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QUES770NS ABOUT GOATS. 
I have just read with interest your article on goats, page 797, 
and would like to ask a few questions. What breed would you 
recommend for “meat and mohair?’’ Where can they be had? 
Will they eat and eradicate horse nettle? Is there a ready sale 
for their meat? E, A. P. 
Pennsylvania. 
Ans. — The Angora is the best breed of goats to keep for 
mohair and meat. The fleece usually pays for all the trouble and 
cost of keeping them. The does bear twins, and the annual in- 
crease is about clear profit. There is need of close attention to 
them at kidding time, for the does are not very faithful mothers 
at first. They should at such time be kept in an enclosure where 
they can be seen frequently by the attendant, who must see that 
each doe owns her kids and suckles them for a few days. Then 
they may be turned out to browse with the common herd. The 
meat is excellent and as good as lamb, for which it is often sold 
in the dressed form, so I have been told by meat dealers. I have 
eaten it frequently and know that the flavor is delicious. I think 
it resembles young venison. Goats will eat about every weed that 
grows, and I think they like the “horse nettle,” although I am 
not sure of it. There are many who have goats for sale, both 
East and West, and they advertise in some of the rural papers. 
The Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, D. C., may be 
able to direct those wanting goats to the right places to buy them. 
Any common breed of goats will destroy weeds as well as the 
Angora, but they pay the best because of the mohair. — Rural New 
Yorker. 
TUBERCULOSIS AND LEVERED CALVES. 
Erom Henry County, Ky., come letters telling that dairy cows 
tested for tuberculosis have since failed to drop calves, or in the 
few exceptional cases, the calves dropped were weaklings that 
died within a few hours. The same bulls were used as .in pre- 
vious 3 cears when the cows were reliable calf producers. This 
report is based on the experience of a half dozen farmers with 
an aggregate of something like 25 cows. Is the explanation to 
be found in the testing, or in the material used, or is it just a freak 
of nature? IMorton Watkins. \ 
Tuberculin could not possibly cause the results mentioned. It 
is perfectly harmless to an animal that is not afifected with tuber- 
culosis. The trouble mentioned merely is incidental, and apt to 
happen at any time, and especially when cows happen to become 
infected with the germs of contagious abortion. A few cases arc 
