The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-02-02
ECONOMY OF ooAr'e MILK

" IS hlcn Ana nree Quarte LAY
Cost Five Cents Tip Woman
Got In Switzerland and Followed in
Illinois.
'Three quarts OF rich milk day at
. cost of less than 1--WE cents Is one
Of my household economies" answer
ed an Illinois woman when asked
why the tardy appearance of the milk
man never rufied her temper. mo,
/ don't buy 1t Of the milkman, but
get 1t fresh from the COW night and
morning. II l should go back home
now dare say / would find that cow
reposing on a rug on the sunny end
Of my back piazza with my three
year-old daughter plating her beard.
My daughter and Peggy are great
chums.
Peggy is the name of the COW
which we are now using. There is an
other out at pasture, and we call her
Nancy. They are both goats, register
ed Toggenburg ewes, and would not
exchange them for the finest COW to
be had
peggy is the older. We bought
her something over four years ago at
a fancy price, it Is true. but she has
paid for herself 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, I would rather
trust my little daughter on the street
with one of our goats than with any
dog ever saw. They are fully as in
telligent and watchful as dog.
my first knowledge of milch goats
was obtained in Switzerland about
five years ago. While out on tramp
In the mountains | was induced to
drink cup of goats milk was tired
and the milk seemed especially good
| tried another glass and soon became
a confirmed drinker of goats milk.
To me it was more delicious than
cows milk, so when returned home
I began at once to look for mllch
goat.
Peggy is the one found and she
cost us $35 cash. She was with her
first kid and only gave three pints a
day. BY judicious feeding we increased
the amount to two quarts. With her
second kid we brought her up to an
average Of three quarts a day.
Gas to the food and habits of the
milch goat, everything can be said in
her favor. She is the tidest and daint-
lest or animals She is particular
about her food in that she will not eat
anything tainted.
'She can pick a good living from a
pasture in which a COW would starye
She will eat the vegetable and cereal
leftovers with an appetite that leaves
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.
'"They are both gentle and intelli-
gent and adapt themselves to any and
all situations with an ease that is
remarkable. They seem equally happy
when shut up in the little shed which
my husband built for them in one
corner Of our back yard. tethered on
the grass plot in the front yard or
browsing on the common overgrown
with weeds and brushwood, Where
ever they are let them only hear our
voices and they answer and come at
once.
During the bad weather of the VIM
ter months they invariably come into
the kitchen to be MIXED.
'.As We live on small lot in small
town where the milk supply is poor
and uncertain the advantage of having
a good milch animal to depend on is
very evident Our lot is too small to
think OF keeping COW, and the cost
Of having it pastured together with
the extra feeding would make it too
expensive, but If it hadn't been for my
experience III oWltzc1i 1idlu SupPOSO =
would be as prejudiced against goats
as many Of my neighbors are still.
Il suppose the prejudice against
milch goats is largely due to the dis
agreeable habits imputed to our native
stock. Now that have had experience
with my two ewes I believe these
stories much exaggerated, and If
couldn't get Swiss milcher would
not hesitate to give the native breed
q trial.
Il should use Judgment in buying
either native or a Swiss eve, just as
l would in buying COW or horse. I
would look for the eve with large
deep stomach, wider and deeper at
the hind quarters than across the
chest. Such eve will have meagre
body with protruding hipbones and to
the unframed eye will have the APP
pearance Of being quite thin. This
thinness Is no drawback If the goat
eats heartily.
"a healthy Toggenburg goat carries
her head erect. her eyes are bright and
the expression of her face is intelli-
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