The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-24
AndOra Goats.

By most persons, goats are c0nsid-
cred an intOlerable nuisance, whose
sole redeeming quality seems to be the
ease with which they are bred, and
the small quantity of food necessary
to keep them in good condition. In
fact, we have read in some of our agri-
cultural exchanges of tloclIs, whose
sole diet consisted of old fruit cans,
joints of old stove pipe, plug tobacco
and other articles equally indigestible.
We cannot, of course, vouch for the
entire truth of the latter statement
consequently, we give the story for
what it is worth. Knowing the value
the citizens of New Orleans attach to
everything relating to the goat inter
est, and DESTROYS Of placing our latest
researches before them, we addressed
letter to u correspondent living i'll
Mississippi, who has thoroughly inves-
tigated the whole business, and who
gives his experience to the readers OF
the Times as follows:
VERONA, LEE CO., Miss.
To the Agricultural Editor OF the Times
was the first boy that found out a pup
never opens its eyes at nine days. Now, am
81 and see many men never get their eyes
open enough to see the truth, If they pass
three score and twenty. They know moth
ing within themselves, but are led about
without a bit, by the "say's SOS" and
"read's sos" of daddy Col. Somebody, my
paper, my preacher, etc
All my early life | saw the angora goat
pufed as sure gold mine one fellow in
illinois imported from Germany nine head
ut cost of 81 800 for one billy, and 81, 200
each for eight ewes. Some paper published
that Queen Victoria Cashmere shawl cost
ST 900, and ever since, even down to the
modern present, there have not been Lack
ing those that puff nuisanCcs, simply for
moneys sake. OF the most modern are
Retus, of Georgia, and Philips, of Kentucky
and Mississippi, besides other lesser lights.
The Cashmere or AngOra goat Is most
cussed take in: he Is as handsome
as woman ; the kids look as sweet
as fat. clean, well formed babies their
cOuntcnances are innocent, mild and viz
tuOus-lOoking; their long, white, clean,
glistening robes look so fine and are so soft
and slick, that they naturally swindle any
intellect. The more refined, the more eN-
tensive the intellect, the more cultivated
the taste the worse the the fool goes up ;
and there he stays, until, by experience, he
learns the error of his ways; then, generally,
he says "There are more fools than |, and
| will puff the cheat until get my money
back; then will have 10 more to do with
goats, Cashmere or otherwise" Then, his
eye teeth are cut and they stay cut and
stick. for they turn to lifetime wisdom
teeth, and never yet have you found man
with a herd, gang or few Of them, after he
got clear of the first crop. They will jump
houses, climb trees, crawl through fences,
eat through hedges and ransack under
growth and kitchen to thciyC, for they are
both carnivcrOus and Omnivcrous. for they
will eat every thing, cotton and calico,
tobacco and gOurd vines not excepted:
they are most enormous dcyourerS and
gIuttons, nothing of their size eat so much;
peck of peas, corn, rice, or potatoes, is
not uncommon for their maWs to contain,
still they never fatten in proportion to
what they cat. It's true, like Bcecher's
poor labOrcr. they can live on bread and
water with the enormous quantities they
steal from honest labor. In breed, blood,
pedigree and degree, they are II constant
cheat, for no man can tell Il flll-blOOd from
sevcn-cighth without a hair barometer,
aud no certainty then, either in the instru-
mcnt or the professed expert who uses it,
for you may feed three-quarter on null
berries entirely, and his fleece, wool or
hair will be as fine as his old original
pure-bred fabUlOus-priced daddy's. They
are Il cursed humbug and cheat, first and
last, in the present, future, and long ago
past. They never were intended for honest
civilization, but were made to keep wild
forests from becoming too dense, eating
out all manner of bush and shrub out of
the savages' paths so they could success
fully pursue better game.
JOSEPH A. LEIGH, NJ. ID.