Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-10-06

iand, France and Germany is the
belief of Washington experts and who
have been looking over the mich goat
industry In Europe.
These experts urge American far
mers to test the possibilities of mich
goat dairying in the United States.
The mich goat has contributed
much to Switzerland's prosperity.
Germany years ago followed SwitZer-
lands example and her mich goat
industry is now valued annually at
more than $6O.000,000 In fact the
goat has become the poor mans cow"
in Germany
France is not far behind Germany
in adopting the mich goat for dairy
use; Austria, Italy and Spain have
well established mich goat industries
and England has become interested in
the successful results accomplished
there
The goat is pronounced less suscept-
bic to tuberculosis than the COW; some
authorities consider the goat entirely
immune from the disease. Therefore
goats milk is safer than cows milk. it
is urged. Goats milk has long been
regarded by physicians as superior
food for infants and invalids.
The mich goat industry in the Unit
ed States has its largest development
in northern New Jersey near Palisades
park, where about one thousand goats
are kept for milk producing purposes.
Italian immigrants have the credit Of
starting the industry at that place.
Many people thereabout have come
to prefer the milk of the goat to that OF
the cow. No effort has been made to
operate these dairies ON larger scale
than a score of goats and, as in Eu-
rope, many families merely have two
or three goats for their own use.
In European countries those used to
goats milk consider it a misfortune If,
by failure of supply, they are COM
PEELED to return to the use of cows
milk. The milk of the goat. they say,
is richer. more nutritious and more
palatable and has better keeping quail
tiles than that of the COW. Used in
cooking, its superiority over cows milk
is said to be apparent both to sight
and taste.
Experts in the department of agri-
culture believe the goat will be the
biggest factor in solving the future
milk problem of American communi-
ties. When the American farmer
learns he can keep five to ten mich
goats at the expense Of feeding one
COW. that the goats will get much food
without cost to their owner from 9TH
erwise useless land, that the goats
kept at the cost of feeding one COW
will give probably twice as much milk
as the COW and that the milk will sell
at higher price there will be a quick
awakening of interest
The government is planning to try
out the European mich goats on an
extensive scale. A section of the big
farm tract near Washington, recently
set apart for the use of the bureau Of
animal industry, will be used for the
goat dairy. A large herd of American
milch goats is already on the planta-
ton. but the experts look for their
greatest success from the thorough
bred mich goats of Switzerland, many
OF which will be imported. The value
of the different breeds and their
crosses under American conditions
will be tested.
Two quarts of milk a day is the
average record of the present Amer
lean mich goats. Many of the Swiss
goats give as high as five or six
quarts day and the average among
Swiss thoroughbred animals is around
four quarts. German agricultural
writer's assert that the mich goats of
that country give ten times their body
weight in milk year, while exception
al specimens give eighteen times their
weight.