Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-10-28
ITERMs 50 90 PER YER
NO. 40.
THE GOAT.

the first nations. In the SaCreC
Scriptures he is constantly referred
to as forming the wealth Of patri
archal families. BY the laws Of
Moses his meat was allowed to be
used as human food, and lie is or
dained to be employed in remarka-
BILE religious ceremonies. "Thou
shalt make chrtains Of goats hail
as a covering to the tabernacle, is
a sacred injunction. The earliest
GreciaB and Roman writer's speak
Of him rs yielding food and raj.
ment, and superstition connected
him with the attributes and servi-
ces of the gods. He has been the
universal companion ofmankind in
their migralions, from the earliest
periods of authentic history.
The fleece of the goat has fur.
nished man with the richest, most
durable and gorgeous attire; his
nutritious and wholesome milk and
meat have yielded him food his
skin has supplied the materials for
water sacks or bottles, morocco &c.
while the animal itself may be said
to have lived on chips. And vet
among us the goat is the subject OF
an unnatural and unreasonable pref
adice.
Our foreign population, howev-
er, are giving more attention to
the breeding and management OF
these neglected animals, especially
for their valuable milking proper
ties.
Mr.. l. S. Diehl, our former Con
sui at Batavia, says; "the goat is
an ihdiscriminate feeder, living on
weeds, browse, &c, where a sheep
would starve. Its milk is much
used by travellers and families, and
especially by inhabitants oftropic-
al, bilious and fever countries, as a
preventative and cure for those and
other diseases incident to such
countries. The medicinal qualities
of goats milk have bong been
known and acknowledged in the
old world and in some portions of
this country, it being not only very
wholesome, but less liable to cur
die on the stomach. By those who
have tested the different kinds of
milk, it is much esteemed and pre-
ferred for tea and coffee, and larL e
ly used for children and consump-
tives and invalids, especially at the
various hospitals, in Europe.
Mr.. James B. Davis, OF South
Carolina, who has travelled much in
the East. says:
"The Malta milking goat gives
about gallon of milk per day. 1t
may not be uninteresting for me to
state fact observed by me in the
malalious sections of the United
States and Mexico. In all similar
sections in Asia and the Eas;;, they
regard cows milk as being an ex-
citing cause to bilious fevers as
we'll as to liver complaint, and |
hence use only goats, milk. The
'modus agendt has been under dis
cussion by the faculty ofParis."
Professor Law says
Persons even in large towns
could, by the means of a goat, read
lily supply themselves wife milk far
to that which they com
monty obtain, and it is surprising
that a method so simple and cheap,
of avoiding the frauds too much
Dracticed in this kind of food,
should be neglected
A goat can be kept cheaper than
4 sheep and can be kept about the
house Of the poor man, or tied by
The roadside 1t will live on the
'efuse of the kitchen and a little
coarse feed, and yield from two to
Our quarts of the richest and most
milk per day during
learlY the year round.
The Scind goat, the Maltese, Sy-
ian and some other varieties, are
,aluable thilkers, and for conven-
ence and economy to the poor,
where food is high and pasturage
carcei they have in many places,
iten in the country, supplanted the
ow.
The goat crops even poisonous
,lants with impunity and relish, and
10 herbage or leaves seem to affect
he quality of its milk. Whenever :
gentleman keeps horse and can
Iot keep a COW, for want of room, l
b., d goat can be kept on the leay- {
ngs of the horse, and the health of {
be horse and the family promoted a
hereby, E
Mr. G. S. Goe, of Brownsville,
'enn., had an Assyrian goat which }
ave a gallon of milk per day. Mr.. :
)iebl had a similar goat equally =
ood, whose milk he sold to physi-
ians for their patients, for twenty =
ents a quart. I
The kid should be taken off when .
Dout three weeks old. The goat :
lould then yield about three quarts !
day till about three months be- !.
re parturition, when the quantity Il
ay be gradually reduced. a
A goat should always be milked "
Iree times a day. This is better " u
II the health of the goat, and i'm ~ ~
roves the quality and quantity of =; =;
ie milk. 1t is not generally known % %
goat will give more milk tethered =,
a certain spot and moved now ~ ~
i'd then, than when she is permit ''
d to fun atlarge. Ifmischievous
ev can be yoked and fettered.
The wool bearing goat is just to
,w q subject of great interest to b