Information Concerning the Angora Goat (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Thompson, George Fayette

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ISBN 10: 1333406339 ISBN 13: 9781333406332

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

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It may not be out of place in this connection to remark that great credit is due to Dr. Davis, of South Carolina, for the enterprise he exhibited in the introduction of the goat to this country. He was at the time in the employ of the Turkish Govern ment, at a salary of engaged in experiments upon the growing of cotton in the Sultan's dominions. He went out upon the recommendation of President Polk, to whom an application was made by the Turkish Government for the services of some competent Southern gentleman familiar with cotton culture. While there he determined to procure the goat from its native wilds. The story of the journey would be too tedious for my brief letter, and I will merely add that, with an expensive outfit at Constantinople, a perilous journey of months, and the loss of many men and camels, he succeeded in capturing and carrying off eleven of the famous animals, whose fleeces, in the shape of Shawls, are so highly prized and coveted by the ladies of all civilized nations and for which prices almost startling have been paid by the wealthy.

Such a tale of fortitude and determination, added to the information in another paragraph in the same letter which stated that the entire yield of the particular flock about which he was then writing had been engaged in the city of New York at per pound, from which point it was to be shipped to Paisley, Scotland, for manufacture into the shawls mentioned above, no doubt assisted in the sale of goats at each.

In 1863, Hon. George A. Porter, of Baltimore, himself a breeder of Angoras, wrote to Mr. Diehl that, while occupying the post of United States consul at Constantinople, he procured and shipped for Dr Davis the first of these goats that were ever brought to this coun try. Just how much Mr. Porter was acting upon the courtesy of the Sultan it is difficult to ascertain.

Of the nine Angoras imported by Dr. Davis, seven were does and two were bucks. Besides these, according to Colonel Peters, there came in the same lot one purebred Tibet doe, Several head of crosses between the Angora and Tibet goats, and quite a number of grade does bred from the common short-haired ewes of the country and his Angora buc (s. Plate I Shows a pair of the Angoras imported by Dr.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1333406339
• ISBN 13: 9781333406332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136