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there are babies and sick folk in the world, but will con- 

 stantly increase as the knowledge of its benefits becomes 

 more general. JNIore and more goat breeding is appeal- 

 ing to a very intelligent class of people as a profitable 

 and desirable occupation. 



The Demand for Stock. — There are thus created two 

 lines of demand: first, the demand from householders 

 for one or more does as the source of the family milk 

 supply, and, second, a demand for pure bred bucks and 

 foundation stock from which to build up commercial 

 herds and goat milk dairies. 



The Sources of Supply. — Pure Brcds. — What is 

 the relation of this demand to the available supply i The 

 man in the market for pure bred bucks finds a fairly 

 large number of well established and reputable herds, 

 each containing a large enough number of pure l)red 

 does to insure some culling among the buck kids, and a 

 consequent high standard of excellence among those of- 

 fered for sale. Such l;)ucks. either as kids or mature ani- 

 mals, find a I'eady market ; such a good market, in fact, 

 that it is at present one of the temptations of the business 

 to keep for stud pin-poses a good many buck kids that in 

 size and vigor are not really up to proper stud standards. 



The best breeders, with a reputation to maintain, 

 cidl their bucks pretty severely, and buyers are becom- 

 ing with time more exacting in their demands, asking 



