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form than converted into meat by feeding it to the kids. 

 However, if circumstances arise where it is not prac- 

 ticable to milk the does and to market their milk, and 

 the buck kids are left to rm^ with the dams, there are 

 certain points to bear in mind for marketing the meat. 

 It may be said in passing that the meat of a kid or 

 young wether is delicious — no one who has ever tasted 

 it, properly prepared, can maintain any prejudice 

 against it, while our foreign population regard it as the 

 greatest delicacy. 



Marketing. — In marketing the kids, then, it is best 

 to deal directly with a group of Italians, or to sell 

 through one of the Italian commission houses which 

 exist in most of our larger cities, thus assuring oneself 

 of a price as good as possible to obtain. Another 

 point to be borne in mind: all Italians, Greeks, Portu- 

 guese and other foreigners from the Catholic countries, 

 make a special effort to obtain for their Easter celebra- 

 tion a young kid. This seems to be a dim, far-off sur- 

 vival of the Paschal kid of the Hebrew feast. However 

 that may be, a kid ready for eating at that time com- 

 mands nearly twice the price that it does ordinarily. It 

 must be at least three weeks old, but not more than three 

 months, and still suckling. A twenty-five-pound kid is 

 the size preferred. So dependable is this market that 

 persons raising kids for meat would do well to bear it in 



