Show TAKEN GOAT CENSUS UNCLE SAM RECENTLY COUNTS A SOURCE OF WEALTH prom from the proud angora to the lowly common varieties which lord it over vacant city lots all have been enumerated uncle sam lias has counted his goats the tilling persons person of the united state had hat been paying attention ioa to them long before uncle sam did but they did nol spread quite the same u facts about them according Acco iding to them the goat Is really only a humorous object living lhing mostly on ash heaps and eating loose property such as shirts hung litin out to dry but uncle sam finds that his goats oats are extremely valuable alu able possessions of the united states his census men collected the figures from all the states and found to their amazement that there are almost two to millions of M goats oats in this countey are more than on farms oal more than of them are the beautiful angora goats but the rest which are just the plain ordinary common goat are not to be despised the value of all the goats on the farms Is estimated at being a i little littfe more than three and a quarter millions of dollars yet with laith all these goats goat in the coun kiy the united states still imports all of its goat skins from other lands this is not due to the fact that tho the business worth ha having haing ing for last year the imports of goat skins amounted to twenty five millions of dollars but the fact appears to be that the goat herders and the goat skin makers of other countries demand so little money ioney n and live so poorly that there is nothing in it for the american Americ mi farmer and he prefers to raise his goats for their hair as in the case of angoras angomas An goras ahil he lie uses the common goat to furnish milk and meat the twenty five million dollars worth of goat skins that are imported by uncle sam each year gives work to many strange races and draws on b goat oat herds from uruguay and aus tr sla to the white sea in russia and labrador in far northern canada on the oceanic peaks of the azores in the beautiful Ala madeira delra islands NN where b ere the days are all as dreams afar in an the wild country around the black sea high among the clouds of the swiss alps the herds are feeding today to day to furnish skins for the shoes and gloves and other wearing material of the boye and girls of the united states the soft velvety skin that forms your gloves today to day may have passed through adren adventures tures before it reached you that would make a story in the mr thrilling of story books pale the goat that bore it may have scampered over the tile barren plains of russia wita wolves at her heels A servian mountaineer may have driven her over the black mountain of his native land to save sane her from the turks turk an arab may have driven her through the pastures of the holy land even the himalayas distant though they be from civilization fed and sheltered goats to furnish american am C rica n e cloth loth 1 ing the fierce men of tripoli escorted long caravans across the burning african lands to bring the goat skins safe to port they might be shipped in new york and boston on some rusty battered tramp 14 teamer that has poked her ugly and prosaic nose into all the lands of romance |