12* PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 



possibly some of the original importation to various 

 parties, but in 1854, Col. Kichard Peters, of Atlanta, 

 Georgia, secured most of the Davis goats. To Col. 

 Peters really belongs the credit of keeping the Angora 

 breed in existence in the United States up to the 

 early sixties. Col. Peters was very fond of his An- 

 goras, and he continued to own and run them up to 

 the time of his death. He made a very creditable 

 exhibit at the New Orleans World's Fair in 1885. 



THE CHENERY IMPORTATIONS. 



W. W. Chenery of Belmont, near Boston, Mas- 

 sachusetts, is supposed to have made the next two 

 importations in 1861. No one seems to know exactly 

 how many goats Mr. Chenery imported or what be- 

 came of these lots. Mr. Thompson quotes the Mas- 

 sachusetts Ploughman as saying, "The first of the 

 two lots, consisting of thirty nine animals, was ship- 

 ped from Constantinople on the 26th of March, 1861, 

 and arrived at Boston on the 15th of May, except two 

 animals which died on the passage. The second lot 

 consisting of forty one head, left Constantinople on 

 the 6th of October, 1861, and arrived at Boston on 

 the 25th of November with the loss of only one on 

 the voyage. In the whole flock, eighty in all, there 

 were about a dozen males, and all the animals winter- 

 ed well." 



It is generally supposed that Mr. Chenery made 

 another importation in 1866, of about twenty head. 



