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MODERN MILK GOATS 



type, being rather deeply divided with long teats easily 

 grasped. The milk is very rich, richer than the best 

 Jersey cow milk, surpassing the Swiss breeds in this 

 respect. The best records of daily and annual yields do 

 not show such a high average as those established by 



does of the Swiss 

 breeds, although there 

 are many exceptionally 

 heavy milkers fcjund 

 among the pm-e bred 

 and g r a d e Anglo- 

 Nubians. 



The Swiss Breeds. 

 — Saancns and Tog- 

 g e n h u r g s . — The 

 Saanens and Toggen- 

 burg goats are so closely allied in origin and type that 

 it is convenient to describe them as one group. lioth 

 breeds were created by a process of selection from the 

 common Alpine race, and both were selected for the 

 same attributes except in point of coloi'. The Swiss 

 breeds are like the Anglo-Nul)ia]is, rather rangy-, lean 

 animals — a characteristic of all good dairy types — but 

 they have rather less length of limb than the Nubians. 



The Saanen is sometimes said to be a larger goat 

 than the Toggenburg, but it would appear that in our 



Fig. 25. — Anglo-Nubian head. 



