Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-10-29

dress goods, furniture plush, bralds
sbawls and other textiles, there is
short, low, cross-bred hair which IS
ade into blankets, laprobes, rugs ana
carpets. and even this coarser variety
is worth more than sheep WOOL me
mohair is also used as fur for trimming
Children's garments and for carrla5e
robes. The goatskins, too. are worth
from 50 to SO each for shoes and
gloves. Then there is the meat, which
epicures declare to be far superior 10
B'utton, and some go so far as to say
that its flavor is equal to that of venl-
son. Angora goat mutton sells IN the
markets for two or three cents per
round more than sheep mutton. There
is undoubtedly a prejudice against
scat meat, but in the case of the Ango-
ras such prejudice is without reason
The milk of the Angora goat is the
best in the world for infants, and it has
an additional value due to the fact that
the animal is not subject to tuberculo-
sis. The milk is also made into the
most salable cheese, such as Rogue
fort. Mot dor and LevrouX.
Are there no disadvantages in goat
raising? None that can be ascertain
ed The only expense, so far as can
he learned, is in furnishing food and
shelter for the goats in winter. But
even in this the goat is far less care
and expense than any of the other an
inlals, for the Angora browses out of
doors in all weathers and nibbles the
twigs and dry weeds which peep above
the snow, so that one need only add a
little grain c. hay to the daily diet
Climate does not affect the Angora
goat. He is equally happy in the boil
ing summer or where the thermometer
is 10 below zero.
The history of the introduction of
the Angora goat into this country isl
somewhat unique. In 1916 the sultan
of Turkey requested our government
to send to his country some one who
world instruct the Turks in the rails
ing of cotton. DR.. Davis of Columbia,
s. c.. was sent on the mission and
spent three years in Turkey. On his
return the sultan sent to DIR. Davis. as
an appreciation of his services, seven
Angora goats of the choicest breeds
These goats arrived in 1S49, and werd&
the only ones in this country at that
time. When people began to realize
the profits to be made in goat raising.
other Angoras were imported, until
the sultan, alarmed for his moha.r
trade, prohibited further expectation.
There are now some 100000 eoa.s in
the United States.
Good Angoras may be bough Tor SIO
each, but the best breeds are oftaa
worth hundreds of dollars Mrs Ar
mour who has an extensive goat farm
IN New Mexico, recently paid 81 $50 for
a buck which is thought to be the fin
est in America
The writer recently visited an Az
cora farm in Central Massachusetts.
There were some 300 goats in the
flock. One had only to watch them
playing about the pasture Or quietly
nibbling at the low bushes to be i'm
pressed with their decorative qualities.
The sight of a beautiful Angora, with
MS coat OF silky white hair, leaping
from bowlder to bowlder. carries one
back to Switzerland.
The Angora is not quite so large as,
full grown sheep. His fleece of long.
wavy mohair covers his body and legs
so that one can only see his four little
cIett hoofs peeping out beneath it.
The Angora is easily tanned, although
ar times the true goat nature will
crop out.