a wonderful result in this way at last, with 17 Ibs. 8 ozs. in three milkings, 

 and such like figures, and thus at a show where we all know goats drop 

 one-fourth of their yield compared with what it was at home. We have 

 goats that have nearly touched 5 quarts in the day, recorded by weight 

 and under observation so that there was no froth or imagination or fairy 

 tales about it. But such goats have been produced by repeatedly crossing 

 and re-crossing with the best imported stock. We have our 'Anglo- 

 Nubians' (a term, I may remark, I originated some 36 years ago and now 

 universally used), our Toggenburgs and our 'Swiss/ but none of these come 

 up to the combination in all three in what we term Anglo-Nubian-Swiss and 

 which embody the good points of these principal (with us) breeds. 



"I have no doubt but that your American goat, when it is produced, in 

 years to come, will equal, if it does not surpass, our own improved speci- 

 mens, but it will take many, many years to become so established as to breed 

 at all true to type color. 



"We in England shall watch your movements in this direction with the 

 greatest interest, for you can do more than we can, inasmuch as your gov- 

 ernment is more reasonable on the score of admitting foreign goats into the 

 country than ours. Our Board of Agriculture persistently refuses to permit 

 us to land more goats from abroad, so we have to do the best we can with 

 such stock as we already possess. I quite believe, therefore, that ere long, 

 with your goat societies to give impetus to the movement, you will obtain 

 some rare milking stocks, but I do hope that you will follow us in this: 

 that you will give no credence to any statements as to extraordinary yields 

 that have not been proved under the observation of judges at shows where 

 the figures obtained may be regarded as authentic. 



"H. S. HOLMES PEGLER, 

 "Hon. Sec. British Goat Society, Kingston on Thames." 



THE MILKING OPERATION 



SOME people might imagine that the operation of milking a goat would 

 be a "back-breaking" task, but it should not be as hard as milking a 

 cow, since it is possible to take the goat anywhere desired. Before 

 milking, the goat about to be milked should be placed upon what the milk 

 goat dairymen call the "milking bench," which consists of nothing more 

 than a platform or strong box about 18 or 20 inches above the ground. 

 It is a very easy matter to entice the doe to mount the bench, as it is 

 customary to feed a little grain while the does is being milked, a handful 

 of oats or corn, in a pan or tin cup placed on the milking bench will be all 

 that is necessary to get the does accustomed to come to the bench to be 

 milked. The operation of drawing the milk is a very easy one, since the 

 milker can either stand up or sit on a stool or chair, in a clean place, away 

 from flies and other objectionable features that confronts the person that 

 milk cows, yet the operating of the udder and teats is in no essential way 

 different to that of milking cows. Sometimes a young doe will object to 

 being milked, and in this case it may be found necessary to secure the doe 

 by the head. A good contrivance often used is called a guillotine board, 



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