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The hair is usually short and rough, the beard 

 long and heavy. The bucks are tall — over 

 three feet. The race has delicate heads, slen- 

 der necks, long bodies, straight backs, slim 

 legs, and large, tender, 

 hairless udders in the 

 ewes. With good food 

 the production of milk 

 is about si.x quarts a day, 

 though some give seven, 

 eight, or even twelve 

 quarts. The annual pro- 

 duction is from twelve 

 to eighteen hundred 

 quarts, though the goat 

 Betty, belonging to the 

 Breeding Society of 

 Pfungstadt, gave three 

 thousand quarts in one 

 year. 



For this qualit_\- the 

 Sarnen goat has been 

 imported in great num- 

 bers since 1S87 into 

 France, Germany, Bel- 

 gium, Holland, England, 



and even South Africa, and not a few ha\e 

 been brought to the United States. 



The Stvart::i-Hl>o!irg-GHgg!sbi-rg goat comes 

 also from the valley of the Sarnen, especially 

 from the neighborhood of Stockhorn, Erlen- 

 bach, and Schwenten. It is of various colors, 



horns, while others are without them; the pro- 

 duction of milk is about three cjuarts a day. 



The AppcHze/ or Jlat-/icadi-d goat come.?, from 

 the canton of that name ; it is without horns 



Swiss Goats called "de Sarnen" 



much spotted and variegated, sometimes with 

 a black back and a white stomach, or with 

 white stripes and other variations. Some have 



Belgian Goats witikh-t Horns 



and is generally white, though sometimes it 



is dark or spotted. The production of milk is 



about five quarts daily. 



The ToggciiboKig goat is from the canton of 



St. Gall. It is brown, with long white stripes 



on the head ; the legs are white, and it has no 

 horns. It is a very handsome, well- 

 made goat, which produces six quarts 

 of milk daily. 



The Freiburg or Greyers goat and 

 the black-necked goat of tlic Valais 

 are found in the cantons of those 

 names antl in the Tyrol ; the latter 

 breed, which is strong and well made, 

 has the front half of the body black, 

 and the rear half white. Both species 

 are good milkers. According to Pro- 

 fessor Anderegg, of Berne, twenty- 

 six different species of goats are 



found in Switzerland. 



In the Savoy Alps there are very fine goats, 



of which the Mauricnne is the best breed. The 



