FOOD, CLIMATE AND 

 PROTECTION. 



N the mountains and in the valleys of the 

 United States the Angora has had 

 a variety of food. He is a natural 

 browser, and will live almost entirely 

 on brush, if this kind of food is 

 to be found, but he readily adapts himself to circum- 

 stances, and will live and do well upon an exclusively 

 grass diet. The fact that the goat is a browser has 

 been made use of in clearing farms of brush and ob- 

 jectional weeds. If a sufficient number of goats are 

 confined upon a limited area for a period of time, 

 they will kill most of the brush upon this land. 

 They will eat almost every kind of brush, but they 

 have their preferences and enjoy especially black- 

 berry vines and those kinds of brush which contain 

 tannic acid, such as scrub oak. They do not poison 

 easily, and if there is a variety of food they rarely 

 eat enough of any kind of poisonous plant to prove 

 fatal. If, however, they are hungry, and have access 

 to places where there are poisonous plants, they will 

 eat enough to kill themselves. 



KILLING BRUSH. 



If one wishes to clear brush land, he should con- 

 fine the goats to a comparatively small tract. The 



