Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
AND PLANTER.
ANGORAS AS A BUSINESS.
A Few scraps of Information for
Those Interested In Angorn
Goat Raising.


/ have been asked for information
constantly about Angoras, how to
care for them and how much income
pould be expected, for instance, II one
hundred or one thousand dollars are
invested, etc. For rough, brushy
country, l know of no better plan TO
get rcmunerative investment estab-
lished than to stock the range with
Angoras. In all cases it pays best 10
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
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 q
wolf proof pasture; or, if you want
to keep only small number without
herder and without inclosed pasture.
In the last named manner n few grad
ed Angora goats are kept by good
many people, mostly for meat and for
the mohair, used III the family and
perhaps for 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 its friend
and companion. Without the Angora
the society of the farm animals Is
missing one of its main and foremost
members! Every man. woman and
child is attracted to and delighted by
the noble appearance of these beauti'
full animals, and they really are toe
pretty to be killed for meat. Where
they run loose around home without
being herded and without being kept
in a 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 weel
Is all they need. If kept in large
flocks, however, it may sometimes il
the winter he necessary to feed {
day or two, when snow or sleet is OF
the bushes and herbs.
In reply to several letters l received
with last mail, | wish to say that thu
money invested in the Angora goa
industry will bring fully as much as j
invested in good cattle or good sheep
and you have the advantage with tn,
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 al
the underground on your land with
out expense, and that you soon cal
have your land in shape for putting
in cultivation. All you should do is t.
let the goats first clear out tn
thickets as high as they can reach an
then cut the larger brush and SINAI
trees about half in two ton the uppe
side) and bend down the same so tn
goats can reach it all. In this way tn
tall brush and young trees will b
growing out new leaves again for /
months or two years and then di
completely, and rot out, so you ca
pillow the land. This may look unrea
sonable but Il is true. Some of you
readers ask for the exact amount O
income they could count on with Gel
tainty, if they invest any certai
amount of money. TO all such que,
tions / wish to reply that the hes
way TO get valuable information
any kind of business is to get pra,
, teal experience! | know many me
who are getting along splendidly ii
this world of hard trials who hay
gone to work themselves at the kind
of industry in which they succeede
and stayed at it, with energy and Ell
durance until they "knew how" an
then they could employ others I
work for them, and earn enough fl
themselves and their hired men {
, renters. The only road to success b
[ gins with the A, b, G of the busine.
or industry in which il deals, an
practical experience is its foundation
We could, however, set an examp
as to what can be done with u sma
investment. A few days ago | +
, turned from trip to look at son
goats and i saw several flocks. Nea
> | lu oil nf thn I,oI
7 with only II very few, and in fe
years they had raised nice bunc
: and in all cases they are so we
pleased with their goats that it
hard to buy any goats at reasonab
figures. | will start out again 500
r and give more exact particulars
various cases in which goat men su
t ceeded or had bad luck, however Il
case may be. According to my e
{ perience you may invest any amour
!. of money in common goats and A
CORA bucks and get plenty of suitab
range for them, where you keep Il
wolves from killing your kids. and v,
can make your invested money bril-
!, you several hundred per cent. in q fe
years. l hope that none of yo,
readers will try to go into the A
CORA goat industry before fixing f
it, by building wolf-proof fen
around the land on which they wa
their goats to stay, until they wa
to move them to another portion
land that they want to clear and il
q prove for cattle or other stock
n I. Fuchs, in Texas Farm and Ranch
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