The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-10-31
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 pieat-
ing of the goat as she Is driven up 10
the back door. Our babies and our
grown people will be healthy, ana
there will be an end to consumption
These predictions were made tne
other day by DR.. e. R. Allen, the nrst
government meat inspector In Kansas
City, now a goat fancier in charge Oh
the model goat farm at Electric Park.
"You needn't turn up your nose DIS
nv wife did when brought home my
first milk goat. You'll get over IL as
she did, and you'll drink goats milk
as she did, and you'll enjoy It, Iheie
are more people drinking goats MIX
in Kansas City to-day than you nave
any idea of, and there will be more VI
them right along. Every morning
you will find carriages driving up TO
Electric Park bearing women Win
their babies; and If you could see
them relish the goat milk when tney
drink it, babies and mothers alhe'
you would not smile at my predlctioh'
why, we have 120 goats on the farm
here and we milk about seventy OIL
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 nuhureu
more mixers from his ranch.
eve established the government III
spection here in 3d." said Mr.. Allen
"and during my time at the stoch
yards and packing houses we inspect
ed thousands upon thousands OF goats
that were slaughtered. After seVerai
years my attention was brought 10 Inc
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 anu
mortem, a post-mortem, and micro
scopic inspection. 1t seemed remarh.
able to me that there was not at leas'
one diseased goat in all these num-
bers, for we found many unnealthy
cattle, and this fact first made me In
terested in the little mixers.
"At that time the packing company
was slaughtering goats by the thou'
sands, but the prejudice was SO strong
against the goat that their meat was
placed on the market as prime NUT
ton" 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 nnd
'Angora venison in almost every mar
ket. These goats we have here are
Mexican milk goats, but most OF them
are crossed with Angora.
"It has been several years since
have drank or used in any way COW 5
milk. During our meat inspection at
the stockyards we frequently came
across COWS that were sent down by
dairymen to be slaughtered because
thew 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
|
nation 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 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 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 all
sae 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 1t Is
very rich in butter fat, and when but
ter is made the milk is churned with
out Swimming. Excellent cheese can
be made from the goats milk"
Machinery in Creameries.