air is too short to be of much value. It
will be combed out at the mill as noil. An expert shearer can clip about
the same number of range goats that he can range sheep--from ninety to
one hundred and twenty a day.

The machine shear is rapidly taking the place of the hand shear. It
clips the mohair close to the skin and almost does away with double
cutting. It requires less skill to shear with a machine shear, and it
does the work more uniformly. There is also less danger of cutting the
animal. The machines do the work very rapidly.

After the goat is shorn the fleece should be collected and rolled into a
bundle, "bump," and placed in a sack or bale. It should not be tied, as
the mill men object to the particles of string which remain in the
mohair and disfigure the manufactured product. Any colored fleeces,
discolored mohair, or mohair containing objectionable features, such as
burrs, straw, etc., can be placed in separate parcels. The kid mohair
can be kept by itself, and the wether and doe mohair can be separately
packed. The long mohair should be kept separate from short stuff. Thus
one grades the mohair to some extent on the farm, and he has a better
idea of what the clip should bring.

If the mohair is to be shipped a long distance, it will pay to bale the
fleeces, as compact bales occupy much less space than sacks. The freight
rates are usually less upon baled mohair than they are upon the sacked
material. The cost of baling the mohair is a little less than the cost
of sacking.

[Illustration]

BREEDING OF THE ANGORA GOAT.

One can learn very little about breeding the Angora goat from the Turk.
As we know from Tchikacheff's work, which was published over fifty years
ago, cold winters often killed many of the Angoras in Asia Minor, and
the Turk then imported from more favored districts common bucks or does
to breed to the Angora. This was before the great demand for mohair,
occasioned by the increase in manufacturing plants at Bradford, England,
caused the Turkish mohair raisers to resort to all manner of means to
increase the supply of raw material.

To-day the Turk is treading in the paths of his forefathers. What was
good enough for them, certainly ought to be good enough for him, so he
reasons. He eats with his fingers, cooks on a brazier, sits on the
floor, eats, drinks, sleeps and works all in the same room, and keeps
his wives in seclusion.

When he comes to breeding the Angora he leaves