The case for the goat : with the practical experience of twenty-five experts / by "Home Counties" [i.e. J.W. Robertson Scott].

  • J. W. Robertson Scott
Date:
1908
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Credit: The case for the goat : with the practical experience of twenty-five experts / by "Home Counties" [i.e. J.W. Robertson Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    goats, sometimes more. The cost of a goat is about 3d. a day in winter, but in summer- time when grass is plentiful you can keep a goat for a penny daily. I let my goats pasture in a large meadow all day, and they are stalled for the night. In my case I con- sider that the sale of the kids and the stud fees pay for the hay, corn, and bran, and that the milk is the profit. A herd of common goats would not pay, but the Toggenburg goats, a hornless variety of the Canton St. Gall, in Switzerland, are the only goats I keep. I enclose you a photograph of a remarkable goat, named Galatea [vide illustration], who took many prizes. This is a pure-bred Tog- genburg. After her first kidding her yield was 8 pints daily, and she kept up this yield for five months, and stayed in milk till her next kidding.” Idiosyncrasies.—In wet weather goats necessarily cost more to keep than in fine. It is also obvious they are likely to be more cheaply kept in summer than in winter. Goats not in profit need less, of course, than
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