. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. n the animal isyoung, but uneatable when old on account ofits horrible odor. The skins were used to carrydrinking water by the migratory tribes of theEast; they were also used for clothing, a practicestill continued by the Kirghiz of central skin of goats is used in our day forthe manufacture of kid for gloves, morocco,shagreen, and other fine leathers, and also for 190 THE GOAT 191 parchment. The United States especiallyuses these skins in manufactures, importingannually not less than twenty-five millicjn dol-lars wo
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. n the animal isyoung, but uneatable when old on account ofits horrible odor. The skins were used to carrydrinking water by the migratory tribes of theEast; they were also used for clothing, a practicestill continued by the Kirghiz of central skin of goats is used in our day forthe manufacture of kid for gloves, morocco,shagreen, and other fine leathers, and also for 190 THE GOAT 191 parchment. The United States especiallyuses these skins in manufactures, importingannually not less than twenty-five millicjn dol-lars worth. The hair of goats is also vcr\useful for the manufacture of brushes of allkinds, as well as for hats; in Eastern countriesit is used in the manufacture of shawls, and cows milk so dangerous to children and tosick or feeble persons. Throughout Europeand America cattle are much infected withtuberculosis, which makes great ravages amongmen, whereas it may be said never to appearamong goats. It is an established fact thatwhile the milk of cows may convey disease. mohair is obtained from the fleece of the An-gora goats of Turkey. II. It is well to give a few details concerningthe chief product of the goat in Europe, — itsmilk, which is very nourishing on account of thegreat quantity of fat and albumen which it con-tains, and also because it is easy to digest, andcomes from an animal species little subject todisease, having especially great strength of re-sistance to tuberculosis, a disease whicli makes f -Vuliiiiatii m unless boiled or pasteurized, the milk of goatspresents no such danger, and is c\-en a passivepreservative against tuberculosis through theabsence of the bacillus thereof; which doesnot mean, however, that it is an active pre-servative. It is much to be desired thatexperiments should be made in this movement has lalclx been started in theUnited States for the raising of Angora goatsin the foothills of , California, Arizona,and Ore
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