The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-06
Goats Milk the Fad.

THE time is coming when Kansas
City, like Paris, will live on goats milk.
The harassing early cry of the morn
ing milkman will give way to the joy
Gus bleating of the goat as she is drv-
en- up to the back door. Our babies
and our grown people will be healthy,
and there will be an end to consump
ton"
These predictions were made the
other day by DR.. f. r. Allen, the first
government meat inspector in Kansas
City, now goat fancier in charge of
the model goat farm at Electric Park.
You needn't turn up your noses
like my vile did when / brought home
my first milk goat. You'll get over it
like she did, and youll drink goats
milk like she did. and you'll enjoy it.
There are more people drinking goats
milk in Kansas City to-day than you
have any idea of, and there will be
more of them right along Every
morning you will find carriages driving
up to Electric Park bearing women
with their babies, and if you could see
them relish the goat milk when they
drink it, babies and mothers alike, you
would not smile at my prediction.
Why, we have 120 goats on the farm
here and we milk about seventy of
them. The goats average from one
to three quarts a day each, and yet
we cannot supply all our trade. l have
sent to w. T. Mcintyre who owns
these goats, to send 200 more mixers
from his ranch at Morris, Kan
DR.. Allen is a veterinarian and his
fancy for goats came about through
his employment as meat Inspector. He
became Disguised with cows and their
milk and he turned to the goat as the
only salvation
Extremely Healthy-"We established
the government inspection here in 81"
said DR.. Allen. land during my time at
the stock yards and packing houses We
inspected thousands upon thousands of
goats that were slaughtered. After sew
eral years my attention was brought to
goats that had been inspected not one
diseased goat had been found. We gave
them three inspections an antimor
tenn, a post-mortem and a misCrocOpic
inspection. 1t seemed remarkable to ME
that there was not at least one dis
eased goat in all these numbers, for
we found many unhealthy cattle, and
this fact first made me Interested in
the little mixers.
AT that time the backing company
was slaughtering goats by the thou
sands, but the prejudice was 50 strong
against the goat that Their meat was
placed on the ma 'Iet as "pri:ne mt
ton. and was very ron Ear since the
banquet at the stock yards Il year ago
when nothing but goat meat was serv-
ed, the prejudice has gradually disap-
peared and you win now find 'Ansora
venison' in almost every market. These
goats we have here are Mexican milk
goats, but most of them are crossed
with Angora.
1T has been several years since
have drank or used in any way cows
milk. During our meat inspection at
the stock yards we frequently came
across cows that We're sent down by
dairymen to be slaughtered because
they had ceased TO be valuable as dairy
COWS. The dairymen said they had
bad udders' and when We came to kill
them we found the udder was hard and
caked. A microscopic examination
showed that the bad udder was full
of tuberculosis germs, and we were
Mortified TO find that these germs were
in a position to mingle with every bit
of milk given by the COW. That start
led me and / never used cows milk
again. l went before the council to
urge not only rigid inspection of milk
sold by all dairies, but also a rigid in
spection of the cows in these diaries.
The matter was taken UP. but 1t got
lost in the mazes of politics.