206 The 'Book of the Goat. 



The total solids in the milk of the Anglo-Nubian in 

 this table, however, are extraordinary, even for goats' 

 milk, and might be explained by the fact that the goat 

 had been a very long time in profit ; but the same animal 

 the previous year, when it had been in milk only 179 days, 

 gave the following figures : fat, 7.52 ; other solids, 9.32 ; 

 total solids, 16.84; leaving only 83.16 for water. At this 

 show the same goat won first prize, besides the Baroness 

 Burdett-Coutts's Challenge Cup as the best for inspection 

 and milking combined. Another Anglo-Nubian to take 

 a more average specimen named Sparaxis, which was 

 placed after the third-prize winner in this competition, 

 gave milk showing the following figures : Butter-fat, 

 5.81; solids other than fat, 9.47; total solids, 15.28; 

 water, 84.72. 



In M. Crepin's book "La Chevre" a number of 

 analyses are given of the milk of various breeds of goats 

 under specified systems of feeding. In most of the cases 

 examined the milk of French or Swiss Alpines and of 

 other breeds of Swiss goats shows the butter-fat to be 

 under 4 per cent. It may here be stated that 4 per cent, 

 has been fixed by the British Goat Society as the minimum 

 allowable in awarding points for quality without deduc- 

 tions, in the same way that 3 per cent, is the Dairy Show 

 minimum for cows' milk. The poorest milk in butter-fat 

 in the tables just referred to is that given by a herd of 

 Swiss Alpines, for which only 2\ per cent, of this con- 

 stituent is recorded. In another herd of this breed, con- 

 taining fifteen head, all of which were, it is stated, sub- 

 jected to a special regimen as regards food in order to ob- 

 tain a milk the composition of which approached more that 

 of human milk, the butter-fat is given as 4 per cent., the 

 casein as 1.73 per cent., and sugar 5.4 per cent. The 

 richest in butter- fat of all the breeds examined is that of 

 the pure Nubian, three samples of different individuals 



