The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
TO GROW GOATS IN BROOKLYN
BULLS PLAN NATURALLY NAMES
HARLEM SORE.
Buna Io MAN Thinks Ne Could Help solve the
MIX Problem Of the Metropolis some
Obvious Advantages and Disadvantages
Of Long island as a Pasture Land.

Of Long island as a Pasture Land.
W. Sheldon Bull Of Buffalo. who is adj
dressed by those very close to him as Buff
falo Bull" but known and envied at every
spot in the United States where horsey
people congregate as h only American
member OF the British Goat Society, stood
right up yesterday inc answered in a clear
voice the mooted question: why is Brook
lynn" Brooklyn il the one ideal spot. says
Mr.. Bull Of B~uffalo-and his proud distinc-
ton Of being the only American member
Of the British Goat Society lends additional
weight to his words-in all our land IN
which to raise the common or Harlem
garden variety~of goat.
Goats, says Bull OF Buffalo. are soon to
be a great factor in the milk supply of
Manhattan. Up and down Long Island he
has tramped Of late searching with scien-
tific eye for the goat planting possibilities
OF the island. Only yesterday Mr.. Bull
of the British Goat Society announced that
his investigation of Long Island was fin
ished and that soon he hoped to see the
place abloom with goats all over the works.
In this country" says Mr.. Bull--and
again attention might be called to his proud
boast that he is the only American men,
Der Of the British Goat Society, and there
fore knows whereof he speaks-"in this
country there has been a distressing lack Of
scientific attention TO the goat. But when
the start Ia once made there will be beautiful
opportunities for a good goat farm over
here"
His walking stick swept in the general
direction Of Marcy avenu In justice
to the Park Slope section it should be- said,
however, hat Mr.. Bulls cane also took
in the Slope momentarily. But the cane
tip pointed a little longer toward Marcy
avenue and there seemed to be just a tiny
bit more enthusiasm in Mr.. Bulls eyes
while he was aiming his cane at the avenue
than when he pointed toward the Slope.
Fortunately MIR. Bull Of the British Goat
Society was able to finish the story OF his
investigation Of the Brooklyn boast that
IL is a great place for goats long before
Harlem even got wind OF the fact that the
investigation had been completed and the
verdict in. And If ever there was a sore
spot on the map 1t was Harlem when it heard
the decision Of the only American menu
Der OF the British Goat Society. Epithets
like nature faker' and goat butter in"
were among the very mildest shat a
humbled Harlem shouted southwark through
the household megaphones in the general
direction of Mr.. Bull Of Buffalo as the
infurated residents leaped from crag to
crag making afternoon calls OF indignation.
Out on the Harlem cliffs poured the popu-
lace all afte rnoon shouting its w~arwhoOps
Of chagrin. Crag after orag took on it's
load Of clinging shouters until the cliffs
were black with people. For a long time
Harlem has watched every move Of Mr..
Bull OF Buffalo while he tramped UP and
down Long Island, because Harlem has
a full realization that the minute-it loses
it's goats it loses its distinction. Without
goats Harlem would he like any other
suburb, and perhaps not wen that.
Now it would hardly be a bit chubby ON the
part OF THE sun TO mix in any jealous fight
of this kind between two suburbs, especially
when the fight has nothing TO do with New
York city proper: but decency compels
any one that has given scientific thought
to goats to side with Mr.. Bull when he says
that Brooklyn ia a grand place for raising
goat milk. Mr.. Bulls Buffalo goat and
COW statistics and comparisons show at a
glance that no COW has anything on a goat.
according to the Bull figures. which were
prepared in Buffalo.
In Switzerland ana France. say the
u - 8Oag tihot HoNSoA ~ 81 OoAA
yield from five to six quarts of milk a day.
In other words. a good faithful goat will
give UP annually from ten to sixteen times
its own weight in milk and never make a
roar about it. But. ali. 10Y about the
oow7 Mr.. Bull says a cow annually parts
with only Ave times it's own weight in milk.
But, retort the COW fanciers, think how
much pleasanter it Ia, when one owns a
COW, to sit and sip at cows milk while
thinking how much p~leasanter it 10 to
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goat. than it is. when one WINS a goat. TO
sit and sip at goats milk and think how
much pleasanter IL 10 10 think how much
heavier a COW 10 thai q goat. Further
more. argue the cow ~fsnciers, think how
much pleasanter. it 10 to be able to think
you're drinking COWS milk while you're
drinking goats milk, or. at the very least.
to be able 20 think Of something plessshter
than drinking goats milk while drinking
Straishtaway the goat fanciers come pack
with the slogan that ran deiantly from
Harlem cliffs and crags yesterday, a wal
soma written by Kenny Snyder. the only
Williamsburg member OF the Harlem Goat
Society:
I've never met a purple goat.
And II I did I'd cut 'er:
But COWS give purple milk. pray note.
And often pale pink butter.
At Yaphank and other points just east Of
the brOOklyn Borough HAL the Long iblanu
Railroad people have been carrying on
experiments with fodder crops on waste
land. and it was these experiments that
first attracted the attention OF Mr.. Bull
OF the British Goat Society TO the goat
possibilities Of the eastern bank OF the
East River and the southern shore OF the
Sound. Teosinte. a Japanese plant. has
been raised there with screaming success,
and Japanese millet. Virginia horsetooth
corn Inc alfalfa have kept on growing
on Long Island even after the tender shoots
got their first peep above ground and realized
where they were. Any automobile speeder
who has ever been Ragged by the town
constable out Yaphank way or in any other
Brooklyn suburb need not be told that
alfalfa grows well on Long Island.
A stroll through any part Of Brooklyn
will show one more alfalfa, some punches
growing all the way down TO the waist
line. h a n can see any place this side OF
Peapack, the home town OF the plant. There
lie one variety, known as the painlessparker,
that 10 especially luxuriant all along the
B. r. T. Coney line. especially from the
Bridge to Bay Ridge. All this plant needs
is a bare brick wan or a billboard and it
sprouts up with q yell. The painless
parker is much like the johnphilipsousa
aIfalfa h,tf Ia NOT an Ufdaapraad II pavar