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Owners of angora goats who contemplate 



Angora exhibiting their animals at any of the 



Goats. fairs this fall will be interested to know 



that the American Angora Goat Breeders' 



Association offers a special award to the successful 



exhibitor of the best group or flock of Angora goats 



exhibited at any of the state, county or other fairs. 



The American Angora Goat Breeders' Associa- 

 tion was organized in 1900 and maintains the only rec- 

 ord of thoroughbred Angora goats in America. It is 

 the national organization representing and champion- 

 ing this breed of live stock in the United States. It 

 has 500 members representing nearly every state and 

 territory, and has over 58,000 animals recorded on its 

 pedigree register. 



It is the purpose of the association to encourage 

 the breeding of Angora goats, to improve and perfect 

 the breed and to protect and promote the 'interests ol 

 this breed of live stock. 



The association obtains and diffuses information re- 

 garding the history, character, care and raising of 

 Angora goats ; it holds a national competitive exhibit of 

 animals annually at Kansas City, at which liberal pre- 

 miums are provided, and also patronizes and supports 

 other Angora goat exhibits throughout the country to 

 the encouragement and benefit of the Angora goat 

 breeders of the United States. The headquarters of the 

 association are at Kansas City, Mo., though the resi- 

 dent office of the secretary, John W. Fulton, is at 

 Helena, Mont. 



Many inquiries concerning Angora husbandry are 

 reported as having been received at the office of the 

 association from this state which has led to the con- 

 clusion that the subject is one of considerable interest 

 here and especially so among owners of waste brushy 

 land, as Angora goats, due to being natural browsers, 

 are very successful in clearing and reclaiming such 

 tracts. The poorest pastures and range lands inex- 

 pensive locations are well adapted to Angora goat 

 raising, and for this reason Angoras are quite aptly 

 styled, "The Poor Man's Friend." 



Much interesting literature on Angora husbandry 

 is now available. A list of the various publications 

 and free bulletins on this subject may be had by ad- 

 dressing the secretary of the association. 



Many of the illustrations used in the Feb- 

 Illustrations. ruary issue are furnished us by the firm 



of D. H. Bane & Co., colonization agents 

 and sellers of irrigated lands, Railway Exchange build- 

 ing, Chicago. This firm deals almost exclusively in 

 lands along the line of the Santa Fe Railway and is 

 doing good work in colonizing hitherto undeveloped 

 territory. 



Send $2.50 for The Irrigation Age one year and The 

 Primer of Irrigation, 300 page book. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



BY G. L. SHUMWAY. 



WAS ever there a constitutional amendment adopted 

 whicli made our nation a socialistic commonwealth? 

 It seems to be conceded that federal interest in public 

 land is now proprietary. Policies of an administra- 

 tion do not alter laws or the constitution, and any as- 

 sumption along that line is outside of legitimate execu- 

 tive duties. 



HERETOFORE, unclaimed areas were commons, upon 

 which any citizen had a right to travel or tarry, and 

 was free to cultivate and use, but now the man with 

 the white covered wagon becomes a trespasser when- 

 ever he enters public domain. Heretofore he gathered 

 cow-chips for his campfire without a permit from some 

 "little father" at Washington. Heretofore the prairie 

 and the mountains were the free range of the pioneer. 

 Now wherever he goes it is by the indulgence of the 

 administration, and he must suffer an espoinage that is 

 humiliating to any honest man. 



SENATOR CARTER'S protest against the $750,000 

 appropriation to pay expenses of special agents, hits 

 the nail squarely on the head. "I resent the wholesale 

 imputation against the integrity of every settler, and 

 venture to assert that the people of the West are as 

 honest as the special agents sent out to find fault with 

 them." 



THE old guerilla chief, Colonel Mosby, is accred- 

 ited with an interview attacking Senators Deitrich and 

 Millard, and otherwise maligning the West. The re- 

 doubtable colonel is busy alternately denying and ac- 

 knowledging the authenticity of the interview, which 

 of itself would be amusing if it did not bear upon one 

 of the tragedies of the West. Here is a little of it: 



"Even some of the cattlemen among them Corn- 

 stock and Richards, who were convicted the other day 

 threatened my life if I did not leave the State. I 

 scorned their threats on my life, and defied them. I 

 am afraid of no man or set of men, as my record in 

 the war will show." "Record" (a guerilla was re- 

 sponsible to no law) and then that happened nearly 

 half a century ago. That is one trouble with the 

 President's advisers they are years behind. "Afraid" 

 only cowards malign character to further their own 

 ambitions. Only cravens will use the power of federal 

 authority to poison public opinion, or manufacture 

 sentiment against accused. 



I READ the abominable rot, then looked out upon 

 the prairies of Nebraska, and saw, instead of lawless- 

 ness, the smallest percentage of illiteracy and crime of 

 any State in the Union. I saw a triumph of peaceful 



