The sun., 1908-12-27
ECOEOKY or GOATS NLE
1T rs RECH AND THREE QUARTS
A DAY COST FIVE CENZA.

Tip Q woman Get In Switzerland and
FoIl0wed In nlinsis-T0sgenburE
Ewes Alss Coed Companions for
Small Chlldron-Easy 70 Take Care or
sThree quarts of rich milk day at
cost Of lees than Eve cents In one Of my
household economics answered hG liz.
pois woman when asked why the tardy
appearance Of the millEman never ruffed
her temper. EMO. don't buy IL OF tn
millxman. but set 1t fresh from the COW
night and morning. II I should 60 oAek
homo now dare say would find that
COW reposing on rug on the sunny end
Of my back piazza with my three-year-
daughter plating her beard. Ny daugh-
ter and Peggy are great ohums,
Peggy II the name Of the COW which
We are now using. There is another out
at pasture. and We call her Nancy. They
are both goats. registered ToggenburE
ewes, and 1 would not exchange them for
the finest COW to be had.
Peggy IN the older. We bought her
something over four years ago at fancy
price. it Is true. but abe has paid for her
SELF many times over in milk. not to take
into consideration the convenience Of
having her always within call and her
companionship with my baby.
"It may seem odd TO persons who have
had no experience with goats to speak Of
their looking after child, but. do you
know, would rather trust my Httls
dau ghter on the street with one Of our
goats than with any dog ever saw
They are fully as intelligent and watchful
as dog.
my first knowledge OF milch goats
was obtained in Switzerland about Eve
years ago. While out on tramp in the
mountains / was induced to drink q cup
Of goats milk. l was tired and the milk
seemed especially good. tried another
glass and soon became confirmed drinker
Of goats milk. To me 1t was moro deli.
cious than COWS milk. 90 when I returned
home l began at once to look for mich
goat.
aPeggy is the one j found and abe cost
us SIS cash. She was with her first lid
and only gave three pints q day. By
judicious feeding We increased the
amount TO two quartz With her second
kid We brought her up TO an average Of
three quarts q day.
Nancy was purchased nine months
later, and between the two we have had
abundant supply of rich milk ever since
at what seemed a>ridioulously low coat.
My baby has never tasted cows milk.
According TO physicians goats milk 10
much better suited for infants as q substi-
tute for mothers milk because of its eimi-
larity to human milk. One quart OF goats
milk is equal In nourishment and richness
to one and one half quarts Of COWS milk.
"As to the food and habits OF the miloh
goat, everything can be said in her favor.
She is the tidiest and daintiest OF animals,
She Is particular about her food in that
she will not eat anything tainted.
+, "She can pick good living from q
pasture in which a cow would starve:
She will eat the vegetable and cereal
leftovers with an appetite that lesves
no doubt about her enjoyment, She
will not eat scraps of meat, either cooked
or raw. but both Peggy and Nancy seem
TO enjoy buttered bread, especially whek
10 Ia part Of my baby's lunch.
They are both gentle and intelligent
and adapt themselves TO any and al
situations with an ease that is remsrb-
able. They seem equally happy when
shut up in the little shed which my buS
band built for them in one corner of om
back yard. tethered on the grass plot
common. overgrown with weeds and
br,Ishwood. Wherever they are let them
only hear our voices and they answer
and come at once.
During the bad weather OF the winter
months they invariably come into the
kitchen TO be MIXED. All We have to
do at milking time Is TO step TO the back
In a
bleat and Peggy or Nancy, whichever is
In milk, pushes open the swinging door
and comes trotting up the back steps
@As We live on O small lot in small
town where the milk supply is poor and
uncertain the advantage OF having
good miloh animal to depend on Is very
evident. Our lot is too small to think
IL pastured together with the extra feed
ing would make it too expensive. but II
it hadn't been for my experience in Swift
eerland / suppose 1 would be as preju-
diced against goats as many OF my neigh
bors are still.
goats is largely due to the dissgreeable
habits imputed to our native stock. Now
that have had experience with my two
ewes believe these stories much exag-
gerated, and il couldn't get a Swiss
milcher / would not hesitate to give the
native breed trial.
al should use judgment in buying
either native or q Swiss eve, just as
I would in buying a COW or a horse.
would look for a eve with a large deep
stomach, wider and deeper at the hind
quarters than across the chest. Such
eve will have meagre body with pro-
truding hipbones and TO the unframed
eye viii have the appearance of being
quite thin. This thinness Is no drawback
II the goat eats heartily.
"A healthy Toggenburg goat carries
her head erect, her eyes are bright and
the expression of her face Is intelligent,
with a sort Of cheerful inquisitiveness
The breath should be sweet, the nose dry:
the nostrils moist and the mouth and
gums as fresh and vivid as those Of
young girl. The safest way TO judge Of
the amount and quality OF the milk is
to see the eve you think Of buying milked
twice, in the evening and again the next
morning.
~There is an idea that goats do not
respond to gentle treatment. There never
was u greater Islander. They are the
most grateful animals have ever handled
They should be comfortably housed in
the winter. and while it is best TO allow
them TO run out sufficiently 10 get exer.
else we have often in severe weather kept
ours for weeks at a time shut in their ,
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