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years, however, demonstrated the fact that a common 

 goat, with a little admixture of Angora blood, did not 

 produce either the quality or the quantity of fleece 

 wanted. Only a few of the more persistent breeders 

 continued the experiment and their investigations. 

 They sent and went to the home of the Angora, and 

 brought more of the original animals to America. It 

 took the American breeders about thirty years to find 

 out just what the Angora goat was and how he should 

 be handled. During that thirty years large flocks of 

 common goats, which had been crossed with the An- 

 gora, and which might be properly termed " grade 

 flocks," had been formed. Only a few thoroughbred 

 flocks, that is, flocks of the original Angora, as he 

 came from Turkey, were in existence. 



CROSSING WITH THE 



COMMON SHORT HAIRED COAT. 



By experience we have learned that the common 

 short coarse haired goat can be crossed with the An- 

 gora goat, and that after sufficient crosses have been 

 made, the cross-bred Angora so nearly resembles the 

 thoroughbred that for all practical purposes he is an 

 Angora. We have also learned that certain kinds of 

 common goats respond rapidly to the infusion of An- 

 gora blood, and that others retain certain peculiari- 

 ties of the common goat for generations. The An- 

 gora will not cross with sheep. For instance, a com- 

 mon goat with a long mane on the back, or tuft of 



