70 PKACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 



goats kill the shrubs by eating the leaves and by 

 peeling the bark from the branches and trunks of the 

 trees. The brush thus deprived of lungs, soon dies 

 and the roots rot. As fast as the leaves grow they 

 must be consumed, so it is well to allow the goats to 

 eat most of the leaves off of a limited tract, and then 

 in order to give the goats plenty of feed, they should 

 be moved to another field. As soon as the leaves on 

 the first tract have regrown the goats should be again 

 confined to this land. In this way the leaves are con- 

 tinually destroyed. This process can be continued 

 as fast as the leaves regrow. By this method it is 

 estimated that a bunch of one hundred to one hun- 

 dred and fifty goats will clear forty acres of thick 

 brush in about two years. In countries where the 

 grass grows as the brush dies, goats will eat some of 

 this grass, but they prefer the browse. 



On some of the older goat ranches, where the 

 Angora has been raised exclusively for the mohair 

 and mutton, it has become quite a problem to pre- 

 vent the goats from killing out the brush. The goats 



have done well where other kinds of livestock would 



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have starved, but as soon as the brush is killed the 

 land produces almost nothing, and even the goats can- 

 not make a living. To prevent as far as possible 

 their killing the brush the flocks are moved fre- 

 quently from one range to another, so that the shrubs 

 have a chance to recuperate between visits. In this 



