The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-22


each the valuations being those in the
country from which exported to the
United States.
This statement fthe large value
$3.50, ,000.OO0) of goat skins imported
Iduring the last decade, together with
that indicating tina tthe number of
goats whic hthis $25O,O00,00O repres-
ents is approximately 500 million, is
extremely suggestive in conjunction
with a statement recently supplied to
the Bureau Of Manufactures Depart
ment OF Commerce aud Labor, by the
United States Consul at Vera Cruz,
Mexico, from which country large num-
Der sof these skins are imported, in
which he says that the meat of the
goat, whic his used as food and found
very similar to that of the sheep is
Of even greater value than that of the
hides, an dthat the goats are grown in
large numbers upon lands not avail
able for agricultural purposes. "The
dry plains Of Nuevo Leon" he adds,
with scant growth of brush, are able
to support large flocks of goats, though
these same plains will not produce
corn, cane, or grass, unless water is
supplied for irrigation. Mountain lands
and rough, broken sections of foothill
lands may be secured TO rabout 81
per acre, and each acre will in the
moist regions, support 10 goats
The steep mountain sides, the deep
gorges, the narrow valleys covered
everywhere with exuberant vegetation
afford congenial feeding grounds for
goats. The value Of the goat depends
upon three things: Meat, tallow, and
the skin. The matter Of fresh meat in
the farming districts of the hot coun-
try is greatly simplified by the breed
ing Of goats, an dthe flesh alone would
make IT a profitable industry"
The boye statemtn indicating that
large 4 editions to the meat supply Of
the United States may be grown upon
lands not available for general agri-
cultural purposes, together wit hthe
statement of the Bureau of Statistics
tina tthe skins Of SO million goats are
imported annually into the United
States, coupled with the further well
known fact tina the mea tof goats is
now being sold for food in the markets
OF many cities of the United States, Of
fers an interesting suggestion as to
the possibilities of large additions to
the meat supply fthe United States
and the retention at home of the %
million dollars per annum now being
sent out of the country for the pur-
chase of goat skins,
British India supplies about one
third th centre importations of goat
skins into the United States, that coun-
try having been credited with Is mil
lion skins out of total importation
OF 4S million in the fiscal year 1911.
The next largest importation OF that
year were 2-S million from China. 3
million from Mexico. . "a million from
Alden, Arabia, l-2 million from Eng
land, ] 10 million from British East
Africa million from Brazil, | 1-3 mill
lion from Argentine I million from
Venezuela, about million each from
France and Russia, and twothirds of
y million from Turkey IN Asia Con
siderable amounts are also imported
from Turkey Austrio-Hungary, Ger
many, Italy Peru. tho Dutch East IN
dies. and French Africa
The following statement, furnished
By the American Consul quoted above
and printed in the Daily Consular and
Trade Report ythe Bureau OF Manu-
faeuiers of the Department of Com
merce and Labor. will serve as an IL
mtsartion of how the business of goat
raising is conducted in Mexico (The
money values are assumed to repres-
ent Mexican pesos, one of which equals
1913 cents in American currency.D
In 1904 the manager of the farm
received $4,000 goats. including large
and small, at a valuation of $3.50 each,
equa Ito $4,000. From the produce of
these he sold, during months of 1904
an dthe years 1906 and 1906. $4,000
head at S. each, equal to $25O,OOo, and
had tthe close of 1906, $4,000 head
on the farm. being $4,000 more than
he started with. The result was, count
in gthe value OF the $4,000 increase
at $3.50 each with the foregoing sales,
the investment OF $4,000 produce in