II. GOATS IN CITIES 



THE number of milch-goats exhibited at the last Dairy 

 Show was larger by one-half than has been entered in 

 former years. Many of the animals were highly bred 

 and very handsome creatures, and the quantity and 

 richness of their milk was greater, relatively to their 

 size, even than that of the best Jersey cows. The 

 larger number shown were of the English, Nubian, 

 and Toggenberg breeds. The finest and most domesti- 

 cated of all, the goats of Syria, were not represented ; 

 but those from the herds of Lady Burdett-Coutts and 

 Sir Humphrey de Trafford, President of the British 

 Goat Association some black and tan, others pale- 

 fawn colour, though with very ' goaty ' yellow eyes, 

 and others of broken colour, but with fine glossy coats 

 were all well adapted for modern use in England. It 

 is claimed that the goat is now qualified to be a ' dairy 

 animal ' as much as the cow, that in Germany five goats 

 are kept to every hundred of the human population, 

 and that for poor people, who in rural districts have 



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