slightly, and the hocks rather close together. 
The whole of the hind quarters are small, as 
compared with the fore quarters, and are 
considerably higher. The coat is very fine 
and smooth, and the hair very hard in tex¬ 
ture. Toro weighs 00 pound*. 
Toro, although very forbidding in appear¬ 
ance, is exceedingly quiet and docile, and is 
possessed of great intelligence ; he retains all 
the peculiar attributes of the ancient British 
hull-dog—such as size, courage, &c. He will 
only pin an animal by the head, and when 
fighting is perfectly silent and utterly re¬ 
gardless of pain. He is rather slow in his 
movements, has a rolling kind of gait, and 
carries his head low. 
Finally, the enterprise is no experiment 
You say truly “ that the Angora Goat can 
be profitably raised in California, Admits of 
no doubt.’’ There is no room for doubt on 
this point, when the manager of El Rancho 
Guadalupe himself, (Mr. Landrum,) has suc¬ 
cessfully raised them in that. State for twelve 
years past. He being the pioneer Angora 
breeder on the Pacific Coast, may be pre¬ 
sumed to know whereof lie affirms in regard 
to the wonderful proliflcness, healthful ness 
and profitableness of this animal iu that lati¬ 
tude and favoring climate. And of liia integ¬ 
rity, good judgment, and fair mindedness 
there can be no doubt. 
I think 1 have now given you enough facts 
A SPANISH BULL-DOG. 
We give a portrait of a Spanish bull-dog. 
This breed, originally imported from En¬ 
gland, has for some centuries been bred and 
kept in Spain and in some of the surrounding 
islands, and from thence has found its way 
to Bordeaux and the Continent, tut has been 
very rarely brought into this country 5 in¬ 
deed, so scarce and highly-prized by the 
Spaniards are pure-bred ones, that it is a 
matter of considerable difficulty to obtain a 
ANGORA GOATS OF GUADALUPE. 
Hakhibon Guay Otis writes Forest and 
Stream.—The Guadalupe Island Company 
was incorporated under the laws of Califor¬ 
nia, January 25th, 1873, and at once com¬ 
menced act ive operations by putting on nm 
provements and shipping to the island a bund 
of fine Angora bucks to be used with the 
native ewes already there in breeding up 
future generations to a fleece-bearing stand 
aid. The number of common gnats on the 
OF A SFAFTT&tt HTJLL-HOG-. 
Toro, the name of the dog 
POBTRAIT 
to show the true state of the' case with 
regard to this goat paradise in the Pacific. 
island at the time of its purchase was ap¬ 
proximately, twenty' thousand. (’1 here weie 
some thirty-two thousand slaughtered on the 
island for their skins and tallow alone during 
the five years preceding its purchase by its 
present American owners.) Oue-half of this 
twenty thousand being males, are to be 
slaughtered in order to stop the propagation 
of tins non-lleeoe-breeding race, while the 
remaining ten thousand, being females, are 
not to be killed off, but utilized as breeders 
by crossing them with pure mid high-grade 
Angora bucks. The offspring of the third 
cross (seven-eighths Angora) is a fleeee-bear- 
ing animal. To these five thousand native 
ewes (being only one-half the entire number 
now on Guadalupe Island) have already been 
added more than one thousand pure and 
high-grade Angora ewes. A large number 
of Angora bucks have also been sent on since 
the first shipment last spring. 
It will thus be seen that this enterprise is 
organized upon no narrow or unsafe basis, 
Commencing on such a broad foundation, 
having a vast range, comprising more than 
1C6,00D acres of rich grazing grounds, afford- 
THE SHEEP OF WALES. 
I lived iii Worcestershire and Gloucester¬ 
shire, near the i-shire stone, England, and 
yearly saw many thousands of Welsh sheep 
pass on their way from Wales to Bucking¬ 
hamshire and elsewhere ; but those passing 
that way were white-faced. I had an l ncle 
who lived in the last named county whom I 
visited, and found these sheep in many farm¬ 
ers’ fields. Some bought ewes and sent fat 
lambs to London from them, the ewes being 
fattened after the lambs' were gone; and 
others bought wethers and sold them when 
fat, every particular in the account of Rad¬ 
nor sheep corresponding with those, weight 
and nil with the simple exception of the color 
of the face. The Radnor* went in another 
direction, but the white-faced are the most 
numerous in Wales. I bought some every 
year—the oldest wethers I could meet with, 
generally three years old—aud slaughtered 
one or two per week, as required, in the es¬ 
tablishment over which 1 presided as baiulr. 
This mutton was considered superior to any 
other, for 1 took pains to ha ve the sheep ripe 
to perfection when killed. Our regular 'look 
of sheep were Cotswolds, and too large for 
CATCHING TURTLE IN SOUTHEKN 
WATERS. 
This is the way catching turtle i* de¬ 
scribed You Bpy him from afar off floating 
in the undulating surface of the water some¬ 
times miles from the shore. Slowly, cau¬ 
tiously your boatman rows the skill' to the 
turtle ; the least clumsy splash of an oar 
would disturb his siesta. At last you get 
behind him, and inch by inch you approacn 
him. Then you stoop well over the bow, and 
turn your turtle. Ahem! Turn him . ^ 
seems easy enough to say “turn him, 
how do you do it * You bend down, l^mng 
far over the bow of the boat, make both 
... under his belly in the water 
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