136 MILCH GOATS 



charging $3 forpasture. 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. 



]Iilk Records 



Breed of Goat Name Wt., Lbs. Milk 



Toggenburg Fanette 1.36 2680 



Toggenburg '. . . . Geneva 12Y 21.58 



Toggenburg (half breed) . .Delia 104 128.3 



Toggenburg Hedda (2 yr. old) 119 1118 



Saanan (at Geneva, X. 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 cents per 

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

 purposes as well as milk for direct consumption. 



Composition of Goats' Milk 



Authority Water Fat Casein and Albumen Sugar Ash 



Renesse 85.50 4.80 5.00 4.00 .70 



Landwinth S.5.G0 4.60 4.80 4.30 



Hoflman 86.19 4.73 3.68 4.50 .90 



N. Y. (Geneva Sta.) 87.88 3.82 3.21 4.54 .55 



It has been sho^\Ti that the milch goat will yield a food unit in 

 milk solids fully as economically as a good dairy cow, 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 



