The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-13
EVANSVILLE, IND, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 49,
Amcrican Cashmere Goat.

There is a company in Sumner county,
Tennessee, engaged in the importation and
propagation of the cashmere goats, in.which
they have met with remarkable success
Many farmers in Tennessee and Kentucky
are purchasing some of the stock with the
view of making them a substitute for sheep.
R. c. Dickerson, near Bowling Green, KY,
has recently bought three of the goats for
the purpose of breeding from them. The
Bowling Green Gazette gives the following
interesting account of the animals and their
introduction into Tennessee
The average weight of the males is $50,
and that of the females 100 pounds. The
latter yield an annual fleece of Sand the form
err pounds. TIE Cashmere Company, who
are extensively engaged in breeding them,
sell their fleece at 50 80 per pound in New
York, whence it is geHeralls sent stosPaisley,
in Scotland, to be manufactured into those
much desired and costly articles of ladies
apparel called cashmere sliawls, which not
uHfrequently sell in the London market for
81, 600 to l,S00. Their wool or hair is
white, and exceedingly fine, silky and long,
measuring from ten to twelve inches
Their fleece is gathered semi-annually, and
is pulled instead of being shearcG as Sleeps
wool. They seem to be. perfectly docile,
healthy and well adapted 10 cur climate.
The history Of the introduction of these
goats into the United States would be an in
teresting subject for an article ofrrcater length
During the administration OF President Polk,
the Turkish government made application
for some one well acquainted with cotton
culture to make an experiment in cotton
growing III that country Dr. j. b. Davis
ot South Carolina,s was scenrcd, who resided
i'll the Turkish dolnini6nS for several years,
for the object before mentioned, and while.
there organized u company ana went into
the mountains and with the loss of some of
his men and several camelS, succeeded IN
capturing eleven, nine of which reached this
country III lS49, the other two having died
during the voyage. It-is said that no real
Thibet- $50 cqltle'l from the region ofcountry
in which they ahound1 has ever been sold
for less than 5 ,00o. They are readily
crossed with cur native goat, by using a
haH-blo buck the first year and breeding
females to buck of a higher grade than
themselves.
Mr.. Dickerson intends TO cross the real
Thibet or Cashmere, with the native goat
increasing the breed one grade every year
until he secures. what herdsmen call a full
blood, which can be done in few years.
We hope our farmers and wool-growers
will sustain Mr.. Diellerson in his efforts to
Introduce the Cashmere goat, which, we
think, if properly bred, will eventually su-
percede sheep as they are superior to them
in every respect. Dogs, we are told, rarely
ever molest them, and if they should, unlike
the sheep, they defend themselves; they are
well adapted to the climate, those captured
in the mountains of Turkey having been in
the country now about ten years, without
single death among them; they are easily
kept thriving upon weeds, briars, and every
thing grown i'll meadows or in woods, and
they are also said to be less liable to jump
than sheep, and their wool is far superior in
quality aud value.