The Forrest City times., 1901-06-21
FARMER DPLANTER.
ANGORAS AS A BUSINESS.
A Few Scraps of Information for Those Interested in Angora
 Coat Raising.

could be expected, for instance, if one hundred or one thousand dollars are invested, etc. For a rough, nrushy country, know of no better plan 10 get a rcmunerative investment estab- lished than to stock the range with Angoras. In all cases it pays best to start in business of any kind in the right way. Of course, it depends in the first place on the amount of money you wish to invest and on the amount of land you have, and if you have your land already inclosed with a wolf proof fence; or if you do not want to inclose your land and have your Angoras in charge of herder; or, if you want to keep them in a wolf proof pasture; or, if you want to keep only small number without herder and without inclosed pasture. In the last named manner few grad ed Angora goats arc kept by good many people, mostly for meat and for the mohair, used in the family and perhaps for a few neighbors. There appears to be no other animal so well adapted to be home pet or home appurtenance as the Angora goat. Everything on the place appears to consider the Angora goat it's friend and companion. Without the Angora the society Of the farm animals is missing one of it's main and foremost members. Every man, woman and child is attracted to and delighted oy the noble appearance of these beauti- ful animals, and they really are too pretty to be killed for meat. Where they run loose around home without being herded and without being kept in pasture, and where they always stay near home, and where they al- awys come home at night, or rather before night, there they are raised cheaper than chickens, for they live on food that no other animal would eat. A little salt about twice week is all they need. If kept in large fiocks, however, it may sometimes in the winter be necessary to feed a day or two, when snow or sleet is on the bushes and herbs.
 In reply to several letters received with last mail, wish to say that the money invested in the Angora goat industry will bring fully as much as if invested in good cattle or good sheep, and you have the advantage with the Angora goats that you need no valu- able range, and that the goats will i'm prove the range for other stock, and that you can clear out all the undergrowth on your land with out expense, and that you soon can have your land in shape for putting in cultivation. All you should do is to let the goats first clear out the thickets as high as they can reach and then cut the larger brush and small trees about half in two ton the upper side) and bend down the same so the goats can reach it all. In this way the tall brush and young trees will be growing out new leaves again for IS months or two years and then die completely, and rot out, so you can blow the land. This may look unrea- sonable, but it is true. Some of your readers ask for the exact amount of income they could count on with cer- tainty, if they invest any certain amount of money. To all such ques- tions I wish to reply that the best way to get valuable information in any kind of business is to get prac- tical experience! I know many men who are getting along splendidly Gin this world of hard trials) who have gone to work themselves at the kinds of industry in which they succeeded and stayed at it, with energy and en- durance until they knew how," and then they could employ others to work for them, and earn enough for themselves and their hired men or renters. The only road to success be- gins with the 4, B, c of the business or industry in which it deals, and practical experience is it's foundation. We could, however, set an example as to what can be done with a small investment. A few days ago I re- turned from trip to look at some goats and l saw several fiocks. Near ly all of the owners had commenced with only a very few, and in few years they had raised nice bunch, and in all cases they are so well PiS"SIo "itn tnciT SOdtS lNdt It IS hard to buy any goats at reasonable figures. I will start out again soon, and give more exact particulars of various cases in which goat men suc- ceeded or had bad luck, however the case may be. According to my ex- perlence you may invest any amount of money in common goats and An gora bucks and get plenty of suitable range for them, where you keep the wolves from killing your kids, and you can make your invested money bring you several hundred per cent. in a few years. l hope that none of your readers will try to go into the An gora goat industry before fixing for It, by building a wolf-proof fence around the land on which they want their goats to stay, until they want to move them to another portion of land that they want to clear and inn