Evening star., 1902-08-22
GOOD IN GOATS MILK
REMARKABLY FOR PURITY AND
RICH IN CREAM.
Experiments and Observation Made by
Government Meat Expert
Demand Growing.

From the Kansas City Star.
THE time is coming when Kansas City.
like Paris, will live goats milk. The
harassing early morning cry of the milk
man VIII give way to the Joyous bleating
OF the goat as she is driven up to the back
door. Our babies and our grown people
viii be healthy. and there will be an end to
consumption These predictions were
made the other day by DR.. z. r. Allen, the
nrst government meat inspector in Kansas
City. now a goat fancier in charge of the
model goat farm at Electric Park "You
needn't turn up your nose, as my wife did
when I brought home my first milk goat.
You'll get over 1t as she did, and you'll
drink goats milk as she did and you'll en-
joy it. There are more people drinking
goat milk in Kansas City today than you
nave any idea of, and there will be more of
them right along. Every morning you will
nnd carriages driving up to Electric Park
bearing women with their babies: and II
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 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 Norris, Kan.
All the GoatS Healthy.
DR.. Allen is veterinarian and his fancy
Tor goats came about through his employ
ment as meat Inspector He became dis
gusted with cows and their milk and he
turned to the goat as the only salvation
we established the government meat in
spection here In 81" said Mr. Allen, land
during that time at the stock yards and the
packing houses We inspected thousands
upon thousands Of goats that were slaugh-
tered. After several years my attention
was brought to the fact that in ali those
thousands of goats that had been inspected
not one diseased goat was found. We gave
them three Inspections an ante -morten a
post-mortem and a microscopic inspection
1t seemed remarkable to me that there
was not at least one diseased goat in all
these numbers, for we found many un-
healthy cattle, and this fact first made me
interested in the little mixers. At that
time packing company was slaughtering
goats by the thousands, but the prejudice
was so strong against the goat that the
meat was placed the market as prime
mutton and was very popular. Since
the banquet which was served at the stock
yards year ago, when nothing but goat
meat was served. the prejudice has grad
ually disappeared, and you will now find
Angora venson in almost every market
These goats We have here are Mexican milk
goats. but most Of them are crossed with
Angora.
Weeds and Thorns.
Goats eat bark, shrubs. weeds briars
and such things. and in and around Boston
Baltimore Philadelphia, New York and
Jersey City we send herds of goats every
year to be turned loose in the patches of
sassafras, persimmon and other sprouts
that no man can grub out. The goats thor
oushly clean these patches away. and they
never return. In their places a fine blue
grass invariably grows If you turn goat
loose In flower garden ii will eat all the
weeds in hurry, but it will never touch
mower. except, OF course. rose bushes and
such thorny growths. The goat meat has
Venison flavor, and is not the least bit
'woolly, as you might imagine. Goats
mix mas all the properties of cows milk
with the added value of absolute purity
The cream in the milk does not separate
like 1t does in cows milk. but it is very
rlch In butter fat. and when butter is made
the milk is churned without skimming
Excellent cheese can be made from the
goats milk