. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. bitter taste nor the offensive odor whichcharacterize that of the European goats. Grassbeing rare in their pasturage, their food con-sists chiefly of acorns and of a fruit called St. Johns bread. The butter and cheesemade from the milk of these goats is cele-brated for its excellence. The flocks of Palestine are sometimesdecimated by a contagious disease, a speciesof yellow fever, which often mows down sixtyper cent of them. The Arabs consider thisa punishment for their own sins, and blessAllah that he does not take the wholef
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. bitter taste nor the offensive odor whichcharacterize that of the European goats. Grassbeing rare in their pasturage, their food con-sists chiefly of acorns and of a fruit called St. Johns bread. The butter and cheesemade from the milk of these goats is cele-brated for its excellence. The flocks of Palestine are sometimesdecimated by a contagious disease, a speciesof yellow fever, which often mows down sixtyper cent of them. The Arabs consider thisa punishment for their own sins, and blessAllah that he does not take the wholeflock. The .Ynhian goat lives in Upper Egvpt,Nubia, and the mountains of Abyssinia. Ini860 the Negus of Abyssinia sent a younghippopotamus as a present to Napoleon III,and with it a number of these goats to serveas wet nurses. It is related that they each gavefrom fifteen to eighteen quarts of milk a day. 198 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS The Cas/itnere goat is found in Cashmere andin Tibet. It is not tall; it has a rather largehead and pendent ears. Its long, spiral horns. Ready to take out Baby curve obliquely backward. The outer hair islong, fine, straight, and stiff, but beneath it isthe extremely fine, soft, fleecy wool which hasmade this species of goat so famous. Thecolor of the outer hair is white, silvery, paleyellow, or light brown; the wool runs fromwhite to gray. This wool enables the animalto bear the severe cold of the mountains ofTibet. It is sheared in May or June ; the longhair is carefully separated from the brilliantand silky wool, of which each goat can supplyfrom one to one and one-half pounds. Forthe making of the third of a yard of a cash-mere shawl the wool of seven or eight goatsis needed. Under the rule of the GreatMogul forty thousand weavers of shawlsworked in Cashmere ; but after that countrywas made subject to the Afghans this fineindustry received a blow from which it hasnever recovered. The Angora goat, which is growing so popu-lar with us, comes from Asia
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