FOOD, PURE FOOD, AND FRESH FOOD 3$ 



disgraceful manner, the does are so small that they 

 can be put into any automobile and quickly taken to 

 a buck for breeding. By breeding one doe so that it 

 kids in the spring and the other in the fall, two does 

 will furnish a supply of milk the year round. When 

 fresh, our does gave us about three quarts of milk 

 daily. 



Among the great advantages of the goats was the 

 great reduction in the labor of milking and caring 

 for them. To milk a quart or two morning and eve- 

 ning proved a trifling job in comparison with having 

 to fill a ten-quart pail twice a day. And the goats, un- 

 like the cow, kept themselves clean. As a matter of 

 fact, they are rather fastidious in their habits. They 

 will not eat grain or hay which has been trampled 

 under foot, though they will eat almost any kind of 

 vegetation and are fond of eating the bark off of trees. 

 This partiality for bark probably explains their fond- 

 ness for paper, most of which is made of wood pulp. 

 They will probably eat the paper off of a tin can, but 

 the notion that they will eat the tin itself seems to me 

 a silly superstition. 



One disadvantage of goats has to do with butter. 

 The fat globule in goat's milk does not separate or rise 

 as readily as that in cow's milk. If butter is to be made, 

 a cream separator has to be used. With this piece of 

 apparatus to overcome this disadvantage, it seems to 

 me that for the small family all the advantages lie on 

 the side of the goat. We found butter-making, using 

 an efficient rotary churn, a most profitable activity. 



