8 PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 



of the goats, and by a few other writers. That they 

 have not changed more is due to the fact that the 

 Turk is quite content as he is, and he has no ambition 

 to breed a different goat from what he has had for at 

 least the past three centuries. 



ASIA MINOR. 



Before we consider the migrations of the An- 

 gora goat, we will investigate the physical conditions 

 of their native province. The interior of Asia 

 Minor, or the Angora goat country, is from one to 

 four thousand feet above the sea level. Low, rolling 

 hills and broad plains, treeless and almost waterless; 

 dry, hot and desolate in the summer, and covered 

 with more or less snow in the winter, form the habitat 

 of the Angora. A small fine fibered sage brush is 

 the principal diet of the goat, both summer and win- 

 ter, but in the spring this diet is supplemented with 

 weeds and some grass, and in the summer some of 

 the goats are driven to the higher mountains, where 

 there are some scrub pines and other varieties of 

 brush. There is no winter feeding. The goats make 

 their own living on the tops of the sage brush, which 

 protrude through the snow. 



The indolent Turks do make some provision for 

 the shelter of themselves and the goats in the winter. 

 If a cave can be found it is divided so that the goats 

 share the quarters with the humans. Sometimes an 



