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Show Angora Goats. The San Jose "Mercury" of September 16th says: Thomas Butterfield & Sou of Hollis-ter, Hollis-ter, on Thursday last, shipped twelve very Sdo Angora goats to Oregon. During the present season they have shipped about a thousand Angora grades to Oregon, besides supplying a large home demand. Next week they will send a car load of their best goats to the State fair. The success which these gentlemen have met with in breeding the Angora cannot but stimulate stimu-late others to follow their example. The mountain lands of the coast counties coun-ties are admirably adapted to the business. busi-ness. Here is a field of enterprise that, unlike wheat cuitui-e, oannot bo overdone. over-done. It is a specialty in which our farmers can engage without oomiDg in general competition with the productive produc-tive industry of the world. |