38 The 'Book of the Goat. 



and neck that are light, being saffron-red, and the body 

 black, with a black bar down each side of the face. The 

 ears are long and decidedly erect, the coat is close and 

 shiny, the body long, and the head, like those of other 

 Alpine varieties, neat and compact. Several specimens 

 were on view at the Paris Goat Show in 1903, and they were 

 regarded by English judges as almost, if not quite, the 

 most attractive collection present. These goats are to be 

 found in the Tarentaise and other districts of Savoy 

 bordering on the French Alps, but they are not very 

 generally met with. 



The Goals of Jt'cvitzerland. 



Switzerland, of all European countries the most 

 adapted to the goat, seems to have devoted the greatest 

 care and attention to the breeding of this animal' for milk 

 production, and this has no doubt been going on for a 

 vast number of years, as breeds like the Toggenburg are 

 very prepotent and fix their characteristics on their progeny 

 in a very marked manner, -even when crossed with other 

 kinds of a quite different type. The French authority 

 mentioned is, however, very loth to give the Swiss credit 

 for their good work in this direction, for he claims as 

 French such goats as the Toggenburg, Saanen, and Alpine, 

 regarding the first two as mere varieties of the last. 

 Thus we read in his book under the heading " Race 

 Alpine " : " We have already said that all the caprine 

 varieties that we possess in the French Alps exist equally 

 in Switzerland, where they know how to set a value on 

 them under the denomination of breeds. Thus it is that 

 all white or cream-coloured goats without horns and with 

 short hair are characterised as Saanens." Now, such a 

 remark as that first quoted may apply to Alpines, but it 

 is difficult to see how it can be applicable to the Saanen or 

 Toggenburg, for though these animals are kept in France, 



