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libuse, well ventilated, for their winter's home. 

 They need a good fence, since they will climb 

 and creep out whenever they have opportunity. 

 They are quite often tied in stalls as cows are 

 tied, though it would seem better to give them 

 clean, roomy pens. They should be milked reg- 

 ularly three times a day by the same person. 

 They should be taken to a clean, odorless place 

 to be milked. Previous to milking the udder 

 and teats should be wiped quite clean. No tu- 

 berculous person should milk either goats or 

 cows. 



Milch goats are very prolific, having many 

 pairs of twins and triplets. The Nubian goat, 

 one of the best milking kinds, is said to have 

 dropped eleven kids in one year. The period of 

 gestation is about 155 daj's. 



Just how to majiage the kids when their 

 mother's milk is needed for human consumption 

 the writer does not see. Probably to wean them 

 after the age of ten days, feeding them with the 

 bottle a portion of their mother's milk and by 

 substituting other foods, as bran with a little 

 oilmeal in it, oats and good hay, or grass in 

 summer would solve that problem. 



It must be confessed that the interest in milch 

 goats is mostly speculative at present in Amer- 

 ica, since there are so few here and the source 

 of supply being Germany, Switzerland, France, 

 and perhaps Malta or Italy, where contagious 

 animal diseases, notably foot-and-mouth dis- 

 ease, prevail, our regulations forbid the impor- 

 tation of goats or any other cud-chewing ani- 

 mals. There is hope that some way may be 



