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and Egypt they fetch as low as $4. In England prices rule high 

 for milch goats, ranging up to as high as $40 for selected home- 

 bred, or to $100 for the pure Toggenburger. At the present 

 time a great deal of attention is being devoted to the milch goat, 

 and this may result in materially higher prices. 



Importations of milch goats to America began in 1893, when 

 Mr. W. A. Shafor of Ohio brought to this country four Tog- 

 genburg goats which he purchased in England. In May, 1904, 

 Mr. F. S. Peer of New York imported 16 Toggenburg and 10 

 Saanen goats to this country for Messrs. W. J. Cohill of Mary- 

 land, R. N. Riddle of New Jersey, W. M. Decker of New York, 

 and S. K. Bayley of Massachusetts. Mr. Cohill also secured two 

 goats from Carl Hagenback at the World's Fair, St. Louis, in 

 1904, that Hagenback had brought from the Black Forest of 

 Germany. These are supposed to be Schwarzwald goats. In 

 1905 Professor Thompson imported 68 Maltese goats, as noted 

 on a preceding page. 



