The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-12

lMiuhIAllOS OF afElCAS hUaIs ~ 'ih-
GISIA--A NEW ASb PROMISING MANuFAC-
ton (Del) papers that there arrived In that
city n few days ago fourteen goats from
Africa, imported by PuScr, Scott & Co.,
morocco manufacturers. Fifteen were or
dered, and that number were shipped from
Cape Town; Cape of Good Hope, on The 2Gth
of january One, however, died OF the pas
cage. The others reached Boston in good
condition after Il run OF sixty days. Of the
fourteen sixare young geldings, which will be
retained by members of the firm Of Pusey.
Scott Co. as domestic pets. The remaining
eight--four males and four femalcs--were
ordered by, and will be forwarded to, Mr..
John III. bryant, Of Richmond.
Mr.. Bryant hj,s farm called keswick,
about eight miles above Richmond, on which
nc has already large number of American
goats, which nc is Keeping for breeding pllr-
poses. 1t il his design TO spclire Il cross lr
tween the African and American varieties.
The Cape Town goats ;lre fine, large animals,
and two OF the bucks in the lot of which we
have spoken are splendid specimens of the
variety. Tie fruit Of the cross must needs
he great improvement upon the common
goat.
in movement of great Importance TO Amcri-
can morocco manufacturers, and particularly
to the manufacturing interests of Virginia.
The number of goats slaughtered to furnish
skins to the morocco manufacturers of this
country alone is very large, and the whole
world is ransacked for the purpose. We
quote the following, showing the importance
Of the enterprise now in embryo, from the
Wilmington EUeyV Ereaiug:
1.-The largest skins come from Southern
Africa, but by far the greater number are
imported from Asia the great port of ship
mcnt being Calcutta: Immense numbers Of
skins are also imported from South America
and the island of Curacoa, on the coast of that
continent, while quite large number come
from Mexico, on our own continent. The
latter are the best, as they arrive at the f;cto-
ries in the freshest condition, the African and
Asiaic skins being of course quite hard and
dry when they arrive here.
"Thc number of goat skins used III the
United States is enormous. y careful cal
culatiun shows that three thousand eight hun-
GrcG and t,ccnty-tr0 goals are slaughtered
erc,'y 0ny to supply the present demand OF
the factories CT Wilmington alone, while all
our factories running at their fullest capacity
,ls2 -four thousand two hundred skiu> day.
Nearly onc-tiith of all the morocco manuiac-
turcd III the United States is made here, 30
the whole number of skins used i'll the couH-
try is something over five times this number,
and the number is constantly increasing as
The statistics Of importation show. In 1868
the number imported was l ,G35, ,4S0; 1860,
=, 1GS, $40; in 1870, 3,G5i 800, and in 1871,
about 100000. 1t will thus be seen that
there is little danger that the supply will cN'
ceed the demand and the only question is
whether the goats can he raised chcapyenougll
here to kill them for their skins. Those in
tSrested arc quite convinced that they can
and their figures seem to demonstrate the
truth Of their conviction.
"One great advantage will be that much
M,Stufgc now of little use can be utilized
in this way, and il strikes Us that it will tend
to make mountain land much mere profit.
able Another decided advantage is that the
skins will make Letter morocco, as they can
lie sent to the factories while yet green. This
has heen fully proven already; for PuSey,
Scott 4 CO. have recently tanned some skins
of domestic goats from Mr.. Bryant's farm,
aud they consider the morocco some of the
finest they have ever made.
'rhe goats are hardy and need but little
c,rc. The part Of Africa from which those
lust imported came is in about the same latl-
tuda south rs Virginia is north latitude
The goats there are largely raised by sheep.
herdcrS. who mix Il certain proportion ol
goats With their llocks OF sheep for TIC pro-
lection of the latter from stampede. \ he
E at will kill iacltal with about H. mlcl
dispatch rs ritlcman would, and when they
do retreat before larger animals they ara
much less panic-strickcn, and the sheep
gather around them"