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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ANGORA GOATS. 
A Connecticut Breeder Talks. 
C. M. C., asks on page 635: “Do goats 
pay as well as sheep for meat, wool 
(meaning hair), care, feed, and amount 
of increase?” In regard to meat the de¬ 
mand is very light, because the public 
has a strange objection to eating goat 
meat as goat meat, but serve it up as 
Spring lamb, as I have often done my¬ 
self, and the encomiums bestowed upon 
that particular lamb were most embar¬ 
rassing, and when my guests were told 
that lamb was goat their surprise knew 
no bounds. After that experiment I had 
no trouble to sell them goat meat In 
the South and West there is a good 
and steady demand for goat meat, and 
if the dealers who send the meat East 
would label it as goat meat instead of 
lamb a market would soon be created for 
it in the East. The meat is finer and 
more juicy, and the flavor is much like 
venison. In regard to the “wool,” it is 
hair, and as mohair it enters very large¬ 
ly into manufactures of various kinds. 
Tingue, of Connecticut, alone consumes 
150,000 pounds per year. They bought 
nune and paid me not less than 30 cents 
per pound, and expressed the desire to 
buy more. When a man gets 18 cents 
per pound for wool he is apt to be satis¬ 
fied; it is a very poor goat that will not 
give over three pounds to the shearing. 
The “care”? All animals require some 
care, but according to my experience the 
Angora goat is the most independent, 
as it will subsist where other animals 
will starve. Of course the more intelli¬ 
gent care you give the better quality of 
hair, meat and kids you will get. I esti¬ 
mate after a careful record that in this 
climate, where there is plenty of brows¬ 
ing, the cost of feeding can be kept 
within $1 per head per annum. In re¬ 
gard to the increase, each well-bred doe 
will drop (in the North) one kid yearly, 
a half-bred often two. The Angora if 
left alone in fields over night, where 
there are plenty of ugly dogs, needs the 
protection of a good buck. I have seen 
a big mastiff laid out in 10 minutes by 
a small Angora buck. The Angora will 
not run from dogs as will sheep, but 
make common cause and fight to the 
finish. I have had a flock here in Con¬ 
necticut for the past year, and no dogs 
have ever troubled them. The next and 
last question is, “Are they as liable to 
ticks or lice as sheep?” No, if many 
are huddled in very small, damp quar¬ 
ters I have no doubt but one would find 
them with lice; I have never had any 
trouble with mine. They are almost 
immune from all diseases; sometimes 
putting them in a pasture of sumac in 
fruit they will eat more than is good for 
them, and vomit a little, but that is all. 
Now upon the most important point 
of all your correspondent has not 
touched, and that is keeping down the 
weeds and at the same time fertilizing 
the land. Here is their greatest value. 
I have cleared up land overgrown with 
brush and weed that would have cost 
me many dollars and months of time; 
they cleared out wild mustard, carrot, 
milkweed, brier, sumac, etc., and the 
land that was good for nothing has been 
reclaimed and is now being put down to 
grass, all in one year’s time. I have 
been a close student of the Angora goat 
for the past 20 years, in the Southwest, 
but only a year in this locality. It is 
my firm conviction that the Angora goat 
has come to stay, and not only redeem 
the abandoned farms of New England, 
but become a powerful factor in the 
bank account of the discouraged farmer 
I would add that while the United 
States Government has not yet indorsed 
registering of the stock, on the ground 
that there is nothing upon which to base 
such a registry, there will soon be a 
recognized registry upon merit alone. 
The attitude of the Turkish government 
in forbidding the exporting of the An¬ 
gora from its domains on the penalty of 
death, and the forbidding by this Gov¬ 
ernment of the bringing of any from 
the Cape on account of disease, all tend 
to put the breeders of America on their 
mettle to retain their best stock and 
breed very carefully. 
Connecticut. e. erskine hahn. 
A Maine Man's Opinion. 
Our experience with Angora goats is 
that they will live almost entirely in the 
Summer upon weeds and bushes, and in 
Winter it is better to feed coarsest hay, 
because they prefer the leaves and weeds 
in such hay to the best quality of Tim¬ 
othy or Red-top that we can furnish 
them, so that the expense of maintaining 
them either in Summer or Winter, is 
very small. There are probably thou¬ 
sands of farmers in the United States 
who would maki a larger profit in keep¬ 
ing Angora goats than they would in 
keeping sheep, not taking into account 
the fact that their pastures would be 
much benefited by being cleared of 
every kind of underbrush that grows. 
Although Angoras will not flee from 
dogs as sheep do, but turn and face 
them, we have lost as many goats as 
sheep by dogs. Hungry dogs are more 
than a match for a flock of goats. It is 
important to dip them if they are to be 
kept free from vermin. 
Portland, Me. j. henry rin~es. 
HIGH OR LOW HORSE FEEDING. 
