BY-PRODUCTS 

 OF ANGORA GOATS. 



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HE Angora goat should not be classed 

 with milch animals. As a rule the does 

 give a sufficient amount of milk to 

 nourish the kid or kids. The more 

 common blood there is in the goat the 

 better milch animal she is. However, some Angoras 

 have been milked, and the milk is as rich as that of 

 the common goat. A quart of milk a day may be 

 considered a fair average for a fresh milch Angora 

 doe. It has been suggested that because the milk of 

 the goat contains a heavy percentage of fat, it is a 

 proper substitute for mothers' milk for babies. This 

 is probably a mistake, as that part of the milk which 

 is the hardest for the baby to digest is the protein, and 

 it will be observed that in the following table of 

 analysis submitted, the percentage of protein in 

 goat's milk and in cow's milk is about the same, and 

 that it is considerably larger than in mother's milk. 

 A very desirable feature in goat's milk is that the fat 

 is distributed throughout the milk, and that it does 

 not readily separate from the milk This would 

 assist in the assimilation of the fat by an infant. 

 Some experiments made with coffee demonstrate that 

 it requires half the quantity of goat's milk to produce 



