The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-03
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.


AnGorn Gonts should BE Bred in the
south-PouItry Raising and Feed
ing Ground Hometown to supply
Humus to the sOiI-Other Farm
Matters.
H. p. M. Lowndes County.-If you
were to write to the American Sheep
Breeder of Chicago and procure the
January issue of that excellent stock
/ journal you would find a great deal
regarding the Angora goat. Much
more information than we possibly
! could give in our limited space regard
| ing it.
You would find the addresses of a
! great many breeders of that valuable
animal. For several years we have
been trying to create an interest in
! the Angora goat among the Georgia
| farmers, believing strongly that it
would be greatly to their interest to
introduce this valuable animal into
our section--South Georgia especially.
OF course it is expensive bringing
the animals from Iowa or Missouri or
| Texas. but a carload of selected ami
mails for breeding purposes, If brought
by the farmer on the spot, might not
cost an extravagant price. Cost what
| they may, IT would pay in the end, for
there is considerable demand for trios
| and dozens all over Georgia, and the
! man of sufficient means that would
put himself in the way of meeting this
demand, would certainly get his money
back many times over in the course
| of the next ten years.
| The Angora goat is certain to be
| bred extensively in the South after
a while. There are not many in Geor-
| gia now. for the reason that 1t has
| cost so much to procure a small herd
for starting the breeding of them,
| though they are being bred by the
thousands even now in the far West
We honestly believe there is nothing
! that promises more profit to the far
2. rners owning large bodies of land In
| Southern Georgia-from 200 to 5000
acres-than the introduction and breed
ing of these valuable ADMINISTRATORS
BILE for food and for wool.
There is no way out of it, they are
bound to be made a prominent fea-
| ture of Southern stock farming in the
| course of time. We have no doubt
there are thousands of young farmers
| in the South who will be found as old
| men realizing a splendid income from
the breeding of Angora goats. There
will be more money in them than In
sheep or beef cattle.
Any young farmer feeling any inter-
est in this subject would do we'll TO
send 10 cents and procure the January
| issue of the American Sheep Breeder
(Chicago), and thereby procure the in
| formation to be gained therefrom and
at the same time he might procure from
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, the pamphlet devoted ex-
clusivelv to the "Angora" goat, which
is sent free. From these sources he
can supply himself with all the infor-
nation needed for beginning the prop
agation of an animal that is found in
the years to come to add vastly to
the wealth of the South. rendering her
pine barrens, now yielding very little,
a splendid source of income to the en-
ergetic discriminating farmer. 1t
needs no prophetic KEN to draw a
picture of South Georgia twenty-five
years from now being vast sheep
ranch-not just one but thousands I'M
der separate ownership and with a
happy homestead to each. And there
will be hundreds. if not thousands of
goat ranches, too, to give variety to
the industry of stock raising, that has
created so much wealth for the West
ern herder.
The South Atlantic farmer will have
the advantage of handy sea ports for
shipping his products to Europe, that
will allow him profits that the West
ern grower never had.
Well may the economist wonder why
the Southern farmer or landowner con-
tinues to neglect the most glorious OPP
portunity that ever presented itself to
any body of farmers that ever existed
in any country. OF course we know
1t is chiefly the lack of capital that
stands in the way of Selling the golden
opportunity. But capital like Carne-
gie's and Flaglers and the like will
see its opportunity after awhile and
instead of building libraries and the
like, will open the way for developing
a great industry that must lie dormant
until idle capital grasps the idea that
it might be better employed for the
, public veal in substituting certain
forms of industry that individual cap
ital cannot put underway by itself.
How greatly the South is in need OF
capital to encourage and back up hei
; reasonable ventures in broadening hel
Agrarian development