. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. are washed bythe manufacturers of the cloth. At the heightof the wool production in Spain, when greatquantities were exported to foreign countries(in 1796 these exports amounted to twelvemillion pounds), the king of Spain derived vastsums from an export tax. In the year justmentioned it amounted to $1,496,000. Formerly the fleece was pulled from thebody of the animal at the molting or shed-ding season. The custom still prevails in Ice-land and in some other European countries;but the present method, especially with us,is to sh
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. are washed bythe manufacturers of the cloth. At the heightof the wool production in Spain, when greatquantities were exported to foreign countries(in 1796 these exports amounted to twelvemillion pounds), the king of Spain derived vastsums from an export tax. In the year justmentioned it amounted to $1,496,000. Formerly the fleece was pulled from thebody of the animal at the molting or shed-ding season. The custom still prevails in Ice-land and in some other European countries;but the present method, especially with us,is to shear with a machine, operated either byhand or power, that cuts the wool with perfectregularity, docs not wound the sheep, andreduces the time necessar_\ to shear one ani-mal from half an hour to ten minutes andeven less. VITHE GOAT I. In Ancient Times The goat even more than the sheep is theinhabitant of mountains. This animal, closelyrelated to the sheep, the antelope, and thedeer, likes warmth and dryness, and is mostat its ease in central Asia, the Himalayas,. A Dutch Goat and other mountains of the torrid zone, where,in fact, we find its cradle, whence it has spreadthrough Europe, and, to some extent, throughAmerica. It has prospered in the countriesbordering on the Mediterranean, — in northernAfrica and southern Europe,—and severalislands in that sea derive their name from Corsica the number of goats is estimated at ninety thousand. Malta gives its name toa special race. But Greece and her islandscan boast of more than the rest of Europe,possessing one hundred and twenty for everyhundred of the population, while France,Germany, and Austria have only from fourto five, the UnitedStates three, and Rus-sia only two for everyhundred of their inhab-itants. According tothe most trustworthycalculations there areabout twenty millions ofgoats in Europe. Thereare nearly two millionsin the United States. The goat has been adomestic animal fromtime immemorial. Likethe sheep,
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