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Show COATS riD THE MOWING. In Two Summers the Browsers Cleared a Hillside of Brush and Briers. A flock of Angora goats were put nn a rocky hllh'de. that It was doslred to have cleared and gotten inrfj grass, says a writer In Counfry Llfo In America. It was such a tangle of brush and briers that it was difficult to make a way through it. Tho goats actually ate tholr way In until It was penetrated with path" In all directions. After tho leaves within with-in reach were eaten thoy would stand on their hind feet, with t1 elr forefeet In tho branches, and so eat tho leaves higher up, or, ,lf tho brush was not too lar.ge, would throw their weight against and bend It to, the ground, whero others would help strip It of its foliage. The leaves would come out again only to bo eaten off, then tho sprouts would co mo from the roots to sharo the samo fate, until at tho end of the second summor everytbHt; In tho shape of a bush not over e' fet tall, except the pln and lau'vl, was completely com-pletely killed, and white clover was beginning to appear. |