. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 1072 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part tremely resembles sheep, but is far superior to them in alertness, sentiment, an
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 1072 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part tremely resembles sheep, but is far superior to them in alertness, sentiment, and intelli- gence. The goat approaches man without difficulty, is won by kindness, and capable of attachment. The extremely unpleasant odour attending these animals is supposed to be beneficial, and horses appear so much refreshed by it, that a goat is, on this account, often kept in tlie stables of the great. It is a singular local peculiarity, that in Angora only, the animals of the Capra, OVis, and 2-epus tribe, have long soft silky hair. 7332. The Angora goat, a native of Turkey, is chiefly valued for its exquisitely fine hair down, which grows under its coar.^e hair, and of wliich the Cashmere shawls are manufactured. The down is obtained by gently combing them. A considerable number of this breed were imported into France from Persia, in 1819, and stationed at St Omers, with a view to their increase, and the establishment of the shaw! manu- facture. The kids of this flock are said to be abundantly covered with down and hair, and saperior in strength and appearance to indigenous French kids of the same age. It is a common opinion, that the down of this goat degenerates when the animals are removed from the pasturage of Angora ; but this is likely in part to arise from the neglect of cleaning and washing them, which at Angora is so assiduously attended to. By a late Report of M, Terncaux to the Paris Agricultural Society, the French Angoras have inci-eased in number, and pr
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