It is not good to feed horses hay in 
high mangers or racks. They are like¬ 
ly to get dust and hayseed in their eye3 
and become blind. A horse will carry 
its head as high whether eating hay 
from low or high mangers. I am speak¬ 
ing from experience, e. f. kleinmeyer. 
Wilton Junction, la. 
Our experience over a space of 40 
years has told us that to make a horse 
carry his head up he must be fed hay 
out of racks that are high. We tried 
feeding them on the ground, but it had 
the wrong effect. j. a. truman. 
Bushnell, Ill. 
I believe it to be much the better prac¬ 
tice to feed horses from the ground. It 
is Nature’s way, and while man can de¬ 
velop and improve Nature’s methods, he 
cannot alter them without cause for re¬ 
gret. In picking up his feed from the 
ground the horse exercises the muscles 
of the leg, shoulder and neck. While it 
doubtless has some good effect upon the 
carriage of the horse, the chief benefit 
is in strengthening the leg. This methon 
is necessary for the proper development 
of the colt, and is very advantageous to 
the older horse. One reason why city 
horses so often show bad knees and legs 
is because they never get this natural 
exercise, they are reined up, fed “up,” 
and never get into that position which 
under natural conditions they would oc¬ 
cupy about half the time. They thus fall 
an easy prey to the roads, which are un¬ 
naturally hard. This method is not 
quite as convenient as the one most gen¬ 
erally practiced and for this reason the 
horse suffers. samuel b. woods. 
Charlottesville, Va. 
A Mighty Hen. —I have a Black Java 
hen that has laid 80 double eggs in 90 
days; 160 eggs in 90 days, as each egg 
weighed as much as two common ones. 
I have two perfect chicks from one of 
these eggs, both cockerels. 1 have had 
the hen and cockerels on exhibition at 
our Erie County Fair, September 8-12, 
with the 160 (as I call it) and 56 singles, 
making 216 eggs in a year this hen has 
laid. w. c. t. 
Alden, N. Y. 
Pure White Cattle. 
In the number for August 16, this 
year, was an inquiry (page 571) about 
“White Cattle.” The “White Farm” of 
England, which probably started the 
craze, is the Earl of Abingdon’s, Oxford¬ 
shire, England. This farm was started 
by Lady Abingdon, about 1883. The 
present Earl, some years ago, was keep¬ 
ing it up and augmenting its white 
curios. Of course if one wrote to the 
Earl’s steward, enclosing stamped en¬ 
velope, he would get an answer about it. 
The steward or secretary of a nobleman 
farmer is sure to be obliging about farm 
matters, especially to an American cor¬ 
respondent. n. l. w. 
Pearl River, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Of course the stamp on the 
envelope must be English. We have re¬ 
ceived several letters from readers who 
say they have pure white cattle for sale. 
Most of those offered appear to be Hol- 
steins. 
Ego Record.— For last six days: 84 eggs 
from 23 hens, including cripples, voters and 
pensioners. h. s. 
Connecticut. 
Up-Headed I-Iorses.— With more than 30 
years’ experience with large numbers of 
stallions, mares and fillies of all the differ¬ 
ent breeds, including both coach and road 
horses, we find the medium-height manger 
profitable; that is, hay placed in the 
manger of such height that the animals of 
different ages can partake of It without 
a serious inconvenience or stretching of 
the neck either up or down. A good horse 
trainer will argue that a high-headed horse 
with arched neck comes with careful, kind 
and painstaking training, and we are in¬ 
clined to give him the larger part of the 
credit, always reserving part for breeding 
for these particular results. 
Keota, Iowa. c. f. singmaster. 
A Binary Mother.— Charles Halleck, in 
Forest and Stream, tells this story: "It is 
a case of two well-favored fowls, a White 
Leghorn and a Plymouth Rock, who ‘stole 
a nest’ together one day last July, and 
after the customary period of patient in¬ 
cubation came off with a lone, diminutive 
white chick as the sole product of nine 
fresh-laid eggs duly sat on. Whereupon 
a cordial agreement was established all 
around which three continuous weeks have 
failed to break, but rather seemed to 
strengthen. The brace of ‘biddies’ cluck 
and scratch together like a working team, 
and brood together as far as they can, for 
whichever hen gathers in the chick, the 
other nestles alongside quite contented, 
and the bantling slips from under the one 
to the other just as if it were one com¬ 
mon canopy of feathers. The mutual so¬ 
licitude is marvelous to behold. The Sia¬ 
mese twins were not in closer accord, for 
what attracts or frightens one affects the 
other, and the chick conforms to both, 
running two ways at once as far as it can, 
and when both hens happen to scratch a 
bug or worm coincidently, the chick is 
heroic in its attempts to do double duty. 
Notwithstanding this dual maternity, and 
this joint commissariat, and conserving 
care, the runt is hardly larger now at the 
end of three weeks than it was when it 
burst the natal shell.” 
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