Index. 333 



Plants, food,. 1 28, 144, 145 



to be avoided, 146 

 Playfair, Lord, on tubercu- 

 lous milk, 199 

 Plessis, Huart du, quoted; 



18, 207 



P.liny quoted, 15, 16, 17 

 Pliocene fossils, 5 

 Points of a good milker, 92 

 Poisoned milk, 209 

 Poisonous plants, 146 

 Poisons, 314 

 Poor man's cow, i 

 Potatoes, 143 

 Pots for cheese, 227 

 Pregnancy, 168 

 Preserving skins, 245 

 Prices, 103, 104 

 Prince Consort's Shaw Farm 



at Windsor, 59 

 Prize cards and rosettes, 286 

 Prize Record of the B.G.S., 



291 



Prizes at shows, 273 

 Protecting gardens, &c., from 



goats, 137 

 Prevent, M., on goats' milk, 



200 

 Puppies, goats' milk for, 211' 



reared under goats, 260 

 Purchasing, 98 

 Pure breed v. cross-breed, 87 

 Puzzle, the, a substitute for 



the tether, 136 

 Pyrenean Goat, 34 



Arousillen la Grande, 37, 



140 



Q- 



Quality, judging, 278 



R. 



Racks for hay, 112-114 

 Railway, carriage by, 285 

 Rain and its effects, 129 

 Rations, 150 



for kids, 176, 177 



j Ravenscroft's (Mr. B.) Anglo- 

 Nubians, 29-31, 164, 

 165, 183 



Rearing kids, 172-183 : 

 by hand, 173, 175 

 cost, 172 

 exercise, 179 

 meals, 176, 177 

 measurements, 181 

 rations, 176, 177 

 separating young from 



dam, 174 

 tethering, 179 

 treatment after weaning, 



177 



weaning, 173 

 weights, 181 



Rolleston, Prof., on lake- 

 dwellers' goats, 6 

 Roquefort cheese, 221 

 Rothwell-Jackson, Mr., on 



weights, 184 

 Royal Agricultural Society's 



Shows, 269-289 

 Ruffec cheese, 228 

 Riitimeyer, Prof., on the 

 goats of the lake- 

 men, 6 

 Rutting season, 159, 164 



Saanen goat, 48, 49 



as a milker, 50 



cross-breeding, 87 

 Sacc, Dr., on Nubians, 60 

 Saddle goat, 51 

 St. Marcelin cheese, 224 

 Salt, 149, 150 

 Sanskrit names, 8 

 Sawdust as litter, 124 

 Saxony goat, 53 

 Scent, hircine, 252, 256 

 Schedules, 271 



Schreiner, Mr. S. C., on the 

 "Angora Goat," 65, 

 68, 69 



Schwarzenburg - Guggisberger 

 goat, 42 



