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for yarding the flock at shearing time they are invaluable, 

 and I have known them pilot slaughter stock on hoard 

 vessels in the Cape Town docks without the least difficulty. 

 Being of an otherwise valueless breed and having no fleece 

 worth shearing they are consequently rarely handled and so 

 losing all timidity amongst men they fully enjoy the dignity 

 of their position. 



Enquiries I have made to ascertain particulars of the 

 Angora goats still remaining in Tasmania have not been 

 successful. There is some reason for suspecting that attempts 

 previously made here, and perhaps in the other colonies, to 

 establish the industry have not been so successful as other- 

 wise might have been the case, owing to the goats having been 

 kept on open grass country. This is clearly a mistake. Rough, 

 mountainous and scrubby ground is far more suitable, and it 

 is with a view to encourage the occupation of such districts and 

 so assist to a small extent in developing the natural resources 

 of the colony that I venture to recommend the farming of 

 Angora goats as an industry quite worth a patient and 

 careful trial. 



