Show L ANGORA GOAT RAISING QUITE profitable 0 angora buck back and does spared Tre pared by the unite citurs states depart M ment ent ot of Agri agriculture th the raising of angora ansom goats la in the united stat states e a ia is now a demonstrated success the industry Is indell so no well established here that gr growers oviers need not be inconvenienced by the ac aln of at south africa in prohibiting the exportation of angomas angoras An goras goram for the quantity of good blood in this cantry Is already sufficient to meet all re quire ments in the opinion of experts the this beet best american fleeces now equal any grown in south africa or asia minor the original borne home of the an gora gors although nearly every state in the union now possesses esses ita its flocks the southwest and the northwest are ea specially pec lally ally well adapted to the indus try in particular the large areas recently lorg borgil lor gil rl ott off in the northwest there the angora not only thrives bint himself self but helps to clear away the brush which if it allowed to grow unchecked ed might easily become a dangerous fire trap thus it la Is often said I 1 tat the angora works and pays for I 1 lit ts board at the same time it Is paying more and more tor for the value of the fleece or mohair Is increasing er steadily etea dlly formerly the use et of mohair depended so largely upon the prevailing fashion that its price varied widely from year to year this condition however is rapidly abang i us mg as new uses for mohair are con titu ritually ally hjad from automobile tops and nd table cover covers to dress goods and curled carted false hair and today the grower la is assured of a reasonably steady market the price of course varies ith the quality the very best fleeces bringing on ao an average from forty two to fifty five cents a pound the weight of a fleece baa has a very wide range bat in 1809 1909 the average for ore oro oa LA L A found bo be 3 37 7 pounds and tor for texas 1 85 on account of the creater greater beat however and the dam ige age of shedding in the southwest octh west are frequently shorn twice i a year a fact which must be taken into consideration in all calculations this practise of clipping twice a fw year Is in many ways a drawback to the InCus industry try binco since it tends to lower the average grade of american mohair Aloha fr as good as any can be and ts is grown in this country but the average quality la in not today conald ered to be as good as the foreign about two 1 pounds are annual ly 17 imported this Is in blend i ed 04 and spun with jhb domestic plod act six inches is the shortest length of fleece usually desired ava ao because of hearing twice a year much tr V so ft ind new mexico mohair falls belo this standard chere here the fleece is al at lowed to grow for 12 months the aver age ge length la Is ten inches and in the i best florka it is not unusual to get st fit teen to twenty inches homco romeo the i sweepstakes buck back at the el paso enow show in 1910 1110 la Is an example of what ie to possible ilia 1 floece weighed 18 pounds measured 20 inches in length and sold for such fleece Is I 1 not lot of course the product of or denary commercial conditions it im pile plies a considerable amount of care and nd personal attention the birth rate ix Is approximately as per cent but in well managed flocks this thi has risen on occasions as high 28 per cent since the kids are not cot hardy it Is to obvious that I 1 this his i meins means kill and industry during the breeding season the management of i angora doe does not differ ditter greatly from that of cheep while the neof goat needs atten on it Is la ads Adin table and as far as an tern tem Pera ture la Is concerned should flourish I 1 in any part of the united states in montana tAna tho the flocks face the heavy f no walls with equanimity aa w long as I 1 a dry place is a provided tor for them at I 1 night ight and though the heat beat in the rOu southwest thweat frequently makes it necea 1 aary to shear twice a year la in order to prevent shedding it does not oth affect the health of the flocks dampness however is more injurious than that either cold or beat beal high land Is i the native home of all goats and they I 1 invariably variably seek it when 1 att aft to them thern elves pure water is also an essential otherwise the angora la is not lar r it will feed wah caiti and cheep id d though in some danger of being kicked eked with horse horses also Asa As a matter of fact however the goat prefer prefers a er Or tata amount of rough pasture and 10 particularly happy when cleaning RD P brush land there is in one instance of a it flock of being allowed free ing in a california forest reserve order to keep the strips of cleared t land known to etro breaks tree free froni from ewi and vegetation settler settlers in the find the angora most Ti I ceable ta browsing off the tho brush on their new lands and one Inte ban railway company purchased a cock flock to keep its right ot at way clear clea und attractive on very rough bald thu tho danger of injury to the fleece must however b be kept in mind As baa has already feea said the an gora gom can be bred pure for practical purpose purposes from the stock nl at ready in thie thin country and there Is to no need ot at further importation importations tor I 1 0 r breeding burp sea mea some yeara years ago however athis thit WM waa not believed to alpo 1 the case and in 1881 the sultan of turkey endeavored to preserve for hta his dominions the moio monopoly poly of the mob lir trade by prohibiting the exportation of the live animal ilia example was as fol followed loed by south africa but it was wall too late some of at the beet beat blood was already in america and today other countries are buying of ui us flocks bay hav ing been chipped recently to brazil a and the argentine various associations have already been formed for the development of the industry in this country and the quantity of the annual product is in creasing rapidly la in 1913 it Is esti mated that 5 pounds of mohair were grown groan in the united states fu fuller ier details of the management and care of socks flocks are to be found in farmers bulletin the angora got goat which will be trie fro on api td I catlon cation to the depa emerl of agrical ture |