The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-10-30
Goats Milk the Fad

Goats Milk the Fad
Kansas City Star: THE time is
coming when Kansas City, like Paris.
will live on goats milk The harass-
ing early cry of the morning milk
man will give way to the joyous b1eat-
ing of the goat as she is driven up to
the back door. Our babies and our
grown people will be healthy, and
there will be end to consumption
These predictions were made the
other day by DR.. E. r. Allen, the hrst
government meat inspector in Kansas
City, now a goat fancier in charge OF
the model goat farm at Electric Park
s%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 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 12O goats on the farm
here and we milk about seventy OF
them The goats average from one
to three quarts day each, and yet we
cannot supply all our trade nave
sent to w T. Mcintyre, who owns
these goats, to send two hundred
more mixers from his ranch.
I'VE established the government IN
spection here in 81" said Mr.. Allen,
land during my time at the stock
yards and packing houses we inspect
ed thousands upon thousands of goats
that were slaughtered. After several
years my attention was brought to the
fact that in all those thousands of
goats that had been inspected not one
diseased goat had been found we
gave them three inspections, an anti
mortem, post-mortem, and a micro
ScOpic inspection. 1t seemed remark
able to me that there was not at least
one diseased goat in all these num-
bers, for found many unhealthy
cattle, and this fact first made me In
terested in the little mixers
AT that time the packing company
was s1aughtering goats by the thou
sands, but the prejudice was so strong
against the goat that their meat was
| placed the market as prime NUT
tom and was very popular. since the
banquet at the stock yards year ago
when nothing but goat meat was
| served, the prejudice has gradually
! disappeared and you will now ind
<Angora venison' in almost every mar
ket. These goats we have here are
Mexican milk goats, but most of them
| are crossed with Angora.
cit has been several years since
! have drank or used in any way cows
| milk. During our meat inspection al
the stockyards we frequently came
| across COWS that were 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 tc
kill them we found the udder was
/ hard and caked. A microscopic exam
ination showed that the bad udder
| was full of tuberculosis germs, and we
| were Mortified to find that these germs
were in position to mfng1e with ev
| cry bit of milk given by the COW
| That startled me and I never used
| cows milk again. went before the
council to urge not only a rigid in
spection of milk sold by all diaries
/ but also a rigid inspection of the
| COWS in these diaries. The matter
was taken up, but it got lost in the
| maze of politics. Goats milk has al
| the properties of cows milk, with the
| added value of absolute purity The
| cream in the milk does not separate
| as it does in the cows milk, but it i:
| very rich in butter fat, and when but
| ter is made the milk is churned with
| out skimming. Excellent cheese car
be made from the goats milk