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is not allowed to enter the state.* Care should be taken to have 

 imported animals tested by the combined agglutination and comple- 

 ment-fixation tests. 



FEEDING OF MILCH GOATS 



The underlying principles of feeding dairy cattle also apply to the 

 feeding of the milch goat, which is a single-purpose animal bred for 

 milk production. On most of the large goat ranches some concen- 

 trates are fed, barley, oats, wheat, dried beet pulp, and cocoanut meal 

 being used more lafgely than any others in this state. The heavier 

 milking does receive as much as two pounds of concentrates per day 

 when in full flow of milk, but rarely over this amount. At the Uni- 

 versity Farm the goats have been fed a variety of concentrates, viz., 

 cracked corn, linseed meal, and cotton seed meal, besides those men- 

 tioned above. Some of the concentrate mixtures fed at the University 

 Farm are as follows : 



I. 



Parts by weight 



Kolled barley 1 



Wheat bran 1 



Dried beet pulp 1 



Cocoanut meal 1 



II. 



Dried beet pulp 6 



Boiled barley 1 



Wheat bran 1 



Cocoanut meal 2 



III. 



Dried beet pulp 1 



Wheat bran 1 



Oats 1 



Cocoanut meal 1 



IV. 



Dried beet pulp 3 



Kolled barley 1 



Wheat bran 1 



Alfalfa hay is well liked by goats and they do not usually tire of 

 it, but it is well to supplement it with a little grain hay once or twice 

 a week. Both roots and silage are greatly relished by goats. Thistles 

 make a palatable feed when dry preference being for the seeds, how- 

 ever. Pasturing is the ideal method of feeding. Goats do well both 



