New-York tribune., 1912-02-14
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Cutting DosUn the Food Bills
Go ats Translate Waste Herbage and Cumbering
Tangle Into Terms of Milk and Meat
By Martha MecuIloch Williams.

laughed at for a fortnight, but in six
months will have imitators Goats OF good
milking strain should yield two to three
quarts daily. Goats milk is as good as
any otner II careful cleanliness prevails.
For childi Ell, especially babies. It is better
than cows milk. Invalids also find It
easier Of digestion. And the noble army
of Cooks tourists who yearly rush abroad
to do Europe In sixty days may feel more
truly at home II they get with their cereal
or morning coffee the very same lacteal
they absorbed gratefully in Florence or
Milan.
The herd should be farmed QUITO the
highway commissioners or private persons
at need. It can be depended on TO clean
UP any unsightly or pest harboring tangle.
If herder is out Of the question, the ami
mails can be staked out, each with sufficient
space. Tcthering, indeed, is necessary where
one must clean a given spot within a given
time. As TO the smell, the fouling. that
will quickly pass. Goat clipped lawns gain
in luxuriance. The kids should be kept to
edible size-say four months. They can be
staked out, away from their mothers, or
put into Enclosures requiring scavengers,
and richly earn their keep. Kid skins care
fully removed. lightly salted and dried In
airy shade are emnenty salable. think
the United States imports yearly around
five million dollars worth Of adult goat
skins and tidy amount OF dressed Kid
skins.
The high cost Of living has melted at
least one Mayor to dispense potatoes and
poultry at cost to his admlring fellow citi-
no "a
the municipal authorities who will set UP a
goat dairy for the cleaning UP OF plague
spots. and dispense the increment OF II I'M
partially among supporters and opponents.
Don't say this is socialsm-eVen without
the capital letter. Nothing OF the sort.
Merely an experiment in economics. II Is
clearly dcmonstrable that the powers that
be should abate every nuisance possible.
Abating nulsances is costly X 1t must DO
done by human hands. Moreover weeds ana
bushes and briers cut down by scythe, axe
and billhook are so much waste, III 10
handle and hard 10 get rid Of. herd OF
goats. browsing upon 1t, growing fat. Civ
ing milk, can turn this waste matter into
something OF value. Turning waste into
value is the secret Of wealth-witness the
by-Troducts Of oil. coal tar and the pack
ing houses Goats milk fresh twice day
might work wonders in the case OF under
nourished children. for whom the kindly
feel IT necessary to devise special schools.
Prevention is cheaper than cure, whether
YOU are dealing with tuberculosis or GRIM
inaIity. 4 craving stomach Is mighty
stimulant Of evil-so Is the stunted physique
that bespeaks underfeeding. Since we are
born into this world by no volition OF our
own, II is no more than reasonable to ask
that we be given a chance. even though
agiying the chance involves departure
from all precedent
The goat dairy would have a wider use
fulness az an object lesson; namely. that
the best solution Of the problem or rising
prices is TO bring production as close as
possible 70 the ultimate consumer so long
as there are hundreds of miles between the
feeding earth and the mouths to be fed the
agencies which traverse those miles needs
must take their toll And the army when
mans them must likewise have It's wages.
Food and hunger. sitting cheek by jowl.
will adjust themselves in the frendliest
fashion.