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long hair behind the foreleg, or on the Hank or the 

 hip, will continue to perpetuate this long coarse hair on 

 the offspring for generations, even though the best of 

 Angora blood be infused. The color of the common 

 goat is of some importance. A brown or reddish brown 

 goat retains the reddish cast at the base of the mo- 

 hair much longer than one of a bluish or bluish 

 black color. It is equally true that a pure white 

 mother may drop a colored kid occasionally. In 

 Constantinople the mohair is graded into parcels con- 

 taining red kemp, black kemp, etc. There it is the 

 kemp which retains the color. As has been stated, 

 there is also a breed of brown Angora goats, or at 

 least mohair-producing goats, in Koniah in Asia 

 Minor. Presuming, then, that one has a suitable 

 common doe and a good Angora buck as a basis, the 

 following may be deduced as relative changes in the 

 different crosses: 



The first cross, or half-blood Angora, will have a 

 covering of short coarse common hair and a thin cov- 

 ering of mohair, which does not grow very long. If 

 the animal were to be shorn, possibly a half pound of 

 hair of a very inferior grade might be yielded. If 

 this hair were to be offered to a manufacturer, he 

 would class it as noil, and refer it to a carpet manu- 

 facturer, who would possibly pay ten or twelve cents 

 a pound for it. The skin of the animal will be a lit- 

 tle fluffy, and not suitable for fine goat skin trade. 



