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The Community Herd. — The special form of this 

 institution which would probably find most favor in 

 America would be a cooperative association of all the 

 goat owners in any conununity. Tliis association would 

 purchase the kind of buck, or bucks, most suited to the 

 needs of the group, and hand over the task of caring for 

 the bucks and the breeding to some member that was most 

 fitted for this responsibility. This person would, in addi- 

 tion, give his or her time to the keeping of registry 

 records, to the buying and selling of stock according to 

 the needs of the community, to the cooperative buying 

 of feed, and finally to the raising of the kids. This last 

 could be done very well by the use of cow milk, bought 

 in wholesale quantities and suitably modified, thus in- 

 suring two things, the proper development of the valu- 

 able kids, and the retention of the superior goat milk for 

 the little children of the goat owners. 



If pasture areas were adjacent to such a community, 

 it might take a further lesson from European custom by 

 employing a comnumity herd boy, who would each day 

 collect the does, take them out to graze, and return them 

 to their homes at night. This would be more profitable 

 than staking the does individually, or stall feeding 

 them exclusively. 



All modern life tends more and more toward differ- 

 ent forms of community effort and cooj^eration. 'No 



