Animal products; . p large flocks of goats, which in cha-racter are not unlike those of Thibet, with reddish grey hair ofgreat length, under which is a beautiful white hair of the finestdescription, from which the inhabitants of Urutupa manufac-ture shawls and scarfs as fine and as highly prized as those ofCashmere. Fine goats hair is produced in the Kirghiz steppes, and sells inKhiva and Bokhara at 28^. the cwt. Thirty years ago about 80tons of goats down, and about half that quantity of goats hair, usedto be annually shipped from Russia. Now only about 12 tons ofit are imported annually acro
Animal products; . p large flocks of goats, which in cha-racter are not unlike those of Thibet, with reddish grey hair ofgreat length, under which is a beautiful white hair of the finestdescription, from which the inhabitants of Urutupa manufac-ture shawls and scarfs as fine and as highly prized as those ofCashmere. Fine goats hair is produced in the Kirghiz steppes, and sells inKhiva and Bokhara at 28^. the cwt. Thirty years ago about 80tons of goats down, and about half that quantity of goats hair, usedto be annually shipped from Russia. Now only about 12 tons ofit are imported annually across the Orenburg frontier. Russia STATISTICS OF ANGORA GOATS. 53 exports the great mass to Europe; but a portion of it is manu-factured in Eastern Russia into socks, gloves, girdles, and shawlsof great variety and surprising brightness. The Angora goat is now successfully reared in South Africa, South Australia, Victoria, and other of the Australian colonies. There are nearly 1,000,000 in the Cape Colony, where they. ANGORA GOATS. were only introduced about ten or twelve years ago. As early as1848 they were imported into South Carolina, and have sincespread over many of the States of the Union, the original stockbeing surpassed in beauty and amount of hair or wool produced,which is partly due to the extreme care taken in breeding, andpartly to the colder winters on the North American Continent,which tends to increase the woolly covering of quadrupeds. 54 THE SHAWL-WOOL GOAT. Since 1870 a large number of pure bloods have been importedinto California, and they are now quite common throughout theStates and territories of the Pacific, where their number is esti-mated at about two millions, and it is doubling every year. Theythrive much better in the Pacific States than in the Northern andSouthern States. These animals are very prolific, and if well kepthave kids when only one year old. It is also said that the fleshof the Angora goat is far superior to that of the common goat,and ev
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