38 PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 



WORLD'S SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION. 



At present Asia Minor and South Africa can be 

 regarded as the two leading producers of mohair. 

 The Asia Minor exports vary considerably, according 

 to the price allowed, and as no manufactured stuff is 

 exported, one gets a fair idea of the amount produced. 

 It may be broadly stated that the Asia Minor clip 

 amounts to about nine million pounds annually. 

 That of South Africa amounts to about ten million 

 pounds, and the United States now produces about 

 one million pounds annually. Of this production a 

 very large percentage of that coming from all these 

 countries may be regarded as inferior stuff. We 

 mean by this, that the Angora goat raising industry 

 is yet in its infancy, and that much of the mohair 

 produced is sheared from goats which have been 

 bred from the common hair variety. Many of the 

 characteristics of the fleece of the common goat still 

 persist in the mohair. 



From the foregoing estimate the world's supply 

 of mohair may be stated as twenty million pounds 

 annually. Australia is as yet producing only a very 

 small amount. 



Practically eighty-five to ninety per cent, of the 

 world's supply of mohair is handled in Bradford, 

 England. Nearly all of the South African and 

 Turkish stuff is shipped directly to Bradford, a small 

 amount of the Constantinople export coming to 



