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good food, production in some instances reaches six to 
eight quarts a day, but three to five quarts is more the 
rule. Goats are milked about six months and then are 
dried off. The production will run from 500 to 1,000 
quarts of milk during a lactation period. One ewe in 
Europe is reported to have produced 3,000 quarts during 
a single year. 
6. Cashmere goats.—At one time the making of cash- 
mere shawls was a great industry in Cashmere. That 
old industry, however, has 
en lost some of its glory and 
; importance. These animals 
4) originally flourished in Cash- 
mere and Tibet. The wool 
i enables the goats to bear 
Re ee the severe cold of the moun- 
4 o ae aX i é , tainous climate of these re- 
fe gions, although only a pound 
to a pound and a half is 
sheared at a clip. These 
animals have a double coat—a covering of outer hair, 
long, fine, straight and stiff; and beneath this is the fine, 
soft and fleecy wool that has made the breed so famous. 
The goats are of medium size; they have rather large 
heads and pendent ears, and long spiral horns that curve 
obliquely backward. 
7. Angora goats.—These goats are natives of Asia 
Minor, and since their introduction have steadily grown 
in popularity. The bucks have long, flat, finely curved 
horns, but those of the ewes are smaller and simpler. In 
addition to their service in yielding a clip of valuable 
mohair, their flesh is more and more coming to be used 
for human food. It is often sold as mutton, and if the 
animals are properly fed and slaughtered while young, 
ANGORA GOAT 
