Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . in goating a field to cut all small saplings, that the goats may getat the branches. You may depend on him to keep down all Santley, of Iowa, who has had much experience with Angoras asland clearers, says: Land can be cleared of the worst brush known in thiscountry for a little less than nothing by employing Ango
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . in goating a field to cut all small saplings, that the goats may getat the branches. You may depend on him to keep down all Santley, of Iowa, who has had much experience with Angoras asland clearers, says: Land can be cleared of the worst brush known in thiscountry for a little less than nothing by employing Angora goats. Theywill pay you a profit and live on leaves and weeds, leaving the landcleaner than you oan get it by any other process. At the present BREEDIN© A:ND CARE «F SHEEP 1081 time I have over 600 acres that have been reclaimed by Angoras, and aconservative estimate would be that the value of the land had therebybeen enhanced at least $10 per acre. XXIX. Angoras in the United States. Of the 500,000 Angora goats in the Ujiited States, four-fifths are inthe Southwest, especially in California, New Mexico and Texas. Yetthere is not a state in the Union where they will not do well, as well assheep, and when we consider their vast superiority as money-makers over. AMERICAN MILK photoKraplied for this work. the sheep, it seems strange that shrewd live-stock men have not seen thehandwriting on the wall and gone more extensively into goat problem of pasturage in the West will have to be solved by thesheep men if they intend to remain in business, but the goat pasturageof the United States has not yet been touched. In the timbered regions of the South and the Southwest, and in thecut-over sections of the North, there are millions of acres of the finest 1062 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. goat pasture, not only free, but for which the goatman could get a pricefor clearing with his herds. All unimproved land is goat pasture. Andthis at
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