White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-10-03
new YORK GIRL
HAS COAT FARM
Josephine Jerks Makes a Hobby
of Raising the Animals.
THEY ARE NOT PETS ONLY
Owner Has Made . Study of the
Scientific Effect Of Goats Milk on
Babies and Says Thousands Of FAM.
lies In City Suburbs Of America
Could and Should Raise Nannies.

Could and Should Raise Nannies.
To a sixteen-year-old girl belongs
the credit of having established and
superintendent a model goat farm for
the sole purpose of demonstrating thai
II is feasible for any private family
with a backyard to keep a goat for its
milk-yielding value and thus help solve
the growing problem of the ldisfribu.
ton Of milk in large cities. She is
Miss Josephine J.. jerks, a daughter
Of William +. jerks. a New York
broker.
Miss jerks Is n mere slip of Il grl.
Her interest in goats began when
she acquired one for a pet five years
ago and grew until she determined tG
make a hobby of the raising of nan.
MES. She Is perhaps the only shep.
herdess of the kind In the country.
She has built and laid u as a re-
suit OF her own study and planning
model barns and pastures on a portion
Of her fathers 60O-acre estate, known
as Mount Kemble Farm. near Morris
town, N. j. She owns thirty mich
goats, about twenty kids and a mum.
Der of imported bucks.
Made Goats a Study.
Merely having goats for pets did
not satisfy Miss jerks. As she grew
older, she began to read about them,
at first to learn of their habits and
origin, their needs in the way of pas
turage and care during the winter
months, and finally to determine their
economic value. She read books about
goat-raising In foreign countries until
she settled in her mind that If II was
feasible for families to use goats mill
instead of cows milk in Switzerland
England, Africa and India 1t would b.
feasible in America. Her father
pampered her hobby and bought hel
a number of foreign goats, including
some valued at $500 each. No shep
herdess in France or Switzerland wa.
prouder of her herd than was Mis-.
jerks of hers.
But having become interested IL
some scientific works on goatlore sh'
had a more serious plan in her min,
than merely satisfying a hobby. Storie
Of the lack of milk for the babies Il
the congested districts of New Yorl
had a special meaning for her. TIL
price of milk was always going up, sh
learned, the distributors were com
planning that because of the higl
wages demanded by milk handlers ant
drivers the distribution cost was eve
soaring. and the farmers complains
that because Of the regulated price
did not pay to feed cows for whs
little returns came from the milk.
Miss jerks. despite her youth. ha
become quite a scholar concerning tn
scientific effect of milk on babies. Sh
says:
To Save Babies Lives.
statistics show that 100000 babit
die annually in this country becaus
Of malnutrition and bovine tuberc,
iosis. This fact has been brought OF
by the Milk and Baby Hygiene ass,
citation and the American Associate
for the Study and Prevention of Il
FAINT Mortality. In Russia, Austria an
Germany Investigations have reveale
that a low death rate in any given di
trict bears an intimate relation to II
number of goats kept In that district
Travellers in rural France al
much impressed by the rugged a,
p%earance of children there, which
due TO their subsisting ON goats mil
j am told the Greek and Turks
mothers are convinced that goat
milk Is of more benefit to their chi
4dren than Is cows milk.
OF course. Miss jerks knew tn,
families in congested districts coul
not keep goats, but. she declare.
thousands of families who live in m
suburbs have plenty of backwards an
open fields in which TO raise them. Sh
determined that all that was needle
was "A little education on the subjeci
Advantages Of Goats.
Summed up, here are Miss jerks
conclusions as a result of her dali
experience with fifty and sometimes
hundred goats:
Goats are less bulky, more manage
able and eat less than cows. Therefor
they cost less to maintain and can b
kept where cows cannot.
They yield proportionately NOR,
milk than cows; their milk Is NOR
nourishing and more digestible, and
the animals being on the premises, tn,
milk supply Is always available
with less ice and less chance Of III
spelling.
Unlike sheep or cows, goats arr
affectionate, and when kindly treatet
they become fond Of their masters
so fond, In fact, that, as In Miss
jerks case, they will follow their own
er through the woods or we the hills
as faithfully as a dog. Kids AFFORD