St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-07-13
FARMER AND PLANTER.
ANGoRAS AS A BUSINESS.
A Few Scraps of Information for
Those interested i'm AnG0re
Goat Raising.

get a rcmuneTdlVe AuVcSeuOAo SSS.'
lished than to stock the range with
Angoras. In all cases it pays best 20
start in business of any kind in the
right way. OF course, it depends in
the first place on the amount or
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
wolf proof pasture; or, If you want
to keep only a small number without
herder and without inclosed pasture.
In the last named manner few grad
ed Angora goats are kept by a good
many people, mostly for meat and for
the mohair, used III the family and
perhaps for a few neighbors. There
appears to be no other animal so we'll
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 ana
child is attracted to and delighted by
the noble appearance of these beautl-
full animals, and they really are too
pretty to be killed for meat. Where
thew 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
flocks, however, it may sometimes in
the winter he necessary to feed a
day or two, when snow or sleet is on
the bushes and herbs.
In reply to several letters l 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 underground 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 ION 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
pillow 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 GER
sainty, if they invest any certain
amount of money. To all such ques
tions wish to reply that the best
way to get valuable information il
any kind of business is to get prac
teal experienced! know many mer
who are getting along sp]endidly Cir
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" ane
1 n{n r.
work for them, and earn enough fol
themselves and their hired men OF
renters. The only road to success be
gins with the A, B, G of the bushes:
or industry in which it deals, ane
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 1 saw several f1ocks. Near
~ all of the owners had commenced
with only very few, and in few
years they had raised nice bunch
and in all cases they are so wei
pleased with their goats that it i
hard to buy any goats at REASONABLE
figures. I will start out again soon
and give more exact particulars o
various cases in which goat men sue
ceeded or had bad luck, however tn
case may be. According to my ex
periehce you may invest any amour
of money in common goats and An
CORA bucks and get plenty of suitabl
range for them, where you keep tn
wolves from killing your kids, and yo7
can make your invested money brin,
you several hundred per cent. in few
years. I hope that none of you
readers will try to go into the An
CORA goat industry before fixing 70
it, by building wolf-proof fenc
around the land on which they wan
their goats to stay, until they wan
to move them to another portion o
land that they want to clear and i'm
prove for cattle or other stock.-H
T. Fuchs, in Texas Farm and Ranch.
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