182-The 'Book of the Goat. 



Trafford and later to Mr. Sam Woodiwiss. This, a much 

 bigger animal as a goat, at four weeks weighed i81b., 

 increasing to 261b. three weeks later. At two months 

 she registered 3olb., at three months 41 Jib., at four 

 months less ten days she weighed 481b., and at five 

 months 5plb. At ten and a half months this goat measured 

 26in. at shoulder and weighed 83|lb. 



Fig. 30. The well-known Anglo-Nubian Prize-winner Gertie, bred 

 by the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Photographed when a kid. 



Lorna Doone, out of Lollo by Garnet, however, beat 

 both these kids. Her weights were at five days old 81b. 

 9! oz., at eight days plb. n oz., at fifteen days i2lb. 2 oz., 

 at twenty-two days i4lb. 5oz., at twenty-nine days lylb. 

 8oz., at thirty-six days 2ilb. 3oz., and at two months 

 32lb. 13 oz. Yet this was never a very large goat, for 

 when over two years old she only stood 28jin. The 

 Baroness Burdett-Coutts's Gertie (shown as a kid in 

 Fig- 3)> a first-prize winner, which became one of the 

 heaviest goats exhibited, at seven and three-quarter months 

 measured in height 2yin., was 32in. in girth behind the 



