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Show Profit of Goats. Robert W. Scott, of Faanklin county, Ky., writes to the Observer and Reporter (Lexington) (Lex-ington) a long letter in regard to goat-raising goat-raising in that State. In its course he says : 1 have a flock of nearly 200 head of Cashmere or Angora goats, produced by crossing the pure bred Angora bucks with the native or common females, fe-males, now deep enough in the blood to produce wool long enough to be shorn and Manufactured, This flock has cost me almost nothing ; the sales which have been made and the meat and skins of the males and jrethers from time to time in the course of its production, having remunerated all expenses. ex-penses. I have recently received the account of the sale of my goats' wool at 85 cents per pound. To produce this wool cost me no more per pound than to produce the wool of my "improved "im-proved Kentucky" sheep, and yet 37 cents per pound was the best offer I could get for my sheep's wool in Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Both the goat's wool and the sheep's wool were shorn alike, and one produced 85 cents tjud the other 37 cents per pound. |