lndex.-325 



B. 



Barbellion, Dr., on milk, 200 

 Bark, fondness for, 128, 154 

 Barley, 148 

 Beans, 147 

 Bearnese Goat, 34 

 Beestings, 171, 174, 207 

 Bench for milking, 189 

 Benching at shows, 273 

 Benion's classification, 18 

 Biblical references, 9, 10, 198, 



236 



Billies, 164, 252-260. See He- 

 goats. 



"dagger," 167, 292 



use of term, 252 

 Births, 168 

 Bitches' milk compared with 



goats', 211 

 Black garget, 313 

 Board of Agriculture, 3, 320 

 Boer Goat of Cape Colony, 65 



early importation, 66 

 Bosnian Goat, 20 

 Bossert's (Mr. A. P.) tether, 



J 33> X 34 



Bottle, feeding by, 174 

 Boullaye, Comtesse de la, a 

 maker of goats' milk 

 butter, 217 

 Boz-pasang, 8 

 Bracken as litter, 124 

 Brassey's (Lady) Maltese 



Goats, 56 

 " Breeders' and Exhibitors' 



Record," 167 

 Breeding, 159-171 



age for mating, 161 

 gestation period, 159 

 kidding, treatment after, 



170 



mating, 163 

 number of kids at birth, 



1 60 



oestrum, 162 

 pairing, 163 

 parturition, 168 

 pedigree, importance of, 

 1 66 



Breeding (cont.) : 

 pregnancy, 168 

 rutting season, 159, 164 

 stud-goat, choice of, 164 

 Breeds, 18-91 



choice of, 101 

 Brewers' grains, 148 . 

 British Goat Society, 289-294 : 

 dinner prepared from 



kids' flesh, 237 

 disease peculiar to goats, 

 action of the Society 

 regarding, 304, 309 

 Herd Book and Prize Re- 

 cord, 291 



Kid Register, 293 

 " Monthly Circular," 294 

 objects, 290 

 Presidents, 290 

 recognition of shows, 269 

 shows and showing, 266- 



286 



Stud Goat Register, 293 

 subscriptions, 290 

 British milch goats, 23-32 

 Broadbent, Sir W., on goats' 



milk, 199 

 Bucks, 252-260. See He-goats 



and Stud-goats, 

 collars for young, 213 

 use of term, 252 

 Bull's (Mr. Sheldon) Saanen 



Goats, 49, 50 



Burdett - Coutts' (Baroness) 

 Anglo-Nubians, 29, 

 30, 182, 281, and 

 Frontispiece 

 Angoras, 90 

 patronage of the B.G.S., 



290 

 Butter made from goats' milk, 



217 

 Buying, 98 



C. 



Cake foods, 148 

 Calves, slipping of, 254 

 Cape Colony, Boer Goat of, 

 65 



