Show N ti c yf f l THE GOATS i G Government Will vim Hire Hungry Angoras An An- t goras Boras to Build Fire G Guards ards in x Forests of California Washington Feb Three 8 thong thons and aud an angora ora goats herded out ant on th the e brush covered brush covered of California r. r r 1 aro going aro-going going to do some hard work for Uncle Sam during the coming two r f years beginning this spring The experiment experiment ex ex- will be r unique both as a astock stock raising proposition and aud as an engineering and tree culture problem The little white hite animals whose long wool is of such great value are going to bo put pat to no less a task than constructing con constructing constructing con con- mile after utile mule of fire lino Jine through the bushy bush growth 1 in the National Forests saving much mach labor by tho the United States Forest Service engineers and making way f for tor forestation b by merchantable trees Not the less important feature of the experiment w which ich for th the first two years will be confined to the Lassen Forest Is the tho fact that the task will be performed during the x regu regular ar grazing by tho the goats which will not even realize they are aro doing work wort 7 Plans Pians for or ca carrying trying on tho ho work t are aret t ou outlined in a operative co agreement t. t tf dr drawn viD up by the Forest Service and aud l the tM owner O of band a-band a of angora goats s grazing on th the Laasen Lassen National Nation l Forest For For- ForI I est eat of f California The scheme is t to torun torun run fire lines ines parallel with the c contour contour con con- n tour of the slopes by by cutting trails trails about tb u eighty rods apart apart These se trails are to serve as gui guides es for the angoras r r They will graze in each direction from the trails killing itis ibis estimated 1 a strip of br brash jah sh about 30 3 yards wide j. j Tho The wide lands cut ou out and grazed by bythe bythe the goats will serve ai as id ideal al fire lines linos in protecting the forest fores covered lands f lying beyond and around the chaparral chapar chapar- ral sal areas and aIs also make maro a place for reproduction of merchantable trees tree |