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is best cleaned by having 2 or 3 goats per acre maintained 

 on it. They should be kept within barbed wire hurdle fence 

 4 ft: high to keep them from doing mischief to plantations. 

 They can be kept day and night out, except in the rainy 

 season, when shelter should be provided. Goat's milk being 

 richer than cow's milk and being more easily digested by 

 invalids and children, goat-farming should not be despised 

 as an accessory to dairy-farming. Cow's milk contains about 

 4 per cent, of fat, 4 per cent, of casein and 4 per cent, of milk- 

 sugar j while goat's milk, 7^ per cent, of fat, 5 per cent, of 

 casein and 5 per cent, of sugar, and about 4 per cent, less 

 water. Cream cheeses from goat's milk are excellent. A 

 goat may be bought for a Rupee in some mofussil places, 

 and the skin (weighing, say, 4 Ibs.) afterwards can be sold 

 for a Rupee or even more. All milking goats should be given 

 some gram or pulse to eat, say ^ a Ib. to i Ib. daily, besides 

 coarse herbage. Angoras are the most famous milking 

 goats and their wool is almost as soft as silk. The fleece of 

 each Angora goat (about 3 Ibs. per annum) would bring 

 enough of income to pay for the keep of the animal. 



CHAPTER XCVII. 



CALCULATION OP WEIGHT OF LIVESTOCK. 



A SCERTAIN the girth in inches at the back of the shoul- 

 ders, and the length in inches from the square of the 

 buttock to a point even with the point of the shoulder 

 blades. Multiply the girth by the length and divide the 

 product by 144, which gives the measure in superficial feet. 

 Then multiply the superficial feet by the number of pounds 

 per foot for cattle of different girths, the product of which 



