PLAN No. 804. BECOME TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANT FOR U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
Plan No. 805. Climbing with the Goats
PLAN No. 805. CLIMBING WITH THE GOATS
Two men, both traders of rare ability, one had land located in the Ozark Mountains, Douglas County, Missouri, and the other owned level but dry land in the West. Each thought his land so poor that he could not lose in the trade.
The party whom we are most interested in took the Missouri land.
When his taxes were due he visited his land and found he had received in this trade some very beautiful scenery. In places it was so rough that he had to hold on to the trees to keep on his land.
The party showing him the land told him that this was good land for goat raising. This gave him an idea—goats would clean the land, build the soil and they required but little attention. And the goats would thrive in such a country. One advantage the land possessed was a good supply of water.
Thirty days after receiving this idea he put over fifty goats on the land and fenced his several hundred acres.
In five years his herd of fifty goats had grown to four hundred, he now owns 1300 acres. The goats cleaned all under brush and kept all sprouts down and deadened the timber. The goats had prepared this land so that orchard grass, native blue grass and clover was planted and grew in such abundance that the owner was able to take care of 100 head of cattle in addition to the goats.