Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — 280 Angora Goats Clear Brush And Sprouts at Small Expense. [ARTICLE]

280 Angora Goats Clear Brush And Sprouts at Small Expense.

White County -Democrat. The neatest and cleanest job of brushing and sprouting that Nit been done on any term about Mobtieelio this summer, is that an the Baker & Coble farm at the range line cross fo*ds west of this «2tf. These gentlemen have been busy improving this farm for a couple of years and it was a problem at Hist how to elean up the tout weedy fence rows and the danse underpastures at the least expense. Hi«'SSfebeard that coats had bees used to advantage tor that purpose they concluded to take a venture, and going to the stock yards they bought 250 head early In tbs season. It has proved a successful venture; the fence row* are dean and the woods are trimmed up as high as a man’s shoulders with not a eent of expense except for a ifttls salt and the tumble of keeping plenty of water In reach M these willing workers. There has beep no disease among them and the only fatality reported is #here one became too frisky and running up on a threshing machine standing in the Add fell olf and bro|te Me These Angoras are grade dock and will produce quite a clip of mohair—two or three pounds to the goat, that will bring at least 35 cents per pound on the market As to their flesh, hundreds of people are eating goat meat today, imagining they are using choke mutton. They are surely profitable first aids to farmers who^desir^an that is covered with danse weeds and small underbrush they leave H ready for the plow. Nine steamers, some of them already under way, had been chattered Thursday night by diplomatic officers of the United States as auxiliaries to ships of regular lines in moving warbound Americans from Europe. v