120-The 'Book of the Goat. 



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opening or trap-door is valuable as a means of ventilation 

 without a draught. The entrance / should be provided 

 with double doors, so that the top half may be left open 

 whilst the bottom one is shut. 



In cases where a goat-house of this description is 

 actually erected on a goat-farm, for instance another 

 door should be provided either where the step-ladder is 

 now shown at the other end of the passage, or else 

 between the loose box and the milking-bench, C K . One 

 of these doors should then lead to an enclosed yard with 

 a hard dry bottom, whilst the other opens on to the 

 pasture-ground. 



Compartment for 



Besides the stalls for the goats, it is of the greatest 

 importance that some provision should be made for con- 

 fining the kids when separated temporarily from their 

 dams. Such should Consist of little loose boxes about 

 2ft. 6in. wide by 4ft. or 5ft. long and about the same 

 height, or sufficient to prevent the little animals from 

 jumping over. They are best made of narrow boards. 



A Model Goal-house. 



The best-arranged goat-houses of the present day that 

 I have seen are those of Mr. Ravenscroft, at "The 

 Noke," St. Albans, of Mrs. Handley-Spicer, at Kings- 

 bury, N.W., and the more up-to-date, most perfectly 

 fitted goatery of Lady Gertrude Crawford, though, being 

 at "The Mount,"* Lymington, it is practically the joint 

 property of this lady and Lady Arthur Cecil. I have been 

 favoured with photographs of the general view outside 

 and of the interior of this structure. The exterior view 

 (Fig. 12, page 106) shows the main building to accommo- 

 date the full-grown she-goats, the smaller erection to the 

 *The residence of Lord Arthur Cecil. 



