PREFACE 



The much ridiculed goat of our back alleys is rapidly 

 disappearing, and in her place has come to stay the 

 trim well bred milk goat of Swiss and English origin, 

 an attractive animal in appearance, and highh^ efficient 

 as a milk producer. She has entered the field of Ameri- 

 can stock breeding in response to several different and 

 definite needs of modern American life. 



The passing of cheap and abundant land, the conse- 

 quent crowded and intensive conditions of agriculture, 

 and the further consequence of soaring prices for dairy 

 products, have created a demand for an animal that pro- 

 duces milk more economically than the cow and under 

 conditions where a cow could not be kept. This demand 

 the well bred goat fulfils. 



The spread of tuberculosis, a disease whose germ is 

 often carried by the cow and her milk, creates a demand 

 for a milk producing animal that is resistant to this dis- 

 ease. Again, the goat answers the need. 



The statistics of infant mortality, at last frankly 

 .faced by our modern leaders of social welfare, call for a 

 food that will save the lives of children who cannot sur- 

 vive on the general substitutes for mother's milk. This 



