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CASHMERE EWE. 
That they are not the “Thibet Shawl Goat,’’ is proven 
by their total dissimilarity to a specimen of that breed in 
possession of the subscriber ; the latter variety having 
only an under coating of a few ounces — which portion of 
its fleece is alone valuable. 
"Works on Natural Science show that they are not the 
common Angora Goat of the Province of that name, in 
Asiatic Turkey, as that animal is of varied color, with a 
fieece of indifferent value. 
Tliey have become known as “Cashmere Goats,'"’ from 
the pure white color and fineness of their fleeces, and 
their undoubted Eastern origin, having been characterized 
by America’s celebrated Naturalist, the Rev. Jno. Bach- 
man, D. D., as “ the most valuable variety that can be in- 
troduced into our country.” 
The animals on exhibition consist of ; 
No. 1. A pure bi’ed buck kid, yeaned 20thFeb'y last. 
No. 2. do. do. do. 18th IMay do. 
No. 3. do. do. do. 20th do. do. 
No. 4. A buck kid, yeaned 23d May last, 7-8 Cash- 
mere, 1-8 Common, showing the third cross of the Cash- 
mere on the native goats of the country. 
No. 5. A buck kid, yeaned 22d May last, 3-4 Cashmere 
1-4 Common, showing the second cross. 
No. 6. A yearling ewe, half breed Cashmere, showing 
the first cross. The mother of this specimen being a com- 
mon blue goat. 
The fleeces of the matured bucks weigh six to seven 
pounds. Ewes yield from three to four pounds. The 
flesh of the crosses is superior to most mutton, tender 
and delicious, making them a desirable acquisition to our 
food-producing animals. 
The ease with which they are kept, living as they do on 
weeds, briars, browse, and other coarse herbage, fits them 
for many portions of our country where sheep could not 
be sustained to advantage ; whilst their ‘ability and dis- 
position to defend themselves from the attacks of dogs, 
evidence a value peculiar to this race of animals. 
They are free from all diseases to which sheep are liable, 
hardy and prolific ; and experience has proven that they 
readily adapt themselves to all portions of the United 
Sta'es. RtcHARD Peters, Atlanta, Ga. 
"WATER RAM. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have a branch lying 
some eighty-five feet lower than my house, and can ob- 
tain a fall of about ten or twelve feet to operate on a ram, 
and would be obliged if you or some of ymur correspon- 
dents could give me some data by which I can know what 
proportion of the stream can be driven to that height by 
such a fall. 
If any friend lias a water ram in operation within a con- 
venient distance of this place- to visit, I should be glad to 
have the information. Garnett Andrews. 
Washington, Ga., Sept., 1850. 
The proper study of mankind is man— one of the 
most difficult is woman. 
Bear this in Mind. — Every man can be really great 
if he will only trust to his own thoughts, and say his 
own say. The stupidest fellow, if he would but reveal 
with child like honesty what he feels and thinks when the 
stars wink at him, when he sees the ocean for the first 
time ; when music comes over the water, or when he and 
his beloved look into each other's eyes — would he but 
reveal this, the world would hail him as a genius in his 
way, and would prefer his story to all the epics that were 
ever written, from Komf.r to Scott. 
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