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€xperience of the Danes, have accrued therefrom. Moreover, the fact that the 
rocess is calculated to destroy most, if not all, the pathogenic bacteria has not 
een without its influence in a country where the care of the public health is 
made a matter of considerable concern. 
ANGORA GOATS. 
We live in hopes of some day interesting farmers who own hilly, stony, 
Serubby country in the subject of Angora goats. We have given them a fund 
of information about these valuable animals ; but, beyond half-a-dozen inquiries, 
little interest has as yet been aroused in them. One man puts all his eggs into 
the wheat basket, another into the corn and potato basket, whilst a third will 
have nothing to do with anything but lucerne, yet keeps no sheep, and does not 
rear lambs for the home market. England is crying out for cotton. The 
English papers publish articles in which they impress on Queensland the 
advantage of growing cotton. Sisal hemp, grown here like a weed, fetches from 
£23 to £25 per ton in the British market, thriving on soil that will only grow 
stringy-bark trees and lantana, but not ten farmers grow sisal hemp. Here is 
an extract from the report of the Kansas Agricultural Society on Angora 
goats :—“ They are a profitable animal in the feed lot ; give them like conditions 
and the same amount of grain, they will take on flesh very rapidly, and fatten 
in one-fourth less time than the sheep. They respond very quickly to good 
care. At the final test of all domestic animals—the butcher’s block—the 
Angora goat is not found wanting. Their flesh in summer, when browsing, has 
a very delightful flavour, between venison and mutton, which gives the name 
“venison ’ to their meat. Being a browser, like the deer, it is right that it 
should assume the name of its meat. In winter, when fattened on grain, it 
loses that flavour, but acquires a mutton flavour. 1t has none of that ‘woolly ’ 
taste of mutton, which is so objectionable to many people. Thousands of them 
are killed in all our packing-houses, and. sold as ‘well-dressed mutton.’ Only 
an expert can tell the difference, as their carcasses appear the same when 
dressed and hanging in the meat market. They will dress out a larger per 
cent. of meat than sheep; hence it is that they are much more valuable. Its 
meat is more juicy than mutton, and a finer flavour. ‘Then you know what you 
are eating is absolutely healthy and free from disease. ‘Thus we find a new and. 
profitable animal for the farm, which will thrive and fatten on that which curses 
the land, and it will take its place among the leading industries of the country.” 
DRIVING V. LEADING PIGS. 
A correspondent of the Scottish Harmer furnishes pig-drovers with a new 
idea. Instead of driving pigs, lead them. This is his experience :-— 
“ A cloud of dust in the distance. It rose as if from a smoking fire. As 
you came nearer a horse between the shafts of a dray could be seen, and then 
the dray itself, the wheels helping to create some of the smother we were 
approaching. A bit of hard road intervened, and the wind coming up swept 
to the east the heavy cloud, and then the cause came to view: hundreds of pigs 
in all sizes of fatness rolled, pushed, screamed, squealed, grunted, and struggled 
to reach the tail of the dray. Every now and then one, two, or three, never 
more, stopped, arched their backs, and brought their snouts with a jerk to the 
ground. No driver was at the rear, and yet this great mob of squealers pressed 
steadily onward. We passed alongside, and turned to look for the cause, for 
the driver of the dray appeared a modern version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 
and there from beneath the tailboard of the dray trickled slowly, methodically, a 
broken stream of maize. My companion laughed ; I roared, and then on we went 
along a track marked by the thousand footmarks of these latter-day votaries 
of the worship of the donkey and-his bunch of carrots. We had learned a new 
way of driving pigs—lead them, and it’s ‘amaizingly’ easy.” 
