with her ability to give milk, the writer has seen does weighing 50 to 60 

 Ibs. that would give more milk than some does weighing twice that amount. 

 However, it is a good plan to regard large size as preferable to small ones 

 when their breeding qualities are equal, for we must look to the develop- 

 ment of the animal at the same time we look to developing the milking 

 qualities. 



The following article written by Dr. S. L. Roberts is of interest along 

 this line: 



"One of these is a three-quarter Toggenburg, and weighs perhaps 

 eighty-five pounds. She has the Toggenburg shape, marks and expression, 

 also color (mouse) except on abdomen, which is grayish-white. Her record 

 for one month, from February 12 to March 12th, is 295 Ibs. and 12 ozs.; 

 for first seven days, from Feb. 12th to Feb. 19th, inclusive, is 67 Ibs. and 

 6 ozs. She increased her milk output from the 20th of February to the 

 17th of March. There may be many other goats in the country of her 

 weight and age (3 years) that do better than this, but it should be con- 

 sidered a very satisfactory yield, I think. This goat comes from a strain 

 that had its origin away back yonder in the stone age, among the Lake 

 Dwellers in Switzerland, or some such date. 



"Another one is a little brown creature two years old, weighing 62 

 pounds, which is ten-sixteenths Toggenburg and six-sixteens Mexican An- 

 gora. Until about three weeks previous to dropping her kid she gave but 

 poor evidence of becoming much of a producer of milk, as the udder was 

 very small and carried high, and her pelvic region showed but meagre 

 depth. Altogether the little thing promised to do but little in the milk- 

 stand. Four or five days prior to kidding the udder began to show some 

 but wasn't large. For so small a doe her doe kid came very large, and I 

 thought I should have to supply its milk in part from another dam. Suf- 

 fice to say her udder developed nicely, and when the milk was drawn it 

 shrank to almost no udder at all. She has now (March 20th) been milking 

 twenty days and has yielded 120 pounds and 12 ounces. Back of these does 

 on their sire's side is the best milch ancestry of which I have any record. 



"Alongside of them is a doe that weighs 128 pounds, which has but 

 one-sixteenth Toggenburg blood, a trace of Alpine, some Mexican, and 

 what not for the rest. She yields 36 ounces a day. Do how I will, I can't 

 get her other than in a condition of grease she is as fat as a Berkshire 

 porker. Size here doesn't 'milk' out." 



Dr. Roberts' 62 Ib. doe with the right kind of breeding gave over 3 

 quarts of milk a day while the 128 Ib. doe with poor breeding gave only 

 about one quart a day. 



As there is only a very few pure-bred Swiss goats in this country and 

 as the Nubian do not thrive here unless cross-bred it is easy to see why it 

 is next to impossible to buy pure-bred stock of these breeds, and where 

 they are offered for sale the price is away beyond their real value as milk 

 producers to the person that wants a goat for milk alone. Breeders will 

 pay fancy prices for them to get new blood but owing to the fact that 

 there has been no Swiss goats imported to this country for many years, 

 (and probably won't be for many years to come) the few pure-bred Swiss 



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