184 The "Book of the Goat. 



the shoulder, and weighed 6olb. ; whilst Polidore, a 

 Toggenburg, at the same age, though only 26Jin. in 

 height, was reported by his owner to weigh 72lb. 



The illustration (Fig. 31) depicts a three-quarter bred 

 Nubian named Bricket Llewellyn, once the property of 

 Mr. Ravenscroft, and one of the finest kids he ever bred. 

 Unfortunately, I have not been able to obtain either 

 weights or measurements in this case. The illustration is 

 introduced chiefly to indicate how a three-quarter-bred 

 Nubian can show all the points of the pure specimen as 

 described in a previous chapter. 



Breeders will find it useful to weigh their young stock 

 periodically and to compare the weights given with some 

 of those here mentioned. Mr. Rothwell-Jackson, of 

 Bolton, who weighed his young stock most systematically 

 and was a constant winner of prizes, arrived at the follow- 

 ing conclusion, as expressed in one of his letters to me : 

 "My weights show one, rather important point, which 

 is that, supposing one does not care to rear more than 

 one kid out of a litter, it by no means follows that it is 

 wise to keep the largest, as sometimes the smallest will 

 prove the best ; but in every case, according to my records, 

 if the smaller animal is going to be the better eventually, 

 it will have overtaken and passed the other before a 

 month has elapsed, so that unless one kid at birth should 

 be very superior indeed to the other, it is safest to let 

 them stay with the dam for at least three or four weeks, 

 to form a more correct idea as to which is likely to be 

 the better." 



