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eight months in the year; but. many will go on milking 

 to within a month of the day they are due to kid again, 

 provided they are thoroughly and regularly milked. Some 

 good milkers, indeed, if they are kept from associating 

 with the male goat, will continue in profit for two or 

 three years. The yield may not be more than a pint a 

 day during winter, but as the animals get on to grass in 

 the spring the udder enlarges and the flow greatly 

 increases, the same goats often giving their two or three 

 pints a day. There are probably many that would do 

 this if their owners chose to let them ; but such a system 

 is seldom practised, and therefore these animals are not 

 usually in profit for more than ten months in the year. 



