12 ANGORA GOAT IN UNITED STATES. 
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said to command the market, though they are exposed to the 
conipetition, amongst others, of an English firm with works. 
in Russia, who are said to dispose annually of machines 
largely of this character to the value of £165,000. 
America occupies the first place in the supply of reaping 
and binding machines, though the market is limited by the 
popularity of a mowing-machine of native manufacture, of 
which about 25,000 are turned out annually at prices varying 
from £12 10s. to £17 10s. The trade in steam-threshing- 
machines is reported to be entirely in the hands of England, 
while implements required in vine growing are chiefly of 
French manufacture There is no demand for dairy 
machinery, as the dairying industry is but little developed in 
South Russia. 
It ajypears that the greatest dithculty met with in the agri- 
cultural machinery trade is the granting of long credit, but 
quite go per cent. of all sales are conducted on this basis, 
and the majority of the present population could not buy 
otherwise. 

THE ANGORA GOAT IN THE UNITED STATES. 
The United States has recently published a bulletin on the 
Angora goat, with a view of supplying information regarding 
the breeding and keeping ef that animal for the production 
of mohair, an industry which has, it appears, recently been 
attracting some attention in the United States. The Angora 
goat has been bred in that country to a small extent for 
many years past, the first importation of pure-bred goats 
from the district of Angora having taken place in 1849. 
No exact figures of the number at present existing are 
available, but the Department of Agriculture estimates that 
there were about 400,000 Angora goats of all grades in the 
United States in 1900. Texas, California and New Mexico, 
with Oregon and Nevada, appear to be the districts in which 
they are principally distributed. In order to ascertain the 
