200 The 'Book of the Goat. 



(2) amongst these 300,000 goats there is probably not one 

 affected with tuberculosis, whilst amongst the cows, 

 according to whether the estimate be made by an optimist 

 or a pessimist, there might be anything between 50 per 

 cent, and 75 per cent, of animals suffering from or show- 

 ing signs of this disease; (3) the goat is almost immune 

 from tuberculosis, whilst the cow never is." 



M. Crepin took considerable pains to obtain opinions 

 from veterinary authorities, and especially from those 

 practising in the Mont d'Or district, where goat-keeping 

 is general. He quotes M. Mathis, professor in the 

 Veterinary College at Lyons ; M. Coquet, a veterinary 

 surgeon at Vaise having a large experience as inspector 

 of butchers' meat in the slaughter-houses of Lyon-Vaise; 

 and many others. All agree in the evidence they give as 

 to the extremely rare instances in which tuberculosis has 

 been discovered in the carcases of goats, for there goats' 

 flesh is largely consumed .as well as goats' milk. M. 

 Provent, veterinary surgeon at Fontaine-sur-Saone (Rhone), 

 is reported to have written : " I have never met with a 

 case of tuberculosis amongst the goats of Mont d'Or 

 during the whole of my twenty -four years of practice in 

 that region." 



Coats' MilK. O. CotvS 



The researches of Dr. Barbeliion, of Paris, on the 

 digestibility of goats' milk as compared with cows' milk, 

 reference to which was made at the International Congress 

 of Medicine in that city, explain the reasons why 

 the former is more digestible than the latter : According 

 to the results of experiments made, it was ascertained (i) 

 that the curd of cows' milk forms a dense, adhering mass, 

 which, by agitation, separates into clots that are but 

 slightly soluble. The curd of goats' milk, on the other 

 hand, forms into very small, light flakes, which are soft, 



