CHAPTER VII 



THE MARKET FOR MILK GOAT PRODUCTS 



Surplus Stock. — The most valuable product of the 

 milk goat, whether of the single family doe or the large 

 range herd, is, of course, the increase of young does. A 

 good deal has been said concerning the ready market 

 which good milk stock commands, and in the last chapter 

 detailed suggestions were made as to the methods of mar- 

 keting that are open to the range breeder in remote dis- 

 tricts. In general the same methods will be employed by 

 the owner of the dairy herd and the pure bred herd. 



A dairy herd, in order to distribute its milk, must be 

 reasonably near centers of population, where land and 

 feed are correspondingly high in price. Therefore, to 

 operate at a profit, the stock must be the very best, and 

 will consequently command the highest prices. So that 

 in addition to the methods employed by the remote 

 breeder, the owner of pure- bred, high producing, ^ery 

 ^'aluable stock must have his animals always on exhibit, 

 so to speak, in their own quarters, for a purchaser who 

 is buying such animals naturally expects to see them 

 first if possible. Such a breeder, too, must regularly ex- 

 hibit his animals in live stock shows, and must be pre- 

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