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goat-farming profitable without selling any milk, I should 

 state that until I gave up breeding for size and form only 

 and made a speciality of milk there was certainly no profit 

 . in it. This may appear inconsistent considering that the 

 sale of milk forms no part of the returns, but the explana- 

 tion lies in the fact that the prices I realised under the old 

 system when I kept only Anglo- Nubians were insufficient 

 to show a profit. I found that people who applied to me 

 for goats in a general way wanted animals giving from 

 two to three quarts daily, many expecting to obtain them 

 for 2 or 3 apiece. What few I had giving those 

 quantities I deemed it advisable to keep to breed from. 

 When I took up with Toggenburgs and Alpines and 

 won milking prizes with them I soon found breeders 

 anxious for my stock and ready to pay remunerative prices. 



" It should be remarked that in establishing my herd 

 of milkers I spared no expense to obtain the best stock 

 that money could buy. - Amongst these were, as you 

 know, the Alpine goats imported from France, some 

 coming from the Paris show and others from M. 

 Crepin's herd, as well as a fine male Toggenburg from 

 the Jardin d'Acclimatation. Being disappointed in my 

 purchase of the Alpine male that did not arrive, I had to 

 mate my she-goats of that variety with the Toggenburg 

 Sedgemere Paris, and inbreed back to my Alpine blood, 

 with an occasional cross out again to such Toggenburgs as 

 I had already in my herd, taking care always to secure a 

 milking pedigree in each case. I thus established a strain 

 of milking-goats, a few of which I mated with Anglo- 

 Nubians, but preferred to keep, as far as possible, to 

 what I called, in a general way, ' Swiss ' blood. 



" Now, whenever I have any goats to part with I have 

 no difficulty in finding buyers who are willing to pay a 

 good price for a good article. I can therefore truly say 

 that under present conditions of all the stock on my farm, 



