The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-12-08
THE CASHMERE GOAT.
Manufactures of its Fleece into FIRING


The Louisville Comisr-Jolraal says there
is party in this city that has manufactured
from the Cashmere goats fleece very
superior article of fringe for trimming
ladies' winter suits. From this expert
ment, it is demonstrated that the Cashmere
goats fleece will yield a larger profit than
any other fibre now used in making ladies'
apparel. One pound of fleece will make
eighteen yards of fringe that now sells at
one dollar and fifty cents per yard retail.
This will produce or yield twenty-seyen
dollars. Deduct three dollars per pound
for weaving, and you have S24 for the pound
of fleece.
These facts can be established by calling
on any of the lace or fringe merchants on
Fourth or Market street in this city.
A full blooded eve, when grown, will
yield four ponds of wool or mohair in one
fleece. Allow one pound for wastage, and
work up the other three, and the yield will
be seventy-two dollars beside the fleece
the eve will produce kid, worth seventy
two dollars, which gives you an income Of
one hundred and forty-four dollars per year
from one goat. This is no fancy sketch or
statement, but facts are abundant in this
city and county to sustain the above esti-
mates. The day is near at hand when the
hills of Kentucky will be covered with
flocks of Cashmere goats, numbering thou
sands and thousands. By them mans
wealth will be secured. All we want now
is wool or to have enough to justify the
putting up of machinery for the manufac-
turing of this material in the various facto-
ries now in use. Damask for covei ing car
seats is now being extensively used, made
from the wool or mohar, plush carpets and
blankets. besides the finer fabrics of ladies'
wear.
The following is letter of Mr.. Robert
w. Scott to the Frankfort Yeopsda.
Editor Yeonan--Allow me to invite your
attention to a small lot of Cashmere buggy
robes, and door and carriage mats, which
have left for sale with the Messrs. Rodman,
and the Messrs. Waggener, of Frankfort,
lately received from the mandatory in the
city of New York, made of the pelts or
skins sent to them by myself, and produced
on my farm.
Strongly impressed with the superior
beauty, durability and variety of "mohar"
OF goats wool over all other textile mate
rails, | was confident, some years since,
that the production and manufacture of it
would become, at no very distant day, one
of the largest and most lucrative Industries
in the United States. With this view,
| began to raise the Cashmere or Ango-
RI goat about nine years since, and
have sold several clips Of their wool
E in New York at paying prices, my
object being rather to demonstrate
their practical value than to sell
the animals as breeders. The pelts of
these animals Tor their skins with the wool
on them are not the least of their numerous
and valuable products. When tanned or
dressed and colored, they make the most
beautiful and comfortable robes for sleighs,
or mats for carriages, doors, &c. | have
found it was very easy heretofore to give
away number of pelts for these purposes /;
but this is the first time that /, or any
other person has put lot Of them into this
market; though imported ones are not UNI
common in the Eastern cities, where the
robe sell at $50 to 80, and the mats at SO
to 80 each.
The cost of dressing and coloring skin
does not exceed $l.50 each; and, assuming
the average salable value of the raw skins
at s. each, for those of / to 1916 blood,
and the keeping of eight of the goats to an
acre of land besides their feeding on fodder