The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-03-30
Goat Raising on Loveland
Farm Has Been A Success
Much Land Has Been Clear
ed by the Animals during
the Past Season

| nL oPH@I OAoAJ
| in this country as they coulc
possible do anywhere. The goal
business is no longer an expert
ment for the owners have now
carried it through the expert
mental stage and have demon
strated that there is money in
the business.
The Loveland company now
have over five hundred of these
goats, an increase Of over two
hundred during the year and
half that they have been in this
country. The work of shearing
the goats has just been complet,
ed and, while the wool has not
yet been weighed, there will
perhaps be about a half ton OF
the fine fleece which will be
marketed. The work of shear
ing the goats is done with
gasoline engine shearing ma
chine and the .work took in all
about nine days.
What work the goats have &C.
complished in killing off the
brush can best be seen by a Wis
| it to the Loveland farm where
Mr.. Goodnough will be pleas.
ed to show their work and ex.
plain the animal.
The following letter from Mr..
w. A. Loveland, in response to a
letter from US asking for infor-
nation about the goats, gives a
good outline of their work in
this section. The following is
the letter:
|, March %, 1911.
Mr.. w. A. Robinson.
Editor of the Washburn Times,
Washburn, Wis.
Dear Sir
I am unable, at this time, to
give you all the information that
[ would like to, concerning our
Angora goats. 1t may, however,
be interesting to some Of the
readersof your paper, especially
those who know of the good
work of the goats, and what they
have done for us in the way of
clearing our land joining Wash
burn, to know why we bought
the goat. Our first idea was to
clear the farm of brush with
sheep. We purchased a few
sheep and worked them in the
brush one season, BY watching
them closely, we discovered that
they preferred the clover and
other grasses to brush, and they
eat but little of the brush, oc.
casionally they would pluck a
few leaves. Only in places
where there was no grass, would
the sheep work on the brush and
then they would not bark tie
trees.
I remembered of reading al
one time of the United States
Government officials discharg.
ing force of men that were
clearing a passage over some
mountain in the west, of brush,
and were at that time clearing
the passage with the Angora
goat. That the goat was doing
the work more thorough, killing
all the brush as they travelled
and at a much less expense, was
evident in the results obtained.
This gave US a. new idea and
then we began to look for the
goat to do the work on our farm
in Washburn. To find the goat
was no small undertaking, we
wrote to all the goat breeders in
the United States. I made
a trip to Kansas City,
Missouri to look at a car of goats
that were said to be full blooded
Angoras, but the first sight of
them showed that they were
coarse haired, Mexican rangers,
not what we wanted.
DIR. III. r. Mecrory of San
Marcial, New Mexico, heard of
our wanting goats, wrote to us
that he had just what we wanted
at Bendon. Michigan, that he
had bought a tract OF brush
land in that country and shipped
some OF his full blooded Angoras
to the land for the purpose of
clearing it of brush and was