Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1920 — NEW OCCUPATION FOR GOAT [ARTICLE]

NEW OCCUPATION FOR GOAT

Billy and Nanny May Ba Profitably Emptayod in Clearing Away the Impeding Underbrush. , Tha monkey cotton picker was never an entire success. Tbs monkey could pick Hie cotton, but it coot more to provide human direction to guide his efforts thap the negro cotton pickers asked for the whole job, picking, directing and all. But the Angora goat as a clearer of land requires no direction. Just string a few strands of barbed wire around the land to be cleared so that Mr. and Mas. float end the kids shall not ciear the land that 4s not to be cleared and they will do the job without even a casual suggestion from the land owenr. The success which has attended the raising of Angora goats in toe rugged Osark country of southwestern Missoori has suggested to specialists of toe department of agriculture that it might be equally profitable to 'place auto herds> on many other wild tracts, particularly those which have been cut over, because these goats are proving of great help in clearing away nnderbrush. Growth mohair and producing kids, the Angoras in the Ozarks are also trimming down the brush, manuring the hills and preparing the way for grass, cattle and sheep. According to reports secured by a representative <rf the state college of agriculture in Missouri, the Angoras required .to dear an acre of land varies from two to five, depending on the density and size of the brush.