goods, he can dye white 

 whatever color he wishes, but a colored mohair can 

 only be used for certain colored goods. 



GRADES AND GRADING OF MOHAIR. 



In Turkey, after the fleece is shorn, the owner 

 packs each fleece separately in sacks. He picks out 

 the tag locks, colored fleeces or objectionable mohair, 

 and after washing it, or making it more fit for mar- 

 ket, he packs this in a sack by itself. Every village 

 has its buyers, usually Greeks or Armenians, and 

 there are a few traveling buyers. These men grad- 

 ually collect the mohair. Men who have more money 



