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Points on Care and Breeding of Pheasants, etc. 



called mohair and also enters into the making of plush goods. The wool brings from twenty- 

 five cents to a dollar per pound and the average fleece of the pure bred angora is from four 

 to eight pounds. The shearing is done in early spring. Angoras are in their prime from two 

 to six years old. When an angora is killed its carcass also has its price in the meat market. 

 There is a growing demand for angora meat. The meat is rich and juicy and free from that 

 strong taste found in the common goat. 



FLOCK OF ANGORAS 

 Angora goats are very valuable for their mohair and skin, tough nature and live on most 

 anything, great brush destroyers and are reared same as common mutton. 



BOHEMIAN QUAIL SWISS CHAMOIS— From the Alps 



Hungarian Partridges — Continued from page 78 

 Partridge chicks commence to run just as soon as they leave the shell and are very whole- 

 some creatures. The parent birds take equal parts in the care and raising the young. The 

 cock bird guards and shelters them the same as the hen does and they generally rear all of the 

 brood. Young partridges live almost exclusively on insects and worms in their early age. 

 Later on they feed on small grains such as weed seeds, celery tops, apples, bugs, berries, etc., 

 they have a great preference to buckwheat fields, etc. 



