Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-01-06
ANGORAS IN THE OZARKS.

The Goat Room Reopened In Nils.
souri-Fine Yenison nnd Good MIX.
Within the last two years the num-
Der of Angora goats in Missouri has
doubled. and company of st. Louis
capitalists has just reopened the An
CORA goat boom by the purchase Of
$4,000. which it is placing on an 5000
acre ranch near the town of Cuba,
says the New York Tribune, which is
authority for the following: Soon the
traveller through the Ozark region may
expect to find thousands of these an
imals clambering over the rocky hill
sides and disporting themselves in the
wide sweeps of valleys that lie be-
tween the ranges. There are at pres
ent 10000 Angora goats in the state,
aud most of these are found in the
Ozark region. A great deal of this billy
land is unfit for the pasturing of cat
tie. and it makes fine field for the
Angora. This animal takes delight
in living ON shrubbery and under
growth such us the ordinary steer
would sniff over in disdain. In this
way the goat not only lives upon veg
citation that other stock pass over, but
he acts as a forerunner of the axman,
clearing the forest and increasing the
price of land in Missouri.
Some OF the Herds.
Most of the goats in Missouri are at
present on ranches in Pulaski, Taney,
Stone. Ozark and Greene counties. with
the high hills for their habitat and
broad acres of timber land for their
browsing. Here they thrive and multi
ply, making money for the men who
own them. In Greene county, near
Springfield. is a herd of 1,S00 Angoras
belonging to George A. Ramsey and +.
d. Oughterbaugh. In Taney county +.
II. Gross owns 500. The st. Louis Goat
company has purchased about oO,OOO
goats, its buyer still being in Mexico,
and these are to be located in Cuba.
A number of farmers own small herds,
while there are several other ranches
equally as large as the one near Spring
field
MissOuri's Climate Like Turkeys.
There is great profit to be realized
in the goat industry. The climate of
Missouri is similar to that of Turkey,
from whence came the original AnSora.
The rolling country and steep bluffs af-
ford him u reminder of his native
heath, and that is why the animals do
SO well in the Ozark country. 1t is like
home to them. Goat breeders and rails
ers have found one principal objection
to goat raising in the United States
that the animals take cold so easily and
die so rapidly when Il disease strikes
tie herd With the growth of the An
cora goat industry in Missouri there
have been few fatalities among the
goat kind. and the climate seems to
agree with them entirely.
Flesh and Fluid.
Angoras can be purchased ut the av-
erage rate of 81 apiece. The flesh OF
the Angora is esteemed rs food. 1t
sells readily ut beef and pork prices.
The flesh of the Angora tastes like ven
ison and is even superior to mutton. 1t
is sold both in st. Louis and Kansas
City, and u slaughter house for goats
IS soon to be established in Kansas
City. There is also q good market for
goats milk, the supply being made
Iuate in ST. Louis, where goat dairy
has gained reputation among mothers
rs furnishing stimulating food for
themselves and their babies. a goats
milk dairy also exists i'll Kansas City.
He Still Believes In Ben Davis.
Writing from the Arkansas valley. w.
F. Crowley says: The fruit and farm
nopors aa 81 and west are raising Il great |