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ing to the best available bucks, increase the value of her 

 stock, rather than tlieir numbers, so gaining experience 

 and the nucleus of a herd without nnich capital. 



Apprenticcshij). — For the girl wlio must at once 

 earn her living, who has no capital, and who, neverthe- 

 less, is warmly attracted to this field of work, there is 

 still another possibility open. Let her first serve an 

 apprenticeship as an assistant with some established and 

 successful goat' breeder. Women helpers are on the 

 whole preferred to men for this work, and the right kind 

 of a young woman would find no difficulty in obtaining 

 a position in which her support would be insured while 

 she gained experience and knowledge of the business. 

 This gained, let her take in hand in some community 

 where the oi:)portunity offered, the organization of such 

 a community herd as has been suggested in Chapter V. 

 If she were successfid in that undertaking, and her ser- 

 vices were engaged for the management of the breeding, 

 buying, selling and kid raising for the association, she 

 would thus be able, although without capital of her own, 

 to devote herself to the work of her choice, to support 

 herself, and to contribute to the jn-osperity of the com- 

 munity and the health of its children. 



In reviewing the whole field, it would appear that 

 the milk goat had offered to the American woman one 

 of her finest opportunities to develop those qualities 



