. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. worth of grade goats in those States of a cross between the Thibet goat, the Angora and the native goat. Such goats could not be bred up iu ten years, with good Angora bucks, to be Worth anything for fleece, hence you will daily meet men who will tell you iu that coun- try that the Angora is a humbug. They or their neighbors tried them, and paid fabulous prices for them, and failed. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, has a small band of pure breed Angoras. I.
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. worth of grade goats in those States of a cross between the Thibet goat, the Angora and the native goat. Such goats could not be bred up iu ten years, with good Angora bucks, to be Worth anything for fleece, hence you will daily meet men who will tell you iu that coun- try that the Angora is a humbug. They or their neighbors tried them, and paid fabulous prices for them, and failed. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, has a small band of pure breed Angoras. I. S. Diehl, perhaps, has ten head; the remainder of his are grades. I could give their history. Robert S. Scott, of Kentucky, has one pure ewe; and three years increased two or three bucks; the balance are grades. Ogden, of Ohio, had one pair of pure breeds. Chenery, of Boston, sold a few pairs of pure breeds to go West, in 1HG7, that I failed to get the address of, but no lots of over one ewe in a place that I heard of, and I in- terrogated him very closely at the time; and up to that time I hiive a record of all the pure breed transactions in America. I assert pos- itively that the failure is not in the Angora goat, but in the deception and dishonest re- presentations made by men about the goat to persons who have no facilities to find out the truth. It is very true that they will not do so well any where east of the Rocky Moun- tains, as they do on the Pacific coast. Had they not jiroved to be a great source of profit to the breeder on this coast, they could never have been sjjread over the country, from the fact, that the word goal was unpopular, and attached to it was the history of all the Cash- mere swindles in the East, as they were termed. We even have men here now offer- ing grades as pure breeds in this state, and often deceive men with them, to the disgrace and injury of the ; It will be news to our readers in the States named to be told that the animals
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