. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW. 27 AGRICULTURAL Turnip Patch at Herradura, the American Colony in Pinar del Rio Province. Un campo de nabos en Herradura, en la Provincia de Pinar del Rio. En este sitio se ha establecido vma colonia americana bastante numerosa, la cual se dedica al cultivo del citron y del tabaco, asi como en coscchar hortalizas frescas para el mercado de Nueva York. The Useful Goat. Rank weeds, sunflowers, cockleburs and such have spoiled for cultivation millions of acres. The chaparral smoth- ers all other vegetation in sections where origin
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW. 27 AGRICULTURAL Turnip Patch at Herradura, the American Colony in Pinar del Rio Province. Un campo de nabos en Herradura, en la Provincia de Pinar del Rio. En este sitio se ha establecido vma colonia americana bastante numerosa, la cual se dedica al cultivo del citron y del tabaco, asi como en coscchar hortalizas frescas para el mercado de Nueva York. The Useful Goat. Rank weeds, sunflowers, cockleburs and such have spoiled for cultivation millions of acres. The chaparral smoth- ers all other vegetation in sections where originally prairies abounded for hun- dreds of miles and were kept clean by oft recurring prairie fires. For all such the goat is found to be the savior. These lands would require from $12 to $20 to clear were men to do the work. The goat will do it for nothing. In fact, it will perform the task and in the meantime yield up abundant fleece, produce palatable goat "venison" and furnish a grade of milk that entirely outranks that of the cow. The goat is to-day actually harnessed to the task of eating up oak brush fields in Iowa, broom sedge wastes in Vir- ginia, cocklebur patches in Louisiana, sunflowers in Kansas, sagebrush in Ne- vada, lantana in Hawaii, chaparral and an unlimited miscellany everywhere. It is the Angora goat, the aristocrat of all the tribe, that is doing the work. As they go about devouring they will continue to give up the fleece that makes such dress goods as mohair, such com- mercially valuable material as the plush that covers the seats in all railway trains and such quaintly amusing articles as the wigs with which the members of the theatrical profession are wont to make sport.—N. Y. Tribune. The brush-eating instinct of the An- gora goat is being demonstrated on the Lassen National Forest in California, where they are cutting trails for fire guards through the brushy areas on the mountain slopes. The goats have been divided into two bands of 1,500
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