chard Peters, of Atlanta, Georgia, secured
most of the Davis goats. To Col. Peters really belongs the credit of
keeping the Angora breed in existence in the United States up to the
early sixties. Col. Peters was very fond of his Angoras, and he
continued to own and run them up to the time of his death. He made a
very creditable exhibit at the New Orleans World's Fair in 1885.

THE CHENERY IMPORTATIONS.

W. W. Chenery of Belmont, near Boston, Massachusetts, is supposed to
have made the next two importations in 1861. No one seems to know
exactly how many goats Mr. Chenery imported or what became of these
lots. Mr. Thompson quotes the Massachusetts Ploughman as saying, "The
first of the two lots, consisting of thirty nine animals, was shipped
from Constantinople on the 26th of March, 1861, and arrived at Boston on
the 15th of May, except two animals which died on the passage. The
second lot consisting of forty one head, left Constantinople on the 6th
of October, 1861, and arrived at Boston on the 25th of November with the
loss of only one on the voyage. In the whole flock, eighty in all, there
were about a dozen males, and all the animals wintered well."

It is generally supposed that Mr. Chenery made another importation in
1866, of about twenty head.

[Illustration: ANGORA GOAT.

Brown and Diehl Importation, about 1868 or 1869.]

THE BROWN AND DIEHL IMPORTATION.

The next importation of practical importance, although it was claimed
that nine head were received about 1861, by one Stiles, was made by
Israel S. Diehl, a former U.S. consul and C. S. Brown, of Newark, New
Jersey, about 1868. Mr. Diehl was commissioned by the United States
government to investigate the industry in Turkey, and he secured a lot
of Angoras, variously estimated at from one hundred to one hundred and
sixty head. Mr. C. P. Bailey furnished the money for the transportation
of these goats to California. He says, "Some were fairly good and some
were only ordinary. They were of medium size, and with the exception of
the neck, tolerably well covered with fleece, which however had a
scattering of kemp throughout. They were conceded to be the best brought
to California up to that time." Some of these bucks had been tampered
with and were sterile.

EUTICHIDES IMPORTATION.

This shipment followed the Brown and Diehl importation, and consisted of
between one hundred and fifty and two hundred animals. A. Eutichides,
was a native of Turkey, and