136 MILCH GOATS 



charging $3 for pasture. This is about 922 quarts, at a feed cost 

 of about 1.7 cents per quart. 



The Toggenburg doe, Fanette (Fig. 51), is one of the best 

 known milch goats in America. She produced, in one year, 2680 

 pounds of milk, or nearly twenty times her own weight. This is 

 more than half as much as the average cow of this country pro- 

 duces. It was enough milk to supply two families with two 

 quarts per day each for a year. It would make about 100 

 pounds of butter or 268 pounds of cheese. This milk, if sold 

 at 25 cents per quart, would bring $335. In some places goat's 

 milk sells at 50 cents per quart. 



Milk Records 



Breed of Goat Name Wt., Lbs. Milk 



Toggenburg Fanette 136 2680 



Toggenburg Geneva 127 2158 



Toggenburg (half breed) . .Delia 104 1283 



Toggenburg Hedda (2 yr. old) 110 1118 



Saanen (at Geneva, N. Y.) 1845 



The Nature of the Product. — Goat's milk-fat produces 

 rather an inferior butter, especially in color, body and grain, but 

 the milk is said to be remarkably valuable for feeding delicate 

 infants. Milk for such purpose often sells for 25 to 50 ceuts per 

 quart. It also serves as a household milk supply, for cooking 

 purposes as well as milk for direct consumption. 



Composition of Goats' Milk 

 Authority Water Fat Casein and Albumen 



Renesse 85.50 4. SO 5.00 



Land'w intli 85.60 4.60 4.80 



Hoffman 86.19 4.73 3.68 



X. Y. (Geneva Sta.) 87.88 3.82 3.21 



It has been shown that the milch goat will yield a food unit in 

 milk solids fully as economically as a good dairy cow T , if not more 

 so, for the feed consumed and has the added advantage in relish- 

 ing various edible weeds. She also may be pastured on so small 

 a lot or pasture that but for her all of the forage on that area 



