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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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IMPORTED ANGORA BUCK—GRAND CHAMPION PRIZE WINNER. swinging from low-hanging clothes lines—a four-footed Ishmaelite out-side the pale of the law—a hairy, horned personification of lawless im-pudence and worthless vagabondage. This is also the picture conveyedby the parable of Holy Writ, wherein the shepherd divideth his flock,placing the sheep upon his right hand, the goats upon his left. To be agoat, then, is to be an irredeemable outcast consigned to everlastingdarkness. So it was in the days of parables, and so it is now in moreliberal times. In the classic language of the street to **butt in is to I OS! ^ > >s 2 t?j oCP O I ^n ^■
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BREEDING AND CARE OP SH3SP. 1057 make a nuisance of ones self after the manner of Beara-^A 3illy, thegoat. What wonder, then, that it is hard for the goat famil) to shakeoff the reputation of 2,000 years, especially when that reputation issanctioned by the Holy Word. But there are goats and goats. The Angora is not a worthless vaga-bond like his bearded cousin, who loafs about the streets, a cheap clownmaking fun for small boys, an unspeakable butter in, whose chiefdelight is to chew the rag; on the contrary, he is an aristocrat, dig-nified and decorous, a thing of beauty and a source of profit to hisowner. Moreover, he has an interesting history. Although born and reared in the mountainous regions about Angora,a province 200 miles southeast of Constantinople, he is thoroughly athome in any part of the world where fortune takes him. It was in 1846 that Dr. James B. Davis of Columbia, S. C, at therequest of the Sultan, was sent to Turkey by President Polk to makeexperiments in the cult

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