"Blatchford's Lamb Meal," when fed to does just before the delivery of 

 kids and also after kids are born, is excellent for conditioning does and for 

 increasing their milk flow. 



Such roots as parsnips, potatoes, carrots, swedes, mangolds, and espe- 

 cially turnips, are an excellent feed. They must be clean and free from dirt 

 or decay. Mangolds should not be fed earlier than the first of January, as 

 they will sometimes produce scours if fed too soon after pulling. Clean 

 and fresh refuse from the kitchen, such as potato, apple and turnip peel- 

 ings, pumpkin and squash rines, cabbage leaves and crusts of bread are 

 eagerly eaten. For one or two milch goats the waste from a moderate 

 sized garden will supply the greater part of the food. In thinning out 

 carrots, beets, turnips or suckers from sweet corn and cabbage that did not 

 head, the lettuce and spinach that have bolted, lawn and hedge clippings. 

 In fact nearly everything that is clean can be fed, but of course judgment 

 should be exercised in feeding to does that are giving milk, anything that 

 might impart an unpleasant taste in the milk, just as would be the case 

 with a dairy cow. It must be understood that a goat will eat many rank 

 plants that a cow will not. 



Little is necessary to say in regard to the feeding of the buck, other 

 than that he should have plenty of rough feed, and occasionally a small 

 amount of grain, especially when serving a large number of does. If the 

 dairyman has a brush or weed patch, let the buck reign there. 



The kids should have some grain until they are four or five months 

 old, but will need very little after that if given plenty of roughage, until 

 they are old enough to deliver kids. 



The fact must be borne in mind that if satisfactory results are to be 

 obtained in milch goat raising, the animals must receive the same rational 

 treatment that is received by other livestock when best results are sought. 

 The milch goat is a hardy animal to be sure, but this characteristic only 

 enables it to respond the more quickly and satisfactorily to careful and 

 judicious treatment. 



Some of the favorite grasses for goats are sheeps' fescue, a short, fine 

 grass which grows in a tuft at its roots and pushes up delicate stems rarely 

 exceeding a foot in height. Also the hard fescue and the red fescue, the 

 meadow foxtail, the wild oat, rye grass, and especially the sweet scented 

 vernal grass. All these grasses impart a fine flavor to the milk. In fact 

 there is scarcely any grass that milch goats will eat that will in any way 

 injure the flavor of the milk. 



Raise alfalfa and oats, 

 Children and goats, 



"Assimilate the good." 



WATERING AND SALTING 



THE milch goat might be termed a "crank" in the matter of choosing 

 its drinking water. It has been noted where animals have been 

 nearly famished for want of water, when a supply was within easy 

 reach but had become slightly polluted. They want it fresh and absolutely 

 free from any kind of filth. Does giving milk should be induced to drink 



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