on our place, and we took advantage of every 

 possibility to reach the goal. After the sec- 

 ond generation the original buck was sold, and 

 one from an entirely different strain bought, 

 as we feared to risk in-breeding further than 

 that. And again after the fifth generation a 

 change was made. Of course the returns 

 had been growing larger each year during the 

 process of grading-up. After the first litter 

 the males were kept instead of being sold as 

 kids. Then each generation was sold after 

 their second lot of kids were weaned. And 

 the annual shearing, with the increasing num- 

 ber of does and wethers, commenced to be of 

 marketable value after the third generation. 

 Milk we made no attempt to sell, for having 

 discovered its beneficial effect on infants and 

 delicate animals, it seemed unwise to sell the 

 small quantity we had, when all the kids were 

 kept, even at twenty-five cents a quart. So, 

 during the term of transition, cash returns did 

 little more than pay for care and winter food, 

 the real profit being in the amount of land 



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