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Title: Practical Angora Goat Raising

Author: C. P. Bailey

Release Date: July 5, 2010 [EBook #33084]

Language: English

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One of the founders of the Angora Goat Industry in America.]

Practical
Angora Goat Raising

C. P. BAILEY & SONS COMPANY
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
1905.

PREFACE.

For several years beginners in the Angora goat industry were without
text books, and even to-day there are very few practical treatises. From
our forty years of experience in farming Angoras, and from the personal
observations of our Dr. W. C. Bailey, while in the interior of Asia
Minor, we have tried to select the essential points in the successful
management of Angora flocks, and to present these points so that they
may be used.

We have given a brief outline of the history of the Angora goat, but we
have devoted several pages to consideration of detail in breeding and
kidding. It has been our aim to make this a practical text book for the
beginner in the Angora industry, and if it proves of value to him, it
has fulfilled its mission.

The Authors.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE ANGORA GOAT.

As to the origin and early history of the Angora goat little is known.
It is supposed that the Angora variety descended from one of the classes
of wild goats, and different writers have contended that different
genera were the foundation of the Angora species. They have based these
claims upon the characteristics of the horns, the covering of the body,
shape and size of the animal, and various other details. Several agree
that Capra AEgagrus is the class of goat from which the Angora species
has developed.

KNOWN FACTS.

Present history traces the Angora goat to the vilayet of Angora, in Asia
Minor, and