Evening star., 1901-07-18
REARING OF ANGORA GOATS
PROPOSED EXPERIMENT IN NEARBY
MARYLAND COUNTY.
Efforts of Mr.. Albert Fairfax to Es-
tablfsh His Right to Eng
lfsh Title.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| COLLEGE PARK. Md, July IS, 1901.
The National Angora Goat Company, in
| which, it is stated, several wealthy men are
! interested, has purchased tract of 400
| acres Of farm land near Cedarville, in this
| county, for 81, 900 and proposes to engage
| in the raising of Angora goats on an eX-
| tended scale. The purpose of the COM
| pany is to stock the farm with a large
| flock of the goats, 5000 in number, it is
| understood, soon practicable. The
climate of Maryland is said to be favorable
| to the development Of the Angora goat,
| and those who have engaged in the enter
| prise anticipate gratifying results.
| Official reports of the success attending
| tries other than that to which it is ma
| tive encouraged the formation of the Ma
| tional Angora Goat Company, after con-
siderable investigation. Originally the An
CORA goat hailed from Angora, in Asia
Minor, but in the sixties of the last CEN
| tury attention was drawn to it as a pro-
ducer of a superior hair that might be
grown in other climes, and number were
! exported to the Cape of Good Hope, where
| they fourished. From that time to the
present they have gradually spread, and
a number of important flocks now to
be found in the United States where they
SEEM to have produced excellent results.
The goat has two coats of hair-one a
long one. The long coat is highly priced
| for the superior quality of cloth manufac-
tured from it, one variety being the we'll
known mohair. The under and shorter
| coat is of little value. Angoras are con-
| sidered by many the best of all goats for
| eating purposes and in Asia Minor the
natives are said to prefer it to mutton. 1t
! is said to be a poor milller in comparison
with other varieties of goat.
Claims to British Peerage.
| Information has reached here that Mr..
Albert Fairfax, soa of the late DR.. John
| Fairfax of Iceland, FRINGE Georges coun-
ty, but now a resident of New York, has
| taken steps to establish his claim that he
is by right a peer of Great Britain and
entitled to be called Lord Fairfax, Earl of
Culpeper, descended from Lord Fairfax,
fifth Of the title who came to America in
1722 and settled in Virginia.
The records show that the title ere
ated in 1927 and The fifth Lord of Fairfax
left his home and estates in Scotland in
1i22 for America, because he was dsap-
pointed in love and believed himself i'll
treated by the members of his family BY
an arrangement with the crown he secured
grant of land in what was then included
in Virginia, amounting to 100000 acres. On
this a palatial home for those days was
built, and Lord FairfaX became a power
In the colony. He was the friend of Wash
ington and employed the latter when a
n J
the Fairfax family was near to Mount Yer
non and was a gathering place for the
gentry of the time, maintaining reputa-
| tion for notable hospitality. Lord Fairfax
died without children, and his property was
inherited by his brother, William Fairfax
who married Sally Cary. This couple had
no children. and when William Fairfax died
Robert his younger brother, came into the
title and estate. From him the Fairfaxes
Of the United States are descended. Dur
ing the revolutionary war the title was
held by Rev. Bryan Fairfax, who was rec
tor of Christ's Church, Alexandria, of
which Washington was a vestryman. He
sympathZed with the colonies, was an in
innate friend Of Washington and
tributed generously from his private purse
toward the cause o. liberty.
From him was descended John Fairfax,
who was entitled to place in the. English
peerage, but did not care to claim it. He
LIVED i've, IN Washington, where previous to the
civil war he was in high professional re-
pute. On the outbreak of that struggle,
| however. his sympathies went to the south,
with the result that his practice as ply
Washington. He bought the farm in Mary
land near this place on which he spent
the remainder of his life In quiet pursuits
country gentleman of delightful per-
sonality, with ambition to herald him
self Earl of Culpeper. but eminently proud
Of being an American citizen.
1t is stated that Mr. Albert Fairfax has
prepared a petition to King Edward VII,
asking recognition as Lord Fairfax Of Cul-
peper and that abundant testimony has
been taken at the British embassy in Wash
ington to establish beyond question that
the claimant is descended from the Earls
of Culpeper. The name Of Mr.. Fairfax's
father is given in Burkes Peerage as the
eleventh Baron of Fairfax.
Effects of Gas Upon Grains.
The Maryland agricultural experiment
station. has issued a bulletin on the effect
of hydrocyanic acid gas upon grains and
other seeds, the result of experiments
made by DR.. Charles o. Townsend of the
staff. The necessity for the work, 1t is
stated, arose from the rapidly increasing
use of this gas in the destruction of in
sects infestil.s stored grains and other
seeds. 1t is further stated that since Dr.
Townsend began his experiments num-
Der of the largest flour mills in this coun-
try and Canada, as well as a large number
Of barns and granaries filled with grain
have been fumigated for the destruction of
insects without removing the thousands Of
| bushels Of grain stored in the buildings,
and inasmuch the grain thus fumigated
may be used either for seed for food 1t
is important to know whether or not the
terminating quality of the grain has been
injured and whether grain thus treated
would be injurious when used food.
The conclusion reached by DR.. Townsend
as well as other persons who experimental
| along the same lines. was that stored grain
and other seeds may be fumigated with
hydrocyanie acid Of required strength and
for sufficient time to insure the destruction
of insect pests without injury to the ger
minating quality Of the seeds and without
rendering them injurious as foods
DR.. Samuel S. Buckley Of the station has
prepared bulletin on the subject of pare
sis among cows. which, he says, is mani
tested by general paralysis and loss of
consciousness and which, with the excep-
tion of the germ diseases, is probably the
| most fatal malady known to cattle. The
bulletin gives detailed instructions regard
ing the treatment Of cattle affected with
the disease and asserts in cases where the
directions have been followed the cures
have aggregated over Sc per cent.
Shopping without Hats.
From the New York Sun.
Last weeks hot weather found several