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fresh fish would probably contain 50 to 60 per cent of water and 

 proportionately less nitrogen and phosphoric acid. Unless it 

 could be bought very cheaply it would not be an economical fer- 

 tilizer in your locality, as you would have to pay freight on a large 

 amount of water having no mamirial value. 



"Tankage can be obtained from the Portland Rendering Com- 

 pany, Portland, Me., guaranteed to carry 6 per cent nitrogen 

 and 14 per cent phosphoric acid, for about $20 per ton. This 

 mixed with muriate of potash, about 200 lbs. muriate to 1,800 lbs. 

 tankage, and about 1,000 lbs. of the mixture applied to the acre 

 would be good and economical manuring for grass or orchard 

 land. The muriate can be obtained of Kendall & Whitney, Port- 

 land, or the Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co., Bowdoinham, Me. Ashes 

 could be used with the tankage instead of the muriate, applying 

 about 800 lbs. tankage and 1,500 lbs. ashes to the acre. The 

 ashes should not be mixed with the tankage until time to apply 

 to the land and should be worked into the soil for best results." 



THE ANGORA GOAT. 



Experience of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The first problem we met was suitable fencing. We soon 

 found that while they do not jump they are good climbers, and 

 that they will go over any fence the top of which they can reach 

 with the fore feet. The horns on some of the ewes point back- 

 ward in a V shape. In the case of a woven wire fence with 

 square openings, even with 4 inch mesh, they will push their heads 

 through the openings and get hung by their horns. With this 

 kind of a fence it was necessary to visit them two or three times 

 a day to release the prisoners. The Ellwood poultry fence (not 

 poultry netting) of the American Fence Company, with small 

 diamond shaped openings, has proven perfectly satisfactory. It 

 costs about a third more than the ordinary woven wire fence of 

 equal height. 



In 1901 we gave them too extensive a range and they did but 

 little clearing up. In May, 1902, six ewes, one buck and five kids 

 were put in an acre of young woodland of a mixed growth, most 

 of the trees three to six inches in diameter. There was quite a 

 thick growth of underbrush. The small underbrush of birch, 

 maple, hazel bush, etc., have been cleaned up so that where there 



