PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 9 



adobe house is so arranged that the goats and other 

 livestock occupy the lower part of the house and the 

 natives the upper part, or if there be but one floor, a 

 low fence is run across to keep the livestock out of 

 the living quarters. Great greyish-white wolfish 

 looking dogs, wearing formidable collars of sharp- 

 ened spikes go with the shepherds during the day 

 and watch the flocks during the night. They are 

 used as a means of protection from thieves, and not 

 as an aid in herding. The flocks camp around the 

 cave or hut, and are not confined in corrals. Fences 

 are almost unknown in the Angora country. There 

 are probably four or five million Angora goats in Asia 

 Minor. Much of the central plateau region of the 

 United States is very similar to the Angora region of 

 Turkey. A peculiar fact is that the mohair pro- 

 duced in the different sections of Asia Minor varies 

 a little, and the mohair merchants of Constantinople 

 readily recognize an appreciable difference in its 

 market value. Even the smaller merchants in the 

 country recognize a difference in the mohair grown 

 within a few miles of their town. Some try to ex- 

 plain this by a difference in food, others by slight 

 climatic changes, and still others by the soil forma- 

 tion. Some of the goats from the locality of Gere- 

 deh, in the province of Kastamouni, have fleeces 

 which are filled with grease. They are as black and 

 gummy as merino sheep. This mohair, however, 



