CHAPTER VI 



COMMERCIAL HERDS 



Goat Dairies.— Persons who are interested in goats 

 as a source of income, and in the estahhshment of a goat 

 dairy, meet at the outset two problems that are likely to 

 discourage one's enthusiasm. The first is the recurring 

 problem, scarcity of stock, but determination and suffi- 

 cient funds will in time get together a herd sufficiently 

 nimierous and of sufficiently high average production to 

 insure the success of the undertaking. But the gather- 

 ing together of such a herd cannot be accomplished 

 overnight. 



Problems of Distribution. — The second difficulty to 

 be met is the Health Ordinances of the cities where a 

 goat dairy would find its market. These ordinances, 

 framed, of course, for cows and cow dairies, must l)e met 

 in every detail of arrangement and management l)y the 

 goat dairy. In the ordinances dealing with the produc- 

 tion of milk that is to be sold unpasteurized, the regula- 

 tions require a kind of construction that cannot be faced 

 without an adequate supply of capital at the outset. The 

 initial investment of this capital, together with the diffi- 

 culty encountered in the acquiring of a herd of such num- 

 ])ers and quality as to produce an income proportionate 



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