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name for the " Chamoisee," the animal depicted in the 

 book just mentioned being of precisely the same type, but 

 without horns. 



THE TOGGENBURG. This breed is said to be the result 

 of a cross between the white Appenzell and the Cha- 

 moisee, both of which it is gradually supplanting at the 

 present day. Although most goat-keepers on the Continent 

 place the Saanen in the foremost rank among Swiss 

 breeds, English fanciers their experience with the Saanen 

 being very limited give undoubted preference to the 

 Toggenburg. This breed is gaining also in favour in the 

 United States, into which country both kinds have of late 

 years been introduced. This goat, as we know it and 

 breed it in England, is a short-haired animal, though in 

 the Canton St. Gallen, where the Toggenburg has its 

 home, a very large proportion are met with having long 

 and almost shaggy coats, especially in winter. It is also 

 supposed very generally to be a hornless kind, and, indeed, 

 in Switzerland polled specimens are the rule rather than 

 the exception, for the simple reason that the kids that are 

 born with horns are usually killed and eaten. Professor 

 Julmy says : " The true Toggenburg should never have 

 horns ; when these occur they are cases of atavism, which 

 are becoming more and more rare." This is shown on 

 page 44 in the illustration of a herd photographed by a 

 visitor to the Toggenburg Valley in 1908. These are typical 

 specimens and all hornless. In England this breed is too 

 rare and too valuable for its patrons to destroy thus any 

 pure stock, and consequently with us horned Toggenburgs 

 are far from uncommon. This goat enjoys a unique dis- 

 tinction in the matter of colour, being uniformly of a light 

 or occasionally rather dark drab, best described as mouse- 

 colour, with white or greyish-white markings. The 

 markings are thus distributed : There is always a streak 

 on each side of the face from right up under the ears 



