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especially for the work. In some parts of Texas 

 a goat dog has been developed by crossing collies 

 and the ordinary hound. This produces a dog 

 of considerable intelligence, speed and size. While 

 many good points have been brought out in rais- 

 ing goats in this country and considerable interest 

 stirred up in the business, there seems to be not 

 the same good business reason for raising goats as 

 for raising sheep. In most localities where sheep 

 thrive they will yield more profit to the owner 

 than goats. It is a particularly difficult and te- 

 dious process to work up a regular demand for an 

 unfamiliar product. Customers are scarce, the 

 article is comparatively little known and the 

 average individual does not know what to do 

 with it, so that considerable hesitation is felt in 

 buying it. This is to some extent the case with 

 goat's milk. Then, too, we have to consider the 

 fact that the use of goats in the production of milk 

 under ordinary eastern conditions, at any rate, is 

 a far more expensive procedure than the mainten- 

 ance of dairy cows. It may be fairly assumed 

 that a goat will eat one-fifth as much as a cow. 

 The productiveness of the average dairy cow, how- 

 ever, is far beyond five times that of the goat. 

 Moreover, in so far as freedom from tuberculosis 

 is concerned cow's milk may be readily rendered 

 safe by sterilization, pasteurization, clean methods, 

 the use of healthy cows or even by the use of form- 

 alin as recently recommended by Von Behring. 

 In 'putting these strictures on goat raising, it is 

 not intended to discourage any one from entering 

 into the business, but simply to call attention to 

 the fact that goat raising does not always prove 

 profitable and at best only in the hands of skilful 

 men who have had some experience in this line 



