Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

and cleanliness so that the price has been
Kept down where II might easily go up.
Probably the price of heeces quoted IN
ante-bellum stories OF AnEoras In this
country referred to PSALM" the forehead
curl of the goat, of which each animal pro-
duces only about two ounces. This hair IL
worth 81 to 81 a pound and Is used in the
manufacture OF the expensive and far
famed Paisley shawls. For ordinary pur-
poses mohatr is used for dress goods.
pushes and rugs. One of the objections to
its use In dresses is that while II is rather
expensive II is practically indestructible.
and a garment made of II goes out OF
fashion long before It can be worn out.
There is a good sized flock OF Angoras
one of the estates Of the Duke of West
minister, and the old duke always had the
for his own use and for giving to his
friends. They were highly priced garments,
but always outlasted the fashions
Drawbacks of Kemp.
There are now at least three mohair mills
in this country. They manufacture cloth
and rugs, but motsly pulsh, such as is used
in car upholstery and for other purposes.
One of the greatest drawbacks that the
manufacturers complain of In the American
mohair is the presence of kemp" a short
hair that grows close to the skin under the
long fleece and which will not take the
mohair dyes. Consequently IL any Of IL
gets into the plush every hair shows white
after the piece is dyed and IL IL is a high
grade plush the kemp has TO be buried
out by hand, long and costly job The
breeders are working to produce n goat as
free possible from this Objectionable hair,
but up to date they have not succeeded.
1t is one of the results of crossing high
grade Angoras on the common white goat
for the sake of a quick increase In the flock.
But it is a practice that does not pay.
1t may be satisfaction to patriotic Amer
leans to know. however. that we can and do
a
imported from Turkey. At the last Kansas
City show one OF the mohair manufacturers
exhibited two pieces of plush, identical in
weave and dye One was made from high
grade imported mohair and the other from
American fleece. The best experts could
not tell them apart, and neither could the
owner without the aid of private mark
on one piece.
Cleaners of Brush Land.
But aside from the value of the Angora in
meat and mohair, he has proved a most val
liable acquisition in the United States as a
destroyer of brushwood. A flock of the
goats turned in to the worst brush land will
shave IT clean as a razor, and behind
them spring up the native grasses, blue
grass and kindred sorts, so that they can
turn worthless piece of overgrown ground
into fine pasturage at no expense and more
than pay for their keep while they are doing
the work. Some of the letters to the De-
pdrtment OF agriculture snow now last ana
how well the goats do this sort of work.
DIR. Stadley of Platteville. Iowa, wrote the
department that he had turned a band of
200 Angoras into $40 acres of Undiscovered
land that the previous year had not paid
the taxes on it," The goats cleaned IL up
in one year as no force of men and grub
bling hoes could have done and 1t is now a
valuable pasture.
j. A. Moberly of Windsor Ill. wrote that
he was now getting $3.50 per month for
pasturing cattle on a piece of land that his
goats had cleared for him, and which pre-
viously had not been worth penny to him.
The goats Will not eat grass as long as they
can get brush and twigs to browse on, and
so long as there is brush land for them to
clear they are much better contented to do
that work than to stay a good pasture
Breeders say, however, that the best An
CORA feeces are to be raised on grassland
while the brush clearing feature is merely
work at which they can be proftably en-
ployed If there is need for them II is GER
tain. however, that they have already in
creased thousands of acres, hundreds OF
thousands of dollars in value I'm the United
States, and there millions of acres
where they could still be profitaby en-
ployed
Angoras Need Care.
The above does not mean that Angora
goats can be raised for nothing, and that
they need no attention. They are a valu-
able adjunct on any farm, but they want