IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 3 May 1913, Page 3

IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

ANGORA GOAT RAISING.' Giving evidence before the Northern Territory Railways Commission in Adelaide last week, Mr. F. B. Wells remarked that the industry of breeding Angora Stoats offered enormous possibilities in Central Australia. There were millions of acres of rough land among the areas of a better class, and, although it was useless for the raising of cattle, sheep, and horses, it was ideal for the goat. By way of instancing the value of Angora goats and the suitableness of Central Australia for raising them, the witness mentioned that the late Mr. E. C. Kenipe, of Warrina station, about 80 miles south-east of Oodnadatta, had bought some stud Angoras from Mr. Price Maurice, and, crossing them with common goats, he got back at the eighth cross' to pure Angoras. Mr. Kempe had informed the witness that he not only kept, his station in meat from tho culls of his goats, but ho also paid all tho wages 011 the station from the proceeds of the sales of bucks and of mohair and fat. Indeed, in tho last year he had a surplus of <£2000. The (lock of goats was run on the ; station witli the big stock. The witness suggested that the way to develop the goat industry would bo to establish slaughtering and freezing depots at convenient points along tho routo of the trans-Continental railway.