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or in the pasture. About 45 per cent of them are does, 

 which are retained for milk purposes. Thoroughbred 

 bucks are usually sold, and always for high prices, but 

 the grades or the common varieties are destined to serve 

 as Sunday roasts. There is no finer meat than a kid 

 roast — somewhere between veal and lamb, and a little 

 better than either. 



Next to economy of space, the goat's claim on the 

 home gardener is economy in feeding. Very careful 

 experiments were made at the State University Farm in 

 California, and it was found that, buying every ounce 

 of feed, the cost averaged only about three cents a day. 

 One goat yielded an average of three quarts of milk a 

 day for 310 days; and another over three quarts a 

 day for the same period. In the first case the cost of 

 the feed was about one cent per quart ; and in the other 

 less than a cent. This was on the basis of pre-war 

 prices of feed, which were normal. 



There is no particular difference between the quality 

 of the milk of the thoroughbred and that of the common 

 "Nanny" when they are equally well cared for. This 

 is so true that one of the greatest breeders and advo- 

 cates of thoroughbred stock has written: 



"Despite my association with the Toggenburg breed, 

 my sentiments can be most truthfully summed up by 

 borrowing the words of the popular song: 



'Any little goat that's a nice little goat 

 Is the right little goat for me.' " 



There is, however, an important advantage in the 

 thoroughbred in the matter of quantity, not only of the 

 average daily yield, but also in the period of lactation. 



