The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-02-21
Goats Milk the Fad. !

Goats Milk the Fad. .:se !
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 bleat.
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 an end to consumption.
These predictions we're made the
other day by DR.. E. r.. Allen, the flrst
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 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 day each, and yet we
cannot supply all our trade. l have
sent to w. T. Mcintyre, who owns
these goats, to send two hundred
more mixers from his ranch.
1--WE established the government In
spection here in 49," said Mr.. Allen,
and 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, a post-mortem, and micro
scopic inspection. 1t seemed remark
able to me that there was not at least
one diseased goat in all these num-
bers, for we found many unhealthy
cattle, and this fact first made me In
terested in the little mixers.
"At that time the packing company
was Strengthening 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 find
'Angora venison' in almost every mar
ket. These goats we have here are
Mexican milk goats, but most Of them
are crossed with Angora.
ut has been several years since
have drank or used in any way cows
milk. During our meat inspection at
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 to
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 a position to mingle with ev-
cry bit of milk given by the cow.
That startled me and I never used
cows milk again. I went before the
council to urge not only rigid in
spection of milk sold by all dairies,
but also rigid inspection of the
COWS in these dairies. The matter
was taken up, but it got lost in the
maze Of politics. Goats milk has all
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 is
very rich in butter fat, and when but
ter is made the milk is churned with
out skimming. Excellent cheese can
be made from the goats milk